Tommy Hunter is warming in the Orioles' bullpen and will replace Freddy Garcia in the seventh inning. Garcia is charged with two runs and six hits in six innings, with one walk, three strikeouts and two home runs. He threw 83 pitches, 52 for strikes. A scoring change resulted in an extra hit off Garcia. Credit Josh Hamilton with a single in the first inning and remove the error from shortstop J.J. Hardy. Garcia has turned in four quality starts out of his eight starts with the Orioles....

The high Single-A Potomac Nationals announced late Monday that left-hander Sammy Solis has been placed on the disabled list. Right-hander Brian Rauh was called up from low Single-A Hagerstown Suns to take the roster spot. Solis, ranked as the No. 8 Nationals prospect by Baseball America, has started four games this season for the P-Nats since his return from rehabbing Tommy John surgery: May 21, 27, June 1 and 6. He had been rehabbing for months at the Nationals' extended spring training...

The Nationals need their leader back. Injuries hit the Nationals pretty hard this season. Bryce Harper being out has made it difficult for the offense to look scary. Every opposing pitcher has to contend with how to pitch Harper or pitch around him. Several times when others were not rolling, Harper was the igniter for the offense. His homer when others can't even connect on a base hit made all the difference to altering the momentum of a game and giving the Nationals a chance. Stephen...

It was not exactly a routine win, and it ended a long time after it started, but the Orioles topped the Los Angeles Angels tonight, 4-3, to take the series and homestand opener at Camden Yards. The teams, and a some hearty fans, waited out a rain delay of two hours and 14 minutes in the last of the sixth, and the O's grounds crew got this field playable when at times that task looked almost impossible. For the fourth time in five starts, Freddy Garcia gave up two earned runs or less. He went...

Finally, the umpires have decided that conditions aren't conducive to playing baseball. Holding a swim meet, perhaps, but not playing baseball. Tonight's game was halted at 8:46 p.m., with two outs in the sixth inning and the Orioles leading 4-2. They picked the right time to rally. Nate McLouth bunted for a hit leading off the inning and stole second, the 22nd base he's swiped in 23 attempts this season and the 19th in a row. This is the first time, however, that he used the...

So maybe you can't knock 95 mph fastballs out of Nats Park. Can't glove line drives at the hot corner like Ryan Zimmerman either? Well, that's OK because MASN's giving you the chance to challenge Zimmerman at your own game. With the CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield Ryan Zimmerman Fan Challenge, we're giving you the chance to submit a video to our Facebook page challenging the third baseman to anything. Think you can eat more hot wings than him in a minute? Can you paint a better picture...

Technically, tonight's game didn't start on time. First pitch was 7:10 p.m. However, the weather had nothing to do with it. Games here rarely begin at 7:05 p.m. The sky is ominous. And so is Mike Trout, who homered onto the flag court in right field with one out in the third inning to give the Angels a 1-0 lead. Freddy Garcia had retired five straight since walking Mark Trumbo with two outs in the first. He had a 7.71 ERA in the first inning this season, and a 6.43 ERA in the...

At 27-36, the Los Angeles Angels are not at all where they expected to be. Where they are is third place in the American League West, but 10 ½ games out of first as they open a series at Camden Yards tonight. The Angels are eighth in the AL in runs scored and 10th in team ERA. Los Angeles ranks 10th in starting pitcher ERA at 4.49 and the Orioles are 12th at 4.88. Los Angeles dug an early hole with a 2-8 start. The Angels recently had an eight-game win streak that pulled them within...

Is Ryan Flaherty swinging and hitting better since he returned from Triple-A? The stat sheet says yes, but he didn't have much to out-perform of course. Flaherty was batting .133 when he was sent to the minors after the game on May 18. In nine games since returning to Baltimore, he is batting .276 (8-for-29) with two multi-hit games, two doubles and two RBIs. Does Buck Showalter see signs of progress for Flaherty on offense since his return? "Little bit," Showalter said. "He has hit...

Brian Roberts was back in the home clubhouse at Camden Yards today. It has been a while. He hasn't played in a game since the third day of the season and underwent surgery May 9 to repair his right hamstring. He made it clear how important it was to rejoin the team over the weekend during the Tampa series and how that provides him a nice mental lift in the final stages of his latest rehab. "It's great to be back," Roberts said. "You feel kind of isolated on an island down there (in...