As the Orioles get set to face R.A Dickey for the second time this year today, it will also be their fourth game this season against a 2012 Cy Young Award winner. The Orioles scored 21 runs and went 3-0 in those first three games against Dickey and Tampa Bay's David Price. On opening night, they beat Tampa Bay 7-4 when Price started, and they won again April 18, 10-6, in 10 innings in another Price start. Five days later, they beat Dickey and Toronto, 4-3. While they didn't pin a personal...

Danny Valencia is serving as the Orioles' designated hitter today. He won't be optioned to Triple-A Norfolk to make room for pitcher Steve Johnson. Yamaico Navarro is starting at second base again today, and Chris Snyder is behind the plate. For the Orioles Nate McLouth LF Manny Machado 3B Nick Markakis RF Adam Jones CF Chris Davis 1B J.J. Hardy SS Danny Valencia DH Yamaico Navarro 2B Chris Snyder CC Freddy Garcia RHP For the Blue Jays Melky Cabrera LF Jose Bautista RF Edwin...

The Orioles needed to sleep fast last night, as manager Buck Showalter says, with a 1:07 p.m. game today against the Toronto Blue Jays. Freddy Garcia will make his fifth start for the Orioles, which may be four more than some folks anticipated when the Orioles first selected his contract from Triple-A Norfolk. Garcia has gone at least six innings in three of his outings, but he's still searching for his first win as an Oriole. He took a perfect game into the seventh inning in his debut in...

Was it seriously 53 degrees at first pitch last night on the Friday before Memorial Day? Just want to make sure I'm remembering things correctly and I didn't just wake up from some kind of sick dream. In case you missed it last night, the Nationals will be making a roster move today, selecting the contract of infielder Jeff Kobernus from Triple-A Syracuse and designating right-hander Yunesky Maya for assignment. Maya came to the Nats with a decent amount of fanfare in July of 2010. He was...

Manny Machado is the topic of plenty of Orioles stories and headlines these days, and rightfully so. Some other topics in the news about the club recently include its bullpen struggles and the call-up of Kevin Gausman. But while all these legit stories have taken up recent headlines, Chris Davis just continues to have a remarkable year. He possibly could be leading or close to leading the American League in the Triple Crown categories right now if not for Miguel Cabrera. After hitting another...

When reporters pointed out to Davey Johnson before today's game that it looked like he was sporting a few days' worth of facial hair growth, the Nationals manager joked that he wasn't going to shave until the Nats started hitting. After the Nats put up five runs in a 5-2 win over the Phillies, Johnson told a couple of his players that he thought it was now OK for the beard to go. "They said, 'It's not coming off yet,' " Johnson said with a smile. "I might leave it on. See if this is...

Jordan Zimmermann wanted to keep it quiet. On the day he was supposed to pitch, the right-hander woke up in some pain. His neck wasn't feeling so good, but he didn't want to make a big deal about it with a big game against the Phillies just hours away. Manager Davey Johnson knew something was up when he saw Zimmermann in the clubhouse. "Zimm woke up with a stiff neck today," Johnson said. "He kind of hid it from me. I knew he had it. Nothing is ever hidden from the manager. "After...

With the Nationals already working with a short bench and Danny Espinosa needing to sit at least two to three days (and possibly much more than that) with a broken bone in his right wrist, the Nats decided to add another position player to their 25-man roster. Infielder Jeff Kobernus will have his contract selected from Triple-A before tomorrow's game, manager Davey Johnson announced after tonight's 5-2 win over the Phillies, and right-hander Yunesky Maya will be designated for assignment to...

The Orioles scored three runs just three batters into tonight's game and the early offensive onslaught continued into the third inning as they bashed their way to a 10-6 win at Toronto tonight. Amid the Orioles hitting a season-high four homers and tying their season high for runs, Manny Machado put his name in the record book again when he singled in the seventh inning. It was his fifth straight road game with three hits or more. According to Elias, the only other player younger than 21...

Ten times this season, Jordan Zimmermann has toed the rubber for the Nationals. In nine of those 10 starts, Zimmermann has allowed two or fewer runs. In the one outlier, he allowed a whopping three runs, and that was in a complete-game victory over the Marlins. Eight of the 10 times Zimmermann has gotten a start this season, he's worked at least seven innings. He's failed to get through the sixth just once. The more you look at Zimmermann's numbers this season, the more impressive those...