We all saw what happened Friday night, as the Orioles came back and defeated the Minnesota Twins after being down 6-0. Six runs isn't the greatest comeback of all time, however there's certainly a difference between that and being down by one or two. I think that in all sports there comes a point in a game where a team feels somewhat secure in its lead. In the NFL, I'd say that a 21-point lead is fairly safe, and the same would be true of a 15-point lead in the NBA. Minnesota had the...

In the third inning yesterday, Adam Jones hit a line drive homer. It got out of the park in a hurry. When I say in a hurry, no home run hit in the major leagues this season exited the park faster. According to ESPN Stats and Information, that homer had a flight time of 3.09 seconds, the quickest of any home run this season. Does any play-by-play guy even have a call that fast? While the homer was impressive maybe an at-bat Jones had last Wednesday in the first inning of a game was impressive...

MINNEAPOLIS - Orioles manager Buck Showalter spent most of his postgame session with the media this afternoon talking about Wei-Yin Chen's injury and whether it's regarded as serious at this point. Showalter is being optimistic. That's the only approach he's going to take until finding out more about the injury on Monday. "I was just talking to him about it," Showalter said following a 6-0 victory over the Twins. "He just felt it the last two or three pitches. I didn't hear oblique,...

It's hard to see any moment in this afternoon's 2-1 Nationals loss looming larger than Davey Johnson's decision to pinch hit for Gio Gonzalez leading off the bottom of the seventh inning. The Nationals held a 1-0 lead at the time, and Gonzalez had thrown seven scoreless innings, needing just 86 pitches to do so. He still appeared to have plenty left in the tank, but with the Nats managing almost nothing offensively and with a rested Drew Storen and Rafael Soriano in the bullpen, Johnson...

MINNEAPOLIS - Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen is hoping that today's injury is nothing more serious than cramping on his right side. Chen is listed as having a strained right oblique, but he will be re-evaluated Monday in Baltimore. Chen said he felt the discomfort while facing his last batter, Eduardo Escobar, in the bottom of the fifth inning, and it intensified on the final pitch. Meanwhile, Jake Arrieta didn't make his scheduled start today with Triple-A Norfolk because of a tender...

The last inning was not exactly how catcher Kurt Suzuki wanted it to go. A double steal attempt by the Cubs was set up Alfonso Soriano racing to third base in the top of the ninth of a 1-1 game. Suzuki's throw to third base hit Welington Castillo's bat. The ball rolled into foul territory, which allowed Soriano to score the go-ahead run. Later, a called third strike and subsequent argument with home plate umpire John Tumpane got him tossed. Who could have thought the Nationals appeared...

The Orioles won another game. They won another series. They won again on the road. But did they lose a starting pitcher? Wei-Yin Chen pitched five shutout innings today in the Orioles' 6-0 win over Minnesota, but he left the game with a strained right oblique. Chen appeared on his way to going deep into a game for an O's staff that could have used it. Orioles starters had pitched just eight innings in this series and had allowed 16 earned runs over 14 innings in the last three games. Now...

MINNEAPOLIS - The Orioles' rotation is dealing with another injury. Wei-Yin Chen left today's start after five innings with a strained right oblique. Tommy Hunter has replaced him. Chen appeared to be reaching for his right side as he walked to the dugout after retiring Eduardo Escobar to end the bottom of the fifth. He allowed five hits over five scoreless innings, with no walks, three strikeouts and a wild pitch. Chen threw 73 pitches, 50 for strikes, in his second-shortest outing of the...

Davey Johnson jokingly calls himself "Captain Hook" because of his quick calls to the bullpen. We got another Captain Hook sighting at Nationals Park this afternoon. Johnson decided to go to his bench with Gio Gonzalez set to lead off the bottom of the seventh inning. Gonzalez had thrown just 86 pitches through seven scoreless innings, and he had bounced back from a shaky sixth inning to retire the side in order in the seventh. Instead of sticking with his starter, however, Johnson...

MINNEAPOLIS - You can't stop Manny Machado, you can only hope to hold him to two hits. Machado has posted his 17th multi-hit game of the season today, collecting a single in the first inning and a double in the fifth. There's more with Machado, of course. He now has 12 multi-hit games in his last 19, with nine doubles, a triple, three homers and 13 RBIs. He's 33-for-82 in that stretch, which comes out to a .402 average. Machado has hit safely in 11 of his last 12 road games, batting .453...