The Orioles' bullpen turned in three scoreless innings tonight in relief of starter Chris Tillman to complete a 5-3 victory over the Royals before 12,344 at Camden Yards. The Orioles have their first four-game winning streak of the season. Troy Patton retired the side in order in the seventh. Darren O'Day struck out the first two batters in the eighth before allowing an infield hit to Eric Hosmer and hitting Lorenzo Cain on the leg. Brian Matusz entered the game to face left-handed...

Miguel Cabrera's incredibly impressive start to the season continues. Jordan Zimmermann's incredibly impressive scoreless innings streak comes to an end. The Tigers took a 1-0 lead in the top of the third inning on Cabrera's RBI single to left, scoring Torii Hunter. Cabrera now has 37 RBIs on the season, best in the majors, and he's now batting .387, also tops in the big leagues. He's decent, I guess. That run is the first one Zimmermann has allowed in more than 20 innings. The...

For the third time in his last four games, Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy has hit a home run. Hardy deposited an 80-mph slider from Royals starter Luis Mendoza inside the left field foul pole to give the Orioles a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second inning. Matt Wieters led off with a single, continuing his recent tear, and Hardy followed with his sixth home run of the season. Wieters doubled twice and drove in three runs last night, including the game-winner in the eighth inning. Hardy has...

Maybe something has to give here tonight. Chris Tillman has pitched very well over his last three starts, but he has not pitched very well at all in three career starts against Kansas City. Tillman makes his seventh start of the year tonight. He is 2-1 with a 3.63 ERA. Over his first three starts, his ERA was 7.07. Over his past three, he is 2-0 with an ERA of 1.31, allowing just 14 hits and three runs over 20 2/3 innings. In his career against K.C., Tillman is 0-2 with an ERA of 10.93. He's...

Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts, limited to 118 games over the past four seasons because of various injuries, will undergo surgery Thursday on his right hamstring. Roberts, 35, will undergo a procedure to repair one of the muscles in his hamstring - it's a "semitendinosus release" - and the recovery time is expected to be approximately six weeks. Dr. Daniel Cooper will perform the surgery at Carrell Clinic in Dallas. Roberts will eventually report to Sarasota to begin his...

Congratulations go out to Nationals hitting coach Rick Eckstein and his wife Caroline, as the couple welcomed the birth of their first child, a girl named Isabelle. Manager Davey Johnson reports that both mother and baby are doing well, and the Nats should have their hitting coach in the dugout for tonight's game against the Tigers. That is, if tonight's game gets played. The tarp is on the field here at Nats Park and rain has been falling for the last hour or so. As always, I'll keep...

The tarp is off the field and it appears that tonight's game will start on time. A few of the Royals ignored the rain this afternoon and played catch in the outfield. Manager Buck Showalter said Saturday is as far back as the Orioles can push starter Miguel Gonzalez. Showalter has weighed his options if Gonzalez can't pitch. "We looked at it, but I'm hoping that everything goes well and he pitches for us on Saturday," Showalter said. "I'd hate to DL him with a blister, but this is a...

After getting some pushback from fans, the Nationals have announced that they've reverted to their previous rainout ticket policy and will allow all fans who purchased tickets to Tuesday night's postponed game against the Tigers the option to exchange their tickets for any remaining regular or value home game this season, subject to availability. Following Tuesday night's rainout, the Nationals had initially sent a release stating that those with tickets for Tuesday night's game would be...

Right-hander Christian Garcia has continued to make progress at extended spring training in his recovery from a partially torn tendon in his right forearm. According to manager Davey Johnson, Garcia could be less than two weeks from a rehab assignment. "He has been throwing off the mound quite a bit," said Johnson. "Mostly the reports I have been getting is (he is throwing) fastball, changeup, tomorrow he will mix in curveballs. After he does that, he will throw to hitters (in) batting...

After pitching for five seasons and for nearly 1,000 innings in an Orioles uniform, Jeremy Guthrie will take the mound at Camden Yards tomorrow and pitch against the Orioles for the first time ever. Will that be strange for him? "Not too much," he said this afternoon in the Kansas City clubhouse. "I think enough time has passed and having seen them last year, to be able to say hello and congratulate them on the way they are playing, now it feels like just doing what we do every five...