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Orioles reliever Luis Ayala began to feel ill during today's game and is currently being checked out at a local hospital. He won't accompany the Orioles to Boston tonight, but he could meet up with them later.
Manager Buck Showalter said Ayala left the bullpen around the sixth or seventh inning. Showalter said the club has a pretty good read on the problem, but he didn't go into specifics.
Showalter and executive vice president Dan Duquette are discussing the various options if outfielder...
Some miscommunication in the Orioles outfield was among the factors leading to a 4-3 loss this afternoon to Minnesota.
Also, don't look now, but the Orioles have started the year 0-3 in one-run games after going 29-9 last year. They didn't lose their third one-run game last season until May 13, in the 35th game.
The Orioles are 3-3 as they head to Boston and New York for a six-game road trip.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the Twins' third, Justin Morneau lifted a fly ball toward...
Stephen Strasburg wasn't at his sharpest, the Nationals' infielders made a couple of more defensive miscues and the bats went silent after the second inning.
Put it all together and it's a 6-3 loss to the Reds, giving Cincinnati the series win.
After a big second inning, highlighted by Kurt Suzuki's three-run homer to left, the Nats had just three hits and four baserunners the rest of the way.
Suzuki doubled with one out in the ninth, his third extra-base hit of the day, but the...
Nolan Reimold grounded into a double play today to end the bottom of the sixth inning, and he didn't take the field for the top of the seventh.
The Orioles announced that Reimold was removed from the game with right hamstring tightness. He will be re-evaluated on Monday.
Reimold was bothered by a sore right shoulder in spring training, but didn't have any hamstring issues. He's 1-for-3 with a run scored today and 4-for-17 this season.
Nate McLouth replaced Reimold in left...
There seem to have been a few times this season, and even in spring training, where I've noticed an Orioles starting pitcher praising catcher Taylor Teagarden and his ability to call pitches.
The O's have one of the best backstops, of course, in Matt Wieters and it's nice that the club can send a guy out there to sub for Wieters without a huge dropoff.
The pitchers need to be confident in the guy behind that plate and the literally hundred or more decisions he makes each game.
I asked...
Jason Hammel threw 10 of his 13 pitches for strikes in the first inning today, allowing a single and striking out two. He retired the side in order in the second, picking up another strikeout.
Hammel has thrown 27 pitches, 20 for strikes.
J.J. Hardy hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the second to give the Orioles a 2-0 lead. Hardy's ball traveled an estimated 374 feet.
The Orioles have hit seven homers this season. None of them are solo shots.
Nick Markakis added an RBI single with two...
In their last four at-bats against Reds pitching, the Nationals' catchers are 3-for-4 with three home runs and six RBIs.
Wilson Ramos did some damage yesterday, crushing two homers in the Nats' 11-inning win.
In his first at-bat today, Kurt Suzuki got the Nats on the board in the second inning, taking a 1-1 slider from Johnny Cueto and smoking it out to left for a three-run shot.
Suzuki has his first hit of the 2013 season, and the Nats have a tie ballgame. It's 3-3 midway through the...
A few eyebrows were raised today when the Orioles released the probable starting pitchers for the upcoming Boston series and Miguel Gonzalez was not listed.
The Orioles list Wei-Yin Chen to pitch game one of that series tomorrow afternoon with Jake Arrieta going Wednesday, after an off day and Chris Tillman on Thursday night.
Gonzalez, who gave up two runs over 6 1/3 innings in his first start in the third game of the Tampa Bay series, would have been in line to start Wednesday in Boston,...