BOSTON - Adam Jones broke a 2-2 tie in the top of the seventh inning tonight, lining an RBI double to left field against former teammate Koji Uehara. Jones didn't wait long. Uehara replaced Andrew Miller with two on and two outs, and Jones swung at the first pitch. The result was Jones' second RBI and his 10th of the season. He's 2-for-4 tonight and 18-for-38 with five doubles on the season. Jones has six multi-hit games out of eight played by the Orioles. All the damage came with two...

Coming into tonight, the hitter in front of Ryan Zimmerman in the Nationals' batting order had only been intentionally walked once since 2009. That one time, on Sept. 3, 2011, Zimmerman responded with a walk-off homer over the Mets. Zimmerman, after all, has been the Nats' most fearsome hitter for some time now. There's very rarely a reason to put a runner on base in front of him, regardless of most circumstances. Apparently, that's changing. The White Sox decided to intentionally walk...

Through three innings, the White Sox have put six men on base off Nationals starter Dan Haren. The Nats, in turn, have put seven on against Chicago starter Dylan Axelrod, who has already thrown 74 pitches. Still, it's just a 3-1 ballgame, with the Nats holding the lead as we go to the fourth. The two teams have combined to strand nine runners and have gone 2-for-10 with runners in scoring position. Haren has given up three doubles already tonight, one in each inning, but he's managed to...

BOSTON - Boston Red Sox starter Alfredo Aceves fell behind Chris Davis 3-0 in the top of the second inning tonight. At that point, it may have been a good idea to just bounce one in the dirt. Aceves challenged Davis with a 93-mph four-seam fastball and lost. Davis belted his sixth home run in nine games, the ball slamming into the seats in center field, to give the Orioles a 1-0 lead. Davis watched the flight of the ball for a brief moment before dropping his bat. It was never in...

BOWIE, Md. - Kevin Gausman has retired the first six batters he has faced tonight in his first home start for the Double-A Bowie Baysox. Gausman pitched a perfect first on 15 pitches, 11 for strikes. He got, in order, two groundouts and a swinging strikeout against Akron No. 3 hitter Chun Chen. In a very quick top of the second, he sandwiched two outs on grounders around another swinging strikeout. It was just an eight-pitch inning. So far, he has thrown 17 of 23 pitches for strikes. He...

BOWIE, Md. - For the first time since 2010, the Orioles will field two teams in the Dominican Summer League when play begins in June. The O's entry in the league went 34-36 last season after making the playoffs in 2011, going 46-24. Four organizations - the Yankees, Mets, Cubs and Pirates - fielded two teams in the DSL in 2012. This is the latest sign that the Orioles are looking to upgrade their international efforts under executive vice president Dan Duquette. In this interview last month,...

The last time Wizards guard John Wall threw out a ceremonial first pitch at Nationals Park, back in 2011, things, uh, didn't go so well. Wall wound up and spiked the ball so short of home plate that it didn't even reach the dirt, forcing Drew Storen, who was behind the dish awaiting Wall's toss, to lunge to his right to snag the ball before it got by him. If you haven't seen the video,

BOSTON - Orioles manager Buck Showalter said second baseman Brian Roberts, on the disabled list since April 5 with a ruptured tendon behind his right knee, still hasn't been cleared to begin baseball activities. Roberts isn't walking with a limp, which is a good sign. However, Showalter said it would be a "challenge" for Roberts to be ready in two weeks since suffering the injury. Steve Johnson and Tsuyoshi Wada are still scheduled to pitch in an extended spring training game Saturday in...

First baseman Adam LaRoche talks about it all the time. When he would come in to play the Nationals while with the Diamondbacks, they knew they could beat the Nationals, and they expected to beat the Nationals. That is not the case anymore. The Nationals are 5-0 at Nationals Park to start this season and were 50-31 at home last season, second only to the Yankees (51-30). Since 2008, the Nats have steadily improved at home. In 2008, they were 34-46 at Nationals Park, 33-48 in 2009, 41-40 in...

Low Single-A Hagerstown Suns outfielder Wander Ramos has been placed on the seven-day disabled list with a hamstring injury, according to a club source. The injury does not appear to be serious, and they will take a precautionary measure to rest the hamstring this early in the season. The 22-year-old Ramos (who turns 23 in two weeks) was hitting .200 (2-for-10) in four games, with two RBIs, a run scored and three walks. Outfielder Will Piwnica-Worms has been called up from extended spring...