CINCINNATI – The Nationals added another reliever to the injured list today, placing Mason Thompson on the 15-day IL with a left knee contusion that appears to have prevented the right-hander from pitching most of the week. Thompson hadn’t appeared in a game since Monday, when he tossed a scoreless eighth on all of five pitches, helping lead the Na

CINCINNATI – Don’t look now, but the Nationals are playing some pretty good baseball. Seriously. They’ve won nine of their last 14 games, and they’re 19-16 since June 24, when they opened up a solid West Coast trip in San Diego and Seattle. That’s actually the sixth-best record in the National League during that time frame, 11th-best in the majors.

The Washington Nationals recalled right-handed pitcher Joan Adon from Triple-A Rochester and placed right-handed pitcher Mason Thompson on the 15-day Injured List with a left knee contusion (retroactive to August 2) on Saturday. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Rizzo made the announcement. Adon, 24, joins the Nati

It’s a long season and a pitcher that was seemingly unhittable for a long stretch of 2023 was now becoming much more hittable. O’s righty reliever Yennier Cano had a prolific start to his season. But in recent outings he’s made some changes to try to get himself completely back on track. This is a right-hander who has been a standout for the Oriole

CINCINNATI – Blake Rutherford initially figured he’d make his major league debut for the team that used its first-round draft pick on him in 2016: the Yankees. When he was part of a significant trade one year later, he assumed his debut would now come for the club that acquired him: the White Sox. So imagine what must’ve been going through Rutherfo

Former Orioles pitcher Mike Boddicker didn’t hesitate when asked yesterday whether the Orioles can win the World Series, their first since the 1983 team that’s going to be honored prior to tonight's game. He pounced on the question like a dogpile on the mound. “Heck yes,” he said. “I look at these pitchers and stuff and I’m going, ‘Yeah, they’ve go

The 1983 Orioles had three future Hall of Famers on their roster but also reserves who stepped up in pressure situations, contributions made from top to bottom that led to the organization’s last World Series championship. This year’s club is reliant on 26 players, too early to know who might be ticketed for Cooperstown. And they keep finding new a

CINCINNATI – The Nationals, as anyone who has watched them all season knows, don’t hit home runs. The Reds, as anyone who has watched them in recent months knows, try to win games less with power and more with speed. So wouldn’t you know all but one run scored in tonight’s series opener at Great American Ball Park came via the long ball. Including

The Orioles enjoyed their trek to Toronto, taking three of four from a Blue Jays team that had won 21 of 28 games heading into that series. The Orioles outscored the Blue Jays 24-10 in the series.  They left Canada with a 67-42 record and have now won four of five, eight of 12 and 18 of the last 25 games. They are 13-7 in the second half. Tonight t

More than 20 members of the Orioles 1983 World Series championship team are in Baltimore for the 40th anniversary celebration. A few players didn’t expect to be invited back, saying their group won’t be the most recent to win a title. They think this Orioles team is destined to make its own history. A three-games series against the Mets begins with