TAMPA – Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino gathered his players today for a post-break meeting, a “good talk” with details that he wanted to keep private. “I’m not gonna tell you the message, but it was multiple things,” he said this afternoon during his media scrum inside the visiting dugout at steamy George M. Steinbrenner Field. “Just a lot

The idea is to play a more fundamental brand of baseball the rest of the season, Miguel Cairo explained this afternoon. The Nationals’ interim manager then watched as the Padres showed them the proper way to do that while watching his own team come up woefully short on multiple occasions. Despite getting a jolt from CJ Abrams’ game-tying homer in t

TAMPA – The chances of Grayson Rodriguez facing batters in 2025 just took another hit. Rodriguez is shut down again for an indefinite period due to the same elbow soreness that kept him from pitching in spring training after a March 5 game against the Twins in Fort Myers. The injury report lists Rodriguez with right elbow inflammation but he initia

For four months, Derek Law tried to get his arm ready to pitch in the major leagues, hoping the setbacks he experienced along the way could finally be overcome. Until the veteran Nationals reliever was told last week he has a partial tear of the flexor tendon in his right elbow, at which point hope turned to acceptance. Law will undergo surgery soo

Before the Nationals broke for the All-Star break, they made a small adjustment to their starting rotation that left a lingering question mark heading into the second half. And before their second-half opener against the Padres, interim manager Miguel Cairo provided an answer. Brad Lord will be stretched out as a starter again to fill the fifth spo

TAMPA – The Orioles filled the opening on their 26-man roster by signing reliever Corbin Martin to a one-year major league contract. Martin was designated for assignment Sunday before the Orioles knew that reliever Scott Blewett would go on the injured list with right elbow discomfort. Martin declined an outright assignment, became a free agent and

And we’re back. After a much-needed, four-day break, the Nationals return for the second half of the season, surely hoping it will go much better than the first half did. The “second half,” of course, is a misnomer. They’ve already played 96 games, so there are only 66 still to be played. It begins tonight with the opener of a three-game series aga

TAMPA – Less than a week after drafting catcher/outfielder Ike Irish in the first round, the Orioles got his signature on a contract. Irish, 21, signed earlier today in Baltimore after passing his physical. The Orioles made him the 19th overall pick Sunday night out of Auburn University. Irish, a left-handed hitter and Michigan-native climbed draft

The Orioles today signed catcher IKE IRISH, the No. 19 overall pick in the 2025 First-Year Player Draft. Irish, the Hudsonville, Mich. native and Auburn University (AL) product, is the first of 24 Orioles draft picks to sign. The deadline for MLB teams to sign their draft selections is Monday, July 28, at 5 p.m. ET.

The All-Star break is over. The Nationals – along with 29 other major league teams – return to action tonight, and the second half of the 2025 season gets underway. It’s a second half that doesn’t hold anything close to the same promise it did a few months ago, when it looked like the Nats might at least threaten the .500 mark, maybe even make a su