The Single-A Potomac Nationals fell at Frederick 3-2 on Monday night, ending their defense of the Mills Cup.

FREDERICK, Md. - Jake Pettit pitched Frederick to a win in Game 1 of this playoff series and the lefty came up big tonight in Game 5 as well. Pettit gave up just three hits and one run over six innings, just as he did in game one, to pitch Frederick to a 3-2 win over Potomac in the fifth and deciding game of this Carolina League semi-final series. The Keys advance to face Kinston for the Mills Cup championship and will host the first two games of that best-of-five series on Tuesday and...

Zach Britton has thrown 69 pitches in three innings tonight. He'll need to become a little more economical with them. And real fast. Britton walked a batter in the first inning. He walked a batter in the second. He walked two more in the third, when the Rays scored three times to take a 3-0 lead. Britton also allowed three hits in the third - doubles by Brandon Guyer and Ben Zobrist, and a single to Sean Rodriguez. Guyer was leading off the inning as the Rays' No. 9 hitter. Zobrist's...

FREDERICK, Md. - The Frederick Keys have jumped out to a 3-0 lead after the first inning of Game 5 of their playoff series with Potomac here at Harry Grove Stadium. After Dale Mollenhauer led off the last of the first with a foul out, Manny Machado followed that with a single to left. Batting fourth as the DH, Aaron Baker came up and hit a two-run homer to left on the first pitch from Paul Demny to lead 3-0. After Demny issued a two-out walk, he was lifted from the game and right-hander...

FREDERICK, Md. - As Frederick plays host to Potomac tonight in the deciding game of this series, it is the first Game 5 of a playoff series in Frederick since 1990, the first year the Keys played here at Harry Grove Stadium. Frederick defeated Kinston and Jim Thome 7-5 that night to win the Carolina League championship. A win tonight by the Keys and they return here tomorrow night to face Kinston again in a best-of-five series for the league championship. Keys manager Orlando Gomez had two...

Reliever Jason Berken came off the disabled list today after throwing a bullpen session Saturday at the minor league complex in Sarasota. Nick Delmonico, the Orioles' sixth-round draft pick out of Farragut High School in Tennessee, stopped by Camden Yards today and took early batting practice. He'll head to Sarasota tomorrow for the fall instructional league. Manager Buck Showalter was impressed with Delmonico, saying, "That's the way they're supposed to look." Brian Graham, the...

FREDERICK, Md. - After a summer of some uncertainty about the future of pro baseball in Frederick, the Keys are about to finalize a new 10-year lease to remain at Harry Grove Stadium through the 2021 season. For a while earlier this year, the independent Atlantic League tried to get a deal with the city of Frederick and, in effect, push the Keys out of town. But this franchise,which has been here since 1989, doesn't seem to be going anywhere. The Keys have always been an Orioles...

FREDERICK, Md. - Lefty Jake Pettit has made 11 starts this season for the Single-A Frederick Keys, including one in the playoffs, and Frederick is 10-1 in those starts. The Keys hope that winning trend continues tonight when Pettit pitches the fifth and deciding game against Potomac in the Carolina League playoffs. Tonight's winner will advance to host Kinston tomorrow night in Game 1 of the Mills Cup championship series. Pettit began this year with Single-A Delmarva, going 5-4 with an ERA...

This time, Adam Jones hasn't been scratched from the lineup. He never got into it. Matt Angle is starting in center field while Jones continues to deal with a sore left ankle. For the Orioles: Matt Angle CF J.J. Hardy SS Nick Markakis RF Vladimir Guerrero DH Matt Wieters C Chris Davis 3B Mark Reynolds 1B Kyle Hudson LF Robert Andino 2B Zach Britton LHP Update: Jones is out of the lineup because of a sore right thumb. That's why he was scratched from the lineup yesterday. His ankle...

On this Saturday, September 17, the Orioles and Oriole Advocates will hold the annual Cardboard to Leather Collection at Oriole Park before the O's take on the Angels. Volunteers at each gate of the park will accept donations of new and gently used baseball and softball equipment. Monetary donations will also be accepted. Those contributing to the collection will receive an autographed player card while supplies last. A silent auction will also be held inside Gate E on the main concourse to...