Happy Star Wars Day from Nationals Park! The team is giving away dueling light side vs. dark side Hawaiian shirts to fans today, so make sure you get to the gates on time. On the field, the pitching duel sees Patrick Corbin making his 10th start of the season for the light side and Alex Faedo starting for the dark side. Corbin is 2-5 with a 4.65 ER

TORONTO - After yet another series-opening victory the Orioles today have a chance to win yet another series if they can beat the Toronto Blue Jays in Game 2 of the weekend set. The Orioles have been hitting more homers lately, and added three more in Friday's 6-2 win as Ryan Mountcastle hit a three-run shot, Anthony Santander a solo and Adam Frazi

TORONTO – They recently took two of three at home against the Tampa Bay Rays. And Friday as the Orioles started their first stretch of the year playing AL East opponents in back-to-back series, they got off to a winning start thanks to a pitcher that enjoys being a tone setter. Right-hander Kyle Gibson, at 35 the oldest player on the club, has said

When the bottom of the sixth arrived at Nationals Park on Friday night, a zero still showing in the home team’s hit column, Lane Thomas decided to just go ahead and say what surely others in the ballpark were thinking at the time. “I just started screaming: ‘He’s throwing a no-hitter!’ the outfielder said. “I think nobody really knew. I was like: ‘

The mailbag record for most repeated topic was shattered this weekend. Relinquishing the top spot is, “How did you get this job?” Followed closely by, “How do you keep this job?” Adley Rutschman and Gunnar Henderson are in the majors. Baseball’s back-to-back No. 1 prospects. Top pitching prospect Grayson Rodriguez also arrived. Future No. 1 overall

TORONTO – Ryan Mountcastle likes to hit against Toronto Blue Jays pitching, he likes to hit at Rogers Centre and he likes to hit against Toronto lefty Yusei Kikuchi. The Orioles turned that trifecta and a huge outing from right-hander Kyle Gibson into another series-opening win tonight as Mountcastle hit a three-run homer to trigger a 6-2 win over

When Chad Kuhl landed on the 15-day injured list at the beginning of the month, the Nationals decided to promote Jake Irvin from Triple-A Rochester and see what they had in this 26-year-old right-hander. After a solid, though flawed major league debut against the Cubs, there was enough reason to want to see more of Irvin. After an eye-opening, 6 1/

TORONTO – The Orioles have played just one of their past six series against an American League East team, but starting tonight, for the first time this year they will play back-to-back series against division opponents. Tonight they play the first of a weekend series in Toronto at Rogers Centre. They'll then head to New York for a series next week

TORONTO – No doubt tonight’s Orioles lineup is matchup-based as the club tonight faces Toronto lefty Yusei Kikuchi (5-0, 3.89 ERA) in the opener of a three-game series at Toronto. It starts an important six-game road trip for the Orioles against the Blue Jays and Yankees. In facing Kikuchi, manager Brandon Hyde had definite reasons for putting Cedr

Joey Meneses was hesitant to leave Washington with the rest of his Nationals teammates following Monday’s win over the Mets, given what was going on in his personal life. Though Meneses’ wife, Mitzy Guzman, wasn’t due to give birth to the couple’s first child until later in the month, she went to the hospital that day with some discomfort, only to