It’s either the best or the worst job in baseball, serving as the backup to a No. 1 catcher who plays almost every day. For Riley Adams, it’s reality right now. With Keibert Ruiz starting as many games behind the plate as any catcher in the majors, Adams is left to watch from the bench. He starts roughly once a week – officially four times in the N

DETROIT – The Orioles played their 28th game yesterday and completed the first full month of the season. The 17th win on Saturday was a franchise record for April. They have 19 total. A lot of season is left on the schedule. At last check, they still play 162. Too early for analysis, predictions, trends and numbers consumption? Of course not. That

Josiah Gray was standing alone in right field around 1 p.m., going through his pregame stretch routine and preparing to enter the bullpen to begin warming up for he expected to be a 1:35 p.m. first pitch at Nationals Park. And then the rain began falling, and all of a sudden people were huddling up and yelling across the field to others to halt all

DETROIT – Kyle Bradish is tearing into a variety pack of starts in 2023. A line drive smacks into his right foot in Texas and puts him on the injured list. He returns with six scoreless innings in D.C. The Red Sox rock him for seven runs and eight hits in 2 1/3 innings in his home debut. Bradish hadn’t faced the Tigers until today. Hard to know wha

The Orioles four games in four days series at Detroit, working around Friday's rainout with Saturday's doubleheader, wraps up this afternoon with the series finale. A win by the Orioles would move them to 10 games over the .500 mark for the first time this year and they would also have won six straight series. Since opening the year going 1-2 at Bo

DETROIT – Kyle Stowers was removed for a pinch-hitter last night in Charlotte and had no idea why. Stowers found out later that the Orioles were promoting him. “Just really excited,” he said this morning. “Obviously, happy to be back up here. It’s obviously a great group in Norfolk and a great group up here, so it’s just fun that there’s a lot of w

On the heels of a doubleheader sweep that taxed their bullpen, the Nationals made their first performance-based roster move of the season this morning, designating Anthony Banda for assignment and purchasing Andrés Machado’s contract from Triple-A Rochester. The transaction gives the Nats a fresh arm who can throw multiple innings today if needed i

DETROIT – The string of opposing left-handed starters ended at three today, and so did Joey Ortiz’s time in the majors. Ortiz was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk, with outfielder Kyle Stowers rejoining the Orioles for their series finale in Detroit. Ortiz went 2-for-8 with four RBIs while making three starts at second base. The Orioles optioned Stower

You won’t believe this, but it’s raining again here in the nation’s capital. I know, I know. Nobody could’ve predicted that. Actually, everyone predicted it, and that’s why today’s series finale between the Nationals and Pirates is very much up in the air. The problem: This is the Pirates’ only trip here this season, so they have to do everything t

The Orioles – and everybody else in the American League East – have been looking up in the standings at the Tampa Bay Rays all season. From just about the first pitch of the 2023 year. The Rays went 13-0 to start the year and began play yesterday at 22-5 (.815) with the best record in baseball. For a while, they were looking like they would pull of