For the first time since April 9, the Orioles will face an American League East team tonight. They open a three-game home series versus the Boston Red Sox. The O’s (14-7) opened the 2023 season at Fenway Park, winning 10-9 before losses by 9-8 and 9-5 scores. They allowed Boston at least nine runs in three consecutive games. Contrast that with the
Though Monday is supposed to be a quiet period for minor league baseball, with no games scheduled, the Orioles stayed busy with personnel moves and could keep bragging about the quality of their farm system. Triple-A Norfolk outfielder Colton Cowser was named International League Player of the Week after slashing .319/.481/.826 with a double, three
At the end of a baseball season, when a team like the Orioles hopes to have enough wins to make the playoffs, victories like Sunday may really seem important. They took a game where they didn’t have a baserunner until the seventh inning and didn’t score until the eighth and they won that game. Adam Frazier scored the winning run and afterward talke
The Orioles will try to extend their winning streak to seven games tonight in the series opener against the Red Sox at Camden Yards. They’ve won eight of their last nine games and 10 of 11. Austin Hays is leading off and Cedric Mullins is batting seventh. James McCann is catching and Adley Rutschman is the designated hitter. Adam Frazier is batting
With the Major League Baseball season now underway, the Orioles’ year-round baseball operations continue in Sarasota with Extended Spring Training. The public is invited to watch Orioles minor league players in action at the Ed Smith Stadium complex in April, May, and June. Baltimore’s farm system is currently rated as the top player development
He is one of baseball’s best prospects and has been playing very much like it this year. And now, after just 13 games to begin his 2023 season at Low Single-A Delmarva, the Orioles are promoting shortstop Jackson Holliday to High-A Aberdeen. Holliday, 19, the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 MLB Draft, will play his first IronBirds game tomorrow nigh
ABERDEEN, Md. - JACKSON HOLLIDAY, Baltimore Orioles’ 2022 1st overall draft pick, has been promoted from the Delmarva Shorebirds (Single-A) to the Aberdeen IronBirds (Advanced-A), the Orioles announced today. Holliday, son of retired Major League 7-time All-Star Matt Holliday, re-joined the Shorebirds out of 2023 Spring Training, having posted a
The Orioles, through 21 games, are playing .667 ball at 14-7. They are on a pace to win 108 games this season. It’s a pretty solid start, to say the least. They are second in the AL East, 4.5 games back of a 19-3 Tampa Bay team, but 1.5 games ahead of both the Yankees and Blue Jays and three games up on the Boston team they host tonight. Birdland h
MINNEAPOLIS – During the final days of the 2022 season, Mason Thompson entered Davey Martinez’s office for the same kind of exit interview everyone on the Nationals roster was given before leaving for the winter. It was a chance for Thompson to discuss what he felt he did well and what he did not do well in his first full big league season. And, mo
The Orioles have won 14 of their first 21 games to tie for the third-best start in club history. And they don’t want to hear about soft schedules and beatable opponents. It used to be them. Remember? They were tagged as the easy marks during the rebuild. They were the team that the rest of the league was supposed to view as providing a breather dur