ANAHEIM, Calif. – The Nationals pitching staff did an excellent job containing Shohei Ohtani the hitter Monday night. Now we’ll find out how the Nationals lineup fares against Ohtani the pitcher. It’s the biggest attraction in baseball right now, Ohtani pitching and serving as the Angels DH on the same night. And tonight, we’ll get our first look a

Kyle Bradish will make an injury rehab start Friday night at Double-A Bowie, perhaps the final hurdle before his return to the active roster. The Orioles, ideally, would like Bradish to work four or five innings. Bradish is on the 15-day injured list with a bruised right foot, the result of a 104-mph line drive from the Rangers’ Jonah Heim on April

Gunnar Henderson, off to a .148 batting start in his first eight games of this season, has been making some small adjustments in his batting stance that he feels soon could produce the solid results he and the team expect from him. In his 34 games after his call-up last year he batted .259 with a .788 OPS, producing an OPS+ of 123. Those numbers ma

Grayson Rodriguez makes his Camden Yards debut tonight, sans the gas cans in the stands. Rodriguez remains in the rotation while Kyle Bradish is on the injured list with a bruised right foot, and he could stay depending on his results and how the Orioles could create room for him. Bradish is expected to begin an injury rehab assignment this week. T

He was not a high draft pick, but maybe Double-A Bowie right-hander Justin Armbruester, their Opening Day starter, was the perfect pick for the Orioles organization and its pitching development program. He entered an organization that under the Mike Elias front office has become heavily data and technology driven. In Armbruester, they added a cereb

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Hunter Harvey trotted in from the left field bullpen, and suddenly the decade of injuries and missed opportunities he endured felt worth it. This was the reason he kept coming back from injury after injury, for a chance to be summoned to pitch in a situation like this: 1-run game, a runner on base, two outs and Mike Trout – one of

The switch began a few days before Heston Kjerstad left major league camp in Sarasota. Ground balls and other drills at first base, a position he hadn’t played except for three games in college before the 2020 draft. Nothing as a professional. The activity increased over at Twin Lakes Park, and Kjerstad, normally a right fielder, played first base

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Eleven games into the season, we have a pretty good idea what the 2023 Nationals are and what they are not. They are not going to beat you with home runs. They are not going to trot out a dominant starting pitcher on most nights. They are, however, going to put the ball in play and probably rack up a good number of singles and the

If there’s a soft spot in a major league schedule, the Orioles could clutch theirs like a body pillow. Fresh off two losing series within their division, the Orioles began a stretch tonight of playing 19 of 22 games against sub-.500 teams. An opportunity, perhaps, to offer another interpretation of liftoff in Baltimore.   Of course, the Oriole

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Michael Chavis made the Nationals’ Opening Day roster because of his positional versatility, the club wanted to make sure it had another player on its bench who could handle multiple infield positions if needed. Chavis’ presence is coming in handy tonight, because with both Luis García an Ildemaro Vargas banged up, the 27-year-old