It’s never a good idea to infer regular season performance based on spring training numbers, but in the case of Josiah Gray there seemed to be some valid reason to believe what he did in Florida in March could translate into what he would do in Washington in April. Not the 0.55 ERA Gray posted in Grapefruit League play, as impressive as that looked

The Orioles and Boston Red Sox resume their season-opening series at Fenway Park this afternoon. The Orioles had 15 hits - including homers from Adley Rutschman and Ramón Urías - drew nine walks and stole five bases in their Opening Day 10-9 win on Thursday. The Orioles hit .395 (15-for-38) in the win and produced four doubles and two homers while

Davey Martinez admitted this spring he might be trotting out different-looking lineups on a daily basis, based on matchups, lefty-righty splits and other assorted information. Whether the Nationals manager realized all along how different his Game 1 and Game 2 lineups would look is a valid question. The lineup card Martinez submitted for this after

The Orioles' Triple-A Norfolk affiliate began its new season last night. But the seasons do not begin for Double-A Bowie, High-A Aberdeen or Single-A Delmarva until next Thursday. But today we have the break-camp rosters for those three clubs as they were announced this afternoon. There still could be tweaks and changes to these rosters between now

BOSTON – The Orioles used six leadoff hitters over the course of last season, with Cedric Mullins getting the vast majority of the starts. Manager Brandon Hyde already has used two this year and the Orioles are two games into their schedule. Mullins moves down to eighth today against Red Sox left-hander Chris Sale, and Ramón Urías rises to the top

BOSTON – Ramón Urías is batting leadoff today for the first time in 215 major league games. He's starting at second base. Manager Brandon Hyde adjusted his lineup with left-hander Chris Sale starting for the Red Sox. Cedric Mullins moves down to eighth. Anthony Santander goes from left field on Opening Day to designated hitter. Ryan McKenna is batt

There are few days on the baseball calendar as frustrating as the off-day following Opening Day. It’s unfortunately tradition, though, included to serve as a fallback option for the season opener in case of bad weather. When the weather’s fine, all it does is give everyone way too much time to overanalyze Game 1 before turning attention to Game 2.

The Orioles stole five bases on Opening Day as the Red Sox battery, almost no matter who was pitching, was no match for their thievery. They stole off catcher Reese McGuire and three different pitchers getting three bases while Ryan Brasier was on the mound and one each off Corey Kluber and Kaleb Ort. We will see how the rest of the season goes, bu

Before joining the Nationals, Thaddeus Ward spent parts of four unusual seasons in the Red Sox’s minor league system as their fifth-round draft pick from the University of Central Florida in 2018. After being drafted, the right-hander appeared in only 11 games at low Single-A in the second half of the 2018 season. In his first full professional sea

Bryce Harper was the first to coin the phrase, way back on Sept. 23, 2012 when the then-rookie outfielder lost a fly ball in the sun during an afternoon game at Nationals Park. “You can’t catch what you can’t see, you know?” Harper said that day. “Nothing you can do about it. Sun Monster got me.” And for the last decade, anyone who has closely watc