Leaning against the dugout wall, Brandon Hyde chomped his pink bubblegum, one hand on his hip, his eyes filled with the kind of dissatisfaction Orioles fans were used to seeing from their manager in each of his previous three seasons. Hyde’s bullpen was floundering. His defense was breaking down. A six-run lead was slipping away like air from a bal

The Orioles will try to clinch their series against the Red Sox today after moving within 1 ½ games of the last wild card spot. They improved last night to 6-4 against the Red Sox after going 6-13 in 2021. Michael Wacha’s reverse splits have produced a right-handed heavy lineup for the Orioles. Austin Hays is leading off and playing left field, and

If there were any reasons for concern about the Orioles offense - and surely there were throughout Birdland after Thursday's loss - they were washed away for at least one night amid an avalanche of offense. The O's kept scoring and kept hitting home runs in a 15-10 win over Boston Friday night in front of 33,136 at Oriole Park. The O's set a season

SAN DIEGO – As he watched the chaos unfold before his eyes from his perch in the on-deck circle, Alex Call saw the Nationals take the lead against the Padres in the top of the ninth and saw his opportunity to expand on that lead with Lane Thomas now standing at third base after Josh Hader’s three-base throwing error changed the entire complexion of

With Ryan Ripken no longer playing baseball and venturing into the sports media world, he’s finding platforms to pass along his knowledge of the game and opinions on prospects who were teammates or simply caught his eye from the sidelines. Ripken created a Twitter account this year and used it to announce his retirement, though he hasn’t ruled out

SAN DIEGO – They went to the ninth all knotted up, for the second straight night. The Nationals’ bullpen kept holding the Padres’ supposedly superior lineup in check, just trying to give its lineup an opportunity to push across the go-ahead run. And when the San Diego bullpen gate swung open and Josh Hader emerged, the Nats had themselves exactly t

Jorge Mateo leaped in the air tonight as his fly ball cleared the left field wall, pumped his fist above his head and stuck the landing.  The two runners ahead of him kept circling the bases. Mateo walked back to touch first with hands still clenched. Every at-bat seems to matter more in a pennant race, and especially for an offense that’s sputtere

SAN DIEGO – From the moment they acquired him in the Juan Soto-Josh Bell trade, the Nationals envisioned CJ Abrams as their starting shortstop, with Luis García joining him up the middle as his double-play partner. And the intention was to make sure the two young infielders got as many opportunities to play together as possible before season’s end.

The Orioles begin an important three-game weekend series with the Boston Red Sox tonight at Oriole Park. The Birds (61-57) lost 3-2 on Thursday to the Chicago Cubs and they begin play tonight 2.5 games behind Toronto and Tampa Bay for the third American League wild card spot. The Orioles have lost the past two games, scoring just three runs, and th

SAN DIEGO – On the heels of an uplifting win in Thursday night’s series opener, the Nationals are back at it tonight against the Padres. And if they’re going to make it two in a row, they’re going to have to do something they couldn’t do earlier this week: Beat Blake Snell. The San Diego lefty thoroughly dominated this lineup Sunday at Nationals Pa