The playoffs begin in several leagues around Minor League Baseball tonight. For the Orioles high Single-A affiliate, the Aberdeen IronBirds, they travel to Brooklyn for Game 1 of a best-of-three league semi-final series in the South Atlantic League. Aberdeen (78-54) advanced by virtue of winning its division in the first half, going 43-23. Brooklyn

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – James Wood grew up about an hour away from Nationals Park in Olney, Md. He attended Nationals games while starting his high school career as a two-sport athlete at St. John’s College High School in D.C. before transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., to focus on baseball. When the Padres drafted him in the second round

The Orioles are coming out of yesterday’s break in the schedule and hoping that their offense, which got a head start on it, shows up tonight in D.C. They were shut out Sunday on three hits, the only slice of good news being how Austin Hays accounted for two of them. Six of the last eight games ended in defeat, and the last two series have been los

For a while the Orioles pitching was so good they could and did win games without scoring very much. They beat Houston 2-0 and 3-1 on the last road trip and added wins in Cleveland by scores of 4-0 and 3-0. Hard to lose when you don’t allow a run as the Boston Red Sox learned Sunday. The Boston pitching made a first-inning run stand up as the Oriol

That was a long day at the end of a long road trip as the end of a long season approaches. The Nationals sat through a 3-hour, 36-minute rain delay Sunday afternoon before finally losing 7-5 to the Phillies to be swept at Citizens Bank Park. What was shaping up to be a nice 10-day road trip against nothing but National League contenders wound up en

The Orioles are off today and again on Thursday, and they don’t return home until next Monday. They’re 5 ½ games behind for the last wild card after losing back-to-back series. We live in the present, think ahead to what’s coming and occasionally glance back at the past. I’m doing all of it simultaneously, which can be dizzying. There will be two d

PHILADELPHIA – On the final day of a 10-game road trip, at the end of a ballgame that started more than seven hours earlier, the Nationals were left with an exhausted bullpen and a weekend sweep at the hands of a division rival that has owned them all year long. Forced to take over in the third inning for starter Aníbal Sánchez thanks to a three-ho

Today the Orioles struggling offense met struggling lefty Rich Hill. The veteran southpaw got the better of it, throwing five scoreless innings to frustrate O’s hitters as Boston won the series finale. The Red Sox got just one run and that was in the first inning, but their pitching made it stand in a 1-0 win at Oriole Park. Hill and four relievers

The Orioles hope the weather forecast allows some time to get today's game in versus the Boston Red Sox with the clubs set to wrap up this three-game weekend series. The O's won 3-2 Friday, limiting Boston to two runs. But they gave up season highs in runs and hits on Saturday in a 17-4 loss. Today's game begins in a rain delay at the scheduled sta

PHILADELPHIA – News and notes before the Nationals (hopefully) take the field for their series finale against the Phillies (provided the weather holds up) … * Luis García is out of the lineup for the second straight day. Manager Davey Martinez said on Saturday the young second baseman was simply getting a breather and would be back for today’s game