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Yard Work: Episode 5

Yard Work: Episode 5
Hey, O's fans! Welcome to the crossover edition of the Yard Work podcast. This week, I'm joined by District 34 podcast hosts Bobby Blanco and Byron Kerr as the Battle of the Beltways gets underway for the 2017 season. It's become a rivalry featuring two of the game's top teams, and this year is no exception. Both the Nationals and Orioles boast two of the best records in baseball. The Orioles got a terrific outing from starter Kevin Gausman in Monday's series opener, helping the Birds to a...
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Dillon Atkinson: All aboard the Norfolk shuttle

Dillon Atkinson: All aboard the Norfolk shuttle
In the past couple of seasons, depth for the back end of the Orioles rotation and front end of the bullpen has been fairly thin. For the most part, it was Tyler Wilson, Mike Wright, T.J. McFarland and - for 2016 only - Vance Worley. In 2017, Orioles executive vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette has made sure manager Buck Showalter has had more options to choose from, and the O's skipper is using all that he can. Wilson and Wright are still around, joined by Alec Asher, Logan...
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Luke Erickson: Sharing some minor league travel tips

Luke Erickson: Sharing some minor league travel tips
One of the joys of following minor league baseball is going to see your favorite team on the road. Since 2006, I've been to the stadiums of eight of the nine opposing teams in the Single-A Carolina League, and every Nationals affiliate north of Florida (including short-season Single-A Vermont in 2010). This week, I'm aiming to take care of the ninth Carolina League stadium (Buies Creek) while I'm on vacation here in North Carolina, though it'll be against the Salem Red Sox (the vacation was...
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Andrew Stetka: Britton's injury reveals disturbing trend, bigger test for O's

Andrew Stetka: Britton's injury reveals disturbing trend, bigger test for O's
As if the Orioles haven't been faced with enough challenges in the first month or so of the season, they'll now stare down another tough task. Zach Britton's latest setback is a tough pill to swallow for Orioles fans, and not just those that (cough, cough) may have him on their fantasy team. It was devastating to see the dominant closer go down on April 16 with the initial indications of the forearm strain. When he was reinstated last week and made two appearances in non-save situations,...
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Marty Niland: A Nats fan's response to a youngster in search of a team

Marty Niland: A Nats fan's response to a youngster in search of a team
Baseball fans may have heard the story of Pete Van Vleet of Ashland, Va., who wrote to every major league team, asking each to make a case for his newborn son, Jack, to be their fan. The 42-year-old Richmond native, a former colleague at The Associated Press, did not have a home team to root for growing up, and chose the Houston Astros because they were a National League contender in the early 1980s. He wants his kids to choose a team as he did. His 5-year-old daughter, Madeline, roots for the...
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Opposite dugout: Orioles using new tricks to produce similar results

Opposite dugout: Orioles using new tricks to produce similar results
Manager: Buck Showalter (8th season) Record: 20-10 Last 10 games: 6-4 Who to watch: 3B Manny Machado (.237 average with 8 HR, 21 RBIs); 2B Jonathan Schoop (.296 average with 5 HR, 17 RBIs); CF Adam Jones (.268 average with 33 hits); RHP Dylan Bundy (5-1, 2.17 ERA); LHP Wade Miley (1-1, 2.27 ERA). Season series vs. Nationals: First meeting (3-1 in 2016) Pitching probables: May 8: LHP Gio Gonzalez vs. RHP Kevin Gausman, 7:05 p.m., MASN2May 9: RHP Max Scherzer vs. RHP Ubaldo Jiménez, 7:05 p.m.,...
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Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: "Hero of the Empire"

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: "Hero of the Empire"
I guess sometimes you just know. Winston Churchill just knew he was going to be the prime minister of England, and early on he set our to show a nation that he was right for that job. For Churchill, that meant joining the armed forces and looking for trouble. He found it, and that is the subject of Candice Millard's "Hero of the Empire," about the young and not-to-be-deterred Churchill. One would be hard-pressed to believe a story such as this could happen today. The means to leadership...
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Zach Wilt: Birds bounce back from ejections, but still deal with ripple effects

Zach Wilt: Birds bounce back from ejections, but still deal with ripple effects
There were many frustrating aspects to umpire Sam Holbrook's decision to eject Kevin Gausman in the bottom of the second during Wednesday night's Orioles-Red Sox game. For starters, Chris Sale threw behind Manny Machado the night before and got nothing more than a warning. Gausman got tossed for plunking Xander Bogaerts on a 77 mph breaking ball without either club receiving warnings from the crew. Who intentionally hits a guy with an off-speed pitch? Gausman's average fastball velocity,...
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David Huzzard: Nats dispelling some back luck by racking up wins

David Huzzard: Nats dispelling some back luck by racking up wins
Adam Eaton is out for the season, Bryce Harper left yesterday's game with a groin strain, the back end of the rotation is a mess with a career minor leaguer just being inserted as the fifth starter and then there's the bullpen, and I think we all know the problems there. Yet the Nationals are 19-9, the best record in the major leagues. The Nationals are having the same bad luck with starters staying healthy they've always had and now have issues with pitching depth. And yet they just keep...
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Opposite dugout: Phillies coming along, but have plenty to work on

Opposite dugout: Phillies coming along, but have plenty to work on
Manager: Pete Mackanin (3rd season) Record: 12-15 Last 10 games: 4-6 Who to watch: 2B César Hernández (.336 average with 39 hits), 3B Maikel Franco (.231 average with 5 HR, 25 RBIs), RHP Jeremy Hellickson (4-1, 3.18 ERA), RHP Héctor Neris (0-1, 3 saves) Season series vs. Nationals: 3-3 Pitching probables: May 5: RHP Stephen Strasburg vs. RHP Nick Pivetta, 7:05 p.m., MASNMay 6: TBA vs. RHP Vince Velasquez, 7:05 p.m., MASNMay 7: RHP Tanner Roark vs. RHP Jeremy Hellickson, 2:35 p.m.,...
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MASN returning to WTMD's First Thursday concerts

MASN returning to WTMD's First Thursday concerts
Next Up: The next WTMD First Thursday show is Thursday, June 1. Visit us at Canton Waterfront Park! The weather is warming up and summer will be here before we know it. To help get you excited for warm, summer nights at The Yard, we'll be on-site Thursday, May 4 for the first of WTMD's First Thursday concerts of the season! MASN's giveaway tent will be set up for the concert at Canton Waterfront Park. The concert is gearing up to be bigger and better than ever with two stages. All evening...
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Yard Work: Episode 4

Yard Work: Episode 4
Hey, O's fans! Welcome to the latest installment of Yard Work. On this week's episode ... Last weekend it seemed like the hearts of Orioles fans were filled with despair and disgust. A three-game series in the Bronx was full of drama and heartache, most notably the team's collapse Friday during the series opener. Still, it was foolish to think any team was going to win every series. It's a long season and pitfalls happen. But what did this past weekend's series say about the Orioles - and...
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Dillon Atkinson: Machado displaying maturity through incidents with Red Sox

Dillon Atkinson: Machado displaying maturity through incidents with Red Sox
In a 10-day span, Orioles third baseman Manny Machado has been thrown at five times in two games. After the fifth one, Tuesday night from the live arm of Red Sox's ace southpaw Chris Sale, Machado finally had some choice words for the Red Sox, and he certainly didn't hold back his true feelings. He used many expletives in his postgame rant, stating that he has lost all respect for the Red Sox organization. I'll note that there may now be 29 teams - instead of 30 - in contention for...
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Luke Erickson: What it means to be the next man up on the farm

Luke Erickson: What it means to be the next man up on the farm
For those of you interested in gambl ... er, fantasy baseball, you're probably well aware of the depth charts that are created for the minors for dynasty leagues. But even if you're not, the Nationals have made you aware of who's the supposed next man up with their inability to dodge injuries. Adam Eaton is the latest starter to be lost for the season, and for now, the plan is to give backup Michael A. Taylor the chance to win the center field job for the third season in a row. This hasn't...
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Andrew Stetka: Baseball fandom is difficult

Andrew Stetka: Baseball fandom is difficult
Being a baseball fan is very hard. If you are devoted to a specific team in the way many readers of this website are devoted to the Orioles, it can be even harder. This is something I've written about in length over the years, but it deserves to be repeated. Especially after what we just saw. You live and die with every game and react to every play. That couldn't have been more on display this weekend in New York City, as the O's battled the Yankees. Over the past three days, the Orioles...
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Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises"

Hitting the Books with Gary Thorne: "Fiesta: The Sun Also Rises"
"I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together, and I always had a suspicion that perhaps Robert Cohn had never been middleweight boxing champion, and that perhaps a horse had stepped on his facer, or that maybe his mother has been frightened or seen something, or that he had, maybe, bumped into something as a young child, but I finally had somebody verify the story from Spider Kelly." Not bad for the writer considered to be the master of the simple...
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Zach Wilt: Checking in on the O's at the 20-game mark

Zach Wilt: Checking in on the O's at the 20-game mark
I'll be honest, in baseball terms 20 is a pretty arbitrary number. Sure, it's nice and even, but it's just 12.3 percent of the way through the baseball season. In fact, if the Orioles weren't off yesterday, we probably all would have completely ignored the 20-game milestone and moved on without thinking twice about. But they were off, they're beginning a new series today, and 20 games seems like a great time to take a moment and reflect on what we've seen from our O's so far. The Birds...
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Opposite dugout: Mets scuffling as injury bug bites hard

Opposite dugout: Mets scuffling as injury bug bites hard
Manager: Terry Collins (7th season) Record: 8-13 Last 10 games: 1-9 Who to watch: RF Jay Bruce (.289 average with 6 HR, 14 RBIs); OF Michael Conforto (.302 average with 4 HR, 8 RBIs); 2B Neil Walker (17 hits, 27 total bases); SP Jacob deGrom (0-1, 2.55 ERA); RP Addison Reed (3.38 ERA, 4 saves) Season series vs. Nationals: 0-3 Pitching probables: April 28: RHP Jacob deGrom vs. RHP Stephen Strasburg, 7:05 p.m., MASN2April 29: RHP Zack Wheeler vs. RHP Max Scherzer, 1:05 p.m., MASN2April 30: TBA...
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Yard Work: Episode 3

Yard Work: Episode 3
Hey, O's fans. Welcome to the latest edition of Yard Work. On this week's episode... Following their first road trip of the season, the Orioles returned home for a quick six-game homestand against American League East foes Boston and Tampa Bay. Of course, despite the fact the Birds took two out of three vs. the Red Sox, the biggest news seemed to be last Friday's incident between Manny Machado and Dustin Pedroia, not to be outdone by Sunday's drama between Machado and Red Sox reliever Matt...
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Dillon Atkinson: It's early, but Adam Jones looks like a new player

Dillon Atkinson: It's early, but Adam Jones looks like a new player
When you think of Orioles center fielder Adam Jones in his prime, what comes to mind? If you asked me, I'd bring up the obvious observations: 25-plus home-run hitter, .280-plus batting average, low on-base skills, free swinger and an all-around above average defender in center field. Oftentimes as Orioles fans, we took the good with the bad. Jones has been known as a frustrating hitter in two-strike counts, as fans would always point out, "Here comes the 1-2 slider in the dirt, and we know...
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