The idea came to Fredi González as Cedric Mullins rounded the bases and returned to the dugout. He just needed to execute it.
González wanted the Orioles to stay in the dugout Friday night and allow Mullins to run onto the field alone for the top of the third inning. To let the crowd cheer him again for becoming the first player in club history with 30 home runs and 30 steals in the same season.
He saw it done before in Atlanta with one of the franchise's legendary players. Mullins...
Anthony Santander provided the first hit for the Orioles today with a game-tying, two-run homer in the fourth inning. It wasn't supposed to take that long or stand alone until the seventh.
John Means was extended to 108 pitches. They weren't supposed to be crammed into five innings.
An offense that scored three runs or fewer in five of the last six games remained sluggish most of the day and the Orioles settled for a split of the series after a 7-4 loss to the Rangers before 13,495 at Camden...
The Orioles have chosen catcher Adley Rutschman and outfielder Kyle Stowers as their Brooks Robinson Minor League Co-Players of the Year and Grayson Rodriguez as recipient of the Jim Palmer Minor League Pitcher of the Year Award.
The trio will be honored in a pregame ceremony before Tuesday night's game against the Red Sox at Camden Yards.
Rutschman, the first-overall pick in the 2019 draft out of Oregon State University and the No. 1 prospect in baseball, earned a promotion to Triple-A...
The final season countdown for the Orioles has brought them down to seven games before they tackle the various items on their winter and spring agenda. The arbitration and non-tender decisions, the trade talks at the annual meetings, the latest dive into free agency - and the risks that come from doing it in the shallow end.
In this instance, there are no signs posted that forbid it.
The construction of the 2022 team is only partially done. Like the frame of a house.
The upper level is the...
Tyler Wells, the Orioles' Rule 5 pick who emerged as their closer and most trusted high-leverage reliever, won't pitch again in 2021 due to right shoulder inflammation.
Wells was placed on the 10-day injured list with eight games remaining in the season. Spenser Watkins was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk.
Wells, the club's second choice in the Rule 5 draft after pitcher Mac Sceroler, posted a 4.11 ERA and 0.912 WHIP with four saves and 65 strikeouts in 57 innings. He faced one batter last...
Orioles outfielder Austin Hays returned to the dugout Thursday night after hitting his 22nd home run and saw Anthony Santander flash three fingers at him.
Hays turned around, made eye contact with Cedric Mullins and offered the same sign. Mullins, in return, waved his index finger at Hays.
Was it a running home run count, with Mullins needing one more for 30 that night and Hays needing three to reach 25?
"Yeah, that's what it was," Hays confirmed yesterday after taking his rounds of batting...
Teammates waved their arms at Cedric Mullins tonight after he returned to the dugout in the bottom of the second inning. Motioning him back onto the field. Demanding, in fact, that he accept a curtain call in celebration of his 30th home run and admission into an exclusive club.
One that now has its only member from the franchise.
Mullins stood on the dirt track and raised his batting helmet in appreciation of the loud ovation at Camden Yards. He slapped it a couple of times, still holding it...
Today's roster moves by the Orioles leave 10 players on the 10-day or 60-day injured lists. Only starter Bruce Zimmermann is a candidate to rejoin the active roster.
Keegan Akin has a left adductor strain that requires a surgical procedure. He's on the 10-day injured list, but could be moved to the 60-day if the club needs space on its 40-man roster.
"He's piled up a ton of innings," said manager Brandon Hyde, "and he's going to have a procedure done in the core region that we want to...
Orioles rookie left-hander Keegan Akin won't pitch again this season.
Akin was placed on the 10-day injured list this afternoon with a left adductor strain and is set to undergo a surgical procedure.
The Orioles recalled reliever Joey Krehbiel from Triple-A Norfolk and purchased the contract of catcher Nick Ciuffo from the Tides. They optioned pitcher Mike Baumann following last night's game because the rookie reached his innings limit of 80 2/3 between the majors and minors.
Krehbiel, signed...
The strikeouts kept coming from Zac Lowther. For five innings before his removal from the game. Leaving him four on a chilly night to sweat out whether he'd earn his first major league win.
The Orioles manufactured a run in the fourth inning, Ryan Mountcastle hit his 31st homer in the fifth and Austin Hays clubbed his 22nd in the eighth, and the bullpen protected Lowther's lead in a 3-0 victory over the Rangers before an announced crowd of 6,328 at Camden Yards.
Mountcastle took over the...
Asked yesterday how much he's looking forward to resting his legs after another physically taxing season, Orioles outfielder Anthony Santander smiled, raised his right pant leg to show the wrap on his calf and did the same with his left to reveal the wrap on his ankle and thigh.
At least he could still stand and also display good humor and the confidence that his return to the lineup was imminent.
Santander hasn't been in it for the past two games after injuring his left hamstring in the 10th...
Rookie Chris Ellis threw a bullpen session this afternoon at Camden Yards and remains a candidate to start this weekend against the Rangers.
Orioles manager Brandon Hyde was waiting for a health update after head athletic trainer Brian Ebel monitored the session.
"I should know here in about 20 minutes. Hopefully, he's good to go," Hyde said.
"If he's good to go, he'll pitch probably Saturday. And then (John Means) Sunday."
Hyde confirmed the infielder Ramón UrÃas won't play again...
The Orioles get a four-game break from contending opponents, facing the Rangers tonight with rookie Zac Lowther on the mound and a designated hitter back in their lineup.
Trey Mancini is the cleanup hitter and DH. Anthony Santander remains out of the lineup with a sore left hamstring.
Santander ran sprints earlier today and hit in the cage.
Austin Hays is in left field and Ryan McKenna is in right. Jahmai Jones is the second baseman.
Austin Wynns is catching.
Lowther is making his ninth...
The lineup was a late posting again yesterday. Manager Brandon Hyde explained that the Orioles had "a bunch of things going on right now."
It must have been quite a scene.
Bring players to Philadelphia and calculate how many are needed on the active roster and for which injured Orioles.
Outfielder Anthony Santander avoided the injured list, but didn't figure to be much of a contributor off the bench with a sore left hamstring. As if his sore left ankle needed company.
The starter for Sunday...
As the Orioles keep piling more players on their injured lists and going day-to-day with others who are ailing, they cherish every individual who stays in the lineup or rotation and seems determined to finish strong.
Keegan Akin, a couple starts removed from his six no-hit innings, shut out the Phillies over 5 1/3 and struck out six batters before Eric Hanhold replaced him. Austin Hays retained ownership of the month of September, his scorching bat producing a run-scoring double in the sixth...
The Orioles end their road trip tonight in Philadelphia with a few more roster moves pending.
Infielders Jahmai Jones and Tyler Nevin have joined the club and could be recalled from Triple-A Norfolk. Manager Brandon Hyde said there's also a fresh arm available for the bullpen as a possible transaction.
Hyde said, "We have a bunch of things going on right now," which includes pitcher Chris Ellis' arm fatigue, infielder Ramón UrÃas' sore right upper leg and Anthony Santander tweaking...
With so much turbulence striking the Orioles roster this summer, there was no reason to believe that the outfield would be unaffected. And that the depth so fiercely advertised throughout the winter and spring would protect it.
DJ Stewart is done for the last two weeks of the season and primed to undergo surgery on his right knee. A procedure to correct an "osteochondral defect," which also is known as "osteochondritis dissecans," which brings no clarity.
Basically, it's damage to the...
The bullpen game plotted tonight by Orioles manager Brandon Hyde began to live up to its definition perhaps a bit sooner than anticipated.
Conner Greene couldn't give the Orioles a second inning as the opener, his 24 pitches in a scoreless first against the Phillies beginning the parade of relievers.
Marcos Diplán tossed two scoreless innings. Thomas Eshelman stranded a runner in the fourth, retired the side in order in the fifth and struck out two batters in the sixth around J.T....
