Needing a fresh arm after position player Stevie Wilkerson had to pitch the last two innings last night, the Orioles today recalled pitcher Branden Kline from Triple-A Norfolk as outfielder Keon Broxton was designated for assignment.
Kline is back to try and unlock the key to major league success. In three previous stints in the bigs this year, he is 1-4 with a 6.75 ERA over 20 games. Over his past 11 big league games, his ERA is 10.03 over 11 2/3 innings.
"Really trying to get ahead and...
The Orioles and Red Sox have exchanged blowout wins and they wrap up their three-game series this afternoon at Oriole Park. The Orioles won 11-2 Friday and lost 17-6 last night as they allowed 10 or more runs for the 19th time.
Anthony Santander produced his first four-hit game Saturday night as he raised his average from .280 to .299. He has homered in back-to-back games for the second time this season. Four of his six home runs have come from the left side of the plate, and five of his seven...
The Orioles enjoyed blowout wins Wednesday and Friday when their pitching staff gave up two runs each night. But in allowing 17 runs last night, they absorbed a 17-6 blowout loss to Boston.
It was the 19th time that the Orioles have allowed 10 runs or more, tied for the major league lead with Seattle. According to STATS, they've allowed 12 runs or more 12 times this year to lead the majors, with Colorado next with eight such games. They've allowed 16 runs or more four times to lead the major...
When they fell behind early by five runs, the Orioles pulled even on the scoreboard. When they fell behind by 11, that was too big of a hole to dig out of.
Boston scored eight runs in the fourth and three in the fifth and turned what was once a 5-5 tie into a blowout win tonight. They beat the Orioles 17-6 in front of 21,339 at Camden Yards.
With one out and none on in the Boston fourth, O's shortstop Richie Martin made an error. Ironically it made all eight runs the Red Sox would score that...
After back-to-back blowout wins by 9-2 over Washington and 11-2 over Boston, the Orioles host the Red Sox again tonight. It's Game 2 of a three-game series and nine-game homestand. The Orioles (30-66) are 3-4 on the homestand that ends Sunday afternoon.
Last night the Orioles improved to 4-7 against Boston, 15-29 versus the American League East and scored 10 runs or more for the fifth time in 2019. They won their 30th game in Game 96 in 2019 and did that in Game 104 last season.
The Orioles...
Hard-throwing lefty Tanner Scott is back again with the Orioles, officially added today from Triple-A Norfolk. Maybe this is the time he will stay for good after he's spent most of the last two months on the farm throwing well and throwing strikes.
"I was just trying to do my job and get outs and the past couple of times at Norfolk were really good. Just trying to win a ballgame and go day-by-day and try to get wins," said Scott this afternoon.
Scott is not sure if pitching well leads to...
So the Orioles went six games recently scoring 13 runs total in that span. Now they've scored 20 runs their last two games in beating Washington 9-2 and Boston 11-2. The Orioles have 28 hits, including four home runs, in the two games.
A few thoughts on last night's win over Boston:
* If you worried that John Means would turn into a pumpkin at midnight, forget it. Means slowed down a Boston team that was 14-2 in its last 16 road games, 19-10 in its last 29 overall and led the majors in runs...
After giving up a season-high six runs and three homers in his first post All-Star Game start, Orioles left-hander John Means was looking to get back on the horse tonight.
He did. He had a strong ride against a good offense, pitching the Orioles past Boston 11-2 in the series opener at Camden Yards. It didn't hurt his cause that the O's offense produced a second straight strong game.
Means produced a pre-All-Star Game ERA of 2.50, the best ever by an Orioles rookie. If there was concern the...
The Orioles' homestand continues this weekend as they host the Boston Red Sox for three games beginning tonight. The Orioles (29-66) went 1-3 against Tampa Bay and 1-1 against Washington to begin the homestand.
The Orioles are 2-5 their past seven games but 7-8 over the last 15 games. Over longer stretches, they have lost 25 of 35 and 37 of the last 51 games. Baltimore is 9-22 in series-opening games. The Orioles are 14-29 versus American League East teams and 3-7 against Boston, including a...
After a day away from the team for the birth of his second daughter, Hanser Alberto has rejoined the Orioles tonight. The 26-year-old infielder brings with him a .306 batting average that ranks seventh-best in the American League and 14th in the majors.
"Feels great. To be a dad for the second time is amazing. Baby is good, mommy is good. Life is good. Now I have to work even harder. Now I've got two," Alberto said, flashing that smile seen so often this year.
He was asked if he told his new...
We could not have expected this when the Double-A Bowie Baysox were 7-23 on May 5. That was the worst record in all of minor league baseball. But the Baysox have been winning big ever since, and they were 20-7 in June and are 12-3 in July. They are 44-21 since that low point and have the Eastern League's best second-half record at 21-6.
There are many reasons they charged into first-place in the second-half Eastern League race. A solid offense led by guys like Mason McCoy, Rylan Bannon and...
The Orioles scored just one run in a loss Sunday and one run in Tuesday's 8-1 loss to Washington. Then last night they trailed 2-1 going to the bottom of the seventh. Was another loss with just one run scored in the offing?
Not this time.
The O's offense, which had scored just eight runs the last four games and 12 runs in five games since the All-Star break, finally broke out. They scored three runs in the seventh and five runs in the eighth to beat the Nationals 9-2 at Oriole Park. They...
The Orioles and Washington Nationals end their brief two-game series tonight at Oriole Park. The Nats outhit Baltimore 12-4 last night in an 8-1 win. Matt Adams homered onto Eutaw Street and Juan Soto hit a 443-foot homer in the Washington victory.
Tonight's game will not start on time due to rain. No start has been given but it surely looks like they'll get the game in tonight.
The O's offense has produced just two runs and seven hits in the last two games and just 13 runs over the past six...
For an eight-game stretch from June 28 through July 6, the next-to-last game before the All-Star break, the Orioles offense produced 53 runs. But they were held to one run in the final game before the break and the offense has been slow ever since.
Over the last six games, the Orioles have scored just 13 runs. In the last two games, they've scored just two runs on seven hits. After the combined near-perfect game by Tampa Bay on Sunday, the O's lost 8-1 last night to the Washington...
They avoided being on the wrong side of a combined perfect game Sunday, but the Orioles still lost to Tampa Bay and dropped three of four games in that series. They host the Washington Nationals tonight to begin a brief two-game interleague series. The homestand continues this weekend against Boston.
The Orioles (28-65) are now 5-23-2 in 30 series in 2019. They are 9-21 in series-opening games. They are 12-34 at home and 2-12-1 in home series. The Orioles are 6-7 over their past 13 games and...
When the Orioles and Washington Nationals play the next two nights at Camden Yards, the player once considered the Nats catcher of the future will be in the Baltimore dugout.
Pedro Severino, who turns 26 on Saturday, was signed for $55,000 by the Nationals out of the Dominican Republic in December of 2010. For five straight years starting in 2013, he was ranked among Washington's top 16 prospects. He reached a high of No. 9 after the 2016 season.
Always considered a solid defender with a...
The Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds are no longer the only farm team Orioles fans can feel excited about it. Now there are several in terms of won-loss records.
Through Sunday's games, three O's teams are in first place and another is one game out. Starting at the highest-level, Double-A Bowie has been on a winning roll for several weeks now. The Baysox are 29-9 since June 1.
They are 18-5 in the Eastern League second-half race for the best record and they lead their division by 2 1/2 games....
On Friday, before the Orioles traded pitcher Andrew Cashner yesterday, I asked Trey Mancini about the possibility of trade rumors becoming a distraction for the Orioles before this month is out.
He looked back to last season when the Orioles pulled the trigger on several July trades that sent Manny Machado and several of Mancini's teammates out of Baltimore.
"It was a strange year last year for sure being around for that," said Mancini. "Especially that last day. We all knew that Manny...
The Orioles have lost just one of their past three series and they'll need a win this afternoon to split this series with the Tampa Bay Rays. The Rays have won two of three in this series which ends this afternoon at Oriole Park.
The past four series has seen the Orioles go 2-1 versus Cleveland, 1-2 versus Tampa Bay, 2-1 against Toronto and 2-1 against the Rays.
The Orioles (28-64) are 6-6 in the last 12 games and 12-33 at home. The Orioles won Game 1 of Saturday's twinbill 2-1 and lost 12-4...
The Orioles beat Tampa Bay 2-1 in Game 1 of today's split doubleheader and host the Rays tonight in the nightcap in Game 3 of a four-game series.
Baltimore pitchers held Tampa Bay to three hits and Stevie Wilkerson hit a go-ahead two-run homer in the last of the seventh. He hit it that off lefty Colin Poche and had been 4-for-49 versus lefties until the homer.
The O's pitchers shut down the Tampa offense after yielding 16 runs and 20 hits to the same team last night. Mychal Givens got the...