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Manny Machado on his big night and his 150th homer

Manny Machado on his big night and his 150th homer
With two home runs tonight, Orioles shortstop Manny Machado became the youngest player in Baltimore Orioles team history to hit 150 home runs. He drove in six runs in a 9-4 win over the Tampa Bay Rays. He connected for a two-run shot in the first and that was No. 149. He hit a grand slam in the seventh for an 8-1 lead and that was No. 150. "It is a great accomplishment," Machado said. "Beyond grateful. Words can't even describe how exciting that is in reaching that milestone. Doing it with...
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Manny Machado with a grand slam and six-RBI night in O's win

Manny Machado with a grand slam and six-RBI night in O's win
Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman once again gave his team a strong start, but shortstop Manny Machado will grab the headlines tonight. Machado hit a two-run homer in the first to give Gausman an early lead. Then he hammered a grand slam in the seventh to help the Orioles pull away for a 9-4 win over Tampa Bay in the series opener. The Orioles are 11-27 and have a three-game winning streak, their first since they won seven in a row from Aug. 23-30 of last season. Machado hit his 11th and 12th...
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O's game blog: Kevin Gausman starts series opener against Tampa

O's game blog: Kevin Gausman starts series opener against Tampa
Perhaps energized by a series win over Kansas City where they scored 23 runs on 37 hits and hit seven home runs, the Orioles host Tampa Bay tonight. It's the start of a three-day, four-game series that includes Saturday's single-admission doubleheader. The O's are 10-27 after last night's 11-6 win. They fell behind 6-3 in the second and then scored the game's final eight runs. The Orioles went 6-for-7 with runners in scoring position last night after going 3-for-7 on Wednesday. They went...
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Tanner Scott on his strong outing last night

Tanner Scott on his strong outing last night
Orioles lefty reliever Tanner Scott has now made six big league appearances since his first call to the majors last September. It is safe to say the best of those was last night. Pitching the seventh and eighth against Kansas City, he put up two zeroes and fanned a career-high four batters. He threw 31 pitches, 24 for strikes and got eight swings and misses. His fastball averaged 98 mph, getting swings and misses on four of 20 pitches. His slider, which averaged 90 mph, garnered four swings and...
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Notes and quotes from a win in the K.C. series finale

Notes and quotes from a win in the K.C. series finale
After the third Chris Tillman start of two innings or less this season, last night, right-hander Miguel Castro came to the rescue of the Orioles pitching staff. Castro came in with the Orioles down 6-3 in the second inning and pitched long enough and well enough for the Orioles to score eight unanswered runs and win 11-6 to take the series over Kansas City. Castro pitched 4 2/3 innings, the second longest outing of his career, and gave up no runs on four hits on 65 pitches. "I just went out...
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Tillman on his struggles, Castro his outing and Mancini the offense

Tillman on his struggles, Castro his outing and Mancini the offense
The Orioles overcame another short start by Chris Tillman tonight. He allowed four hits and six runs in 1 1/3 and allowed a Salvador Perez first-inning grand slam. Yet the Orioles rallied for an 11-6 win over Kansas City to take a series for just the third time in 2018. Tillman gave up sevens runs in an inning-plus in his start before this one against the Los Angeles Angels. Tonight, his ERA rose to 10.46. Over his past two games he's pitched 2 1/3 innings, allowing 11 hits and 13 runs (12...
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Chris Tillman struggles, but offense produces 11-6 O's victory

Chris Tillman struggles, but offense produces 11-6 O's victory
On a night when right-hander Chris Tillman struggled badly again, the Orioles offense overcame an early hole and continued to show signs of potentially better times ahead for the batters. Down 4-0 after the top of the first, the Orioles hit three homers tonight as they rallied to beat Kansas City 11-6, to win the series at Oriole Park. The Orioles improved to 10-27 overall, 7-11 at home and to 3-9 in 12 series. They won for just the sixth time in the last 27 games. The Orioles have their second...
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O's game blog: Chris Tillman pitches K.C. series finale

O's game blog: Chris Tillman pitches K.C. series finale
The Orioles have just two series wins in 2018, going 2-9 in 11 series. They can win a third series tonight as they play the rubber match of a three-game series with Kansas City. The O's previous two series victories came when they took three of four April 5-8 at New York and they won two of three April 27-29 versus Detroit. Kansas City scored 10 runs in the first inning Tuesday on its way to a 15-7 win in the series opener. Chris Davis hit a three-run homer last night and Mark Trumbo singled...
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Richard Bleier gets few strikeouts but plenty of outs in the 'pen

Richard Bleier gets few strikeouts but plenty of outs in the 'pen
At a time when many pitchers are impressive for their premium velocity and/or strikeout rates, Orioles reliever Richard Bleier is thriving without either. Throwing an 88 mph fastball and sinker, he's again getting a lot of groundouts and he's again putting together a great year out of the Orioles bullpen. Last season he went 2-1 with a 1.99 ERA and averaged 3.7 strikeouts per nine innings. This season he is 3-0 with a 0.40 ERA and a 4.0 strikeout rate rate. He got the win last night and has...
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With Britton and O'Day out, Brach and Bleier come up big for the 'pen

With Britton and O'Day out, Brach and Bleier come up big for the 'pen
Manny Machado has been the best player on the Orioles this year. There is little debate over that one. But left-hander Richard Bleier has been the best Orioles pitcher, and there probably isn't much debate there, either. He pitched two scoreless last night when called on during the seventh inning of a 3-3 tie. He got two double plays and all six outs on grounders. He got the win against the Royals and is now 3-0 with a 0.40 ERA. Bleier has allowed one run in 22 2/3 innings for the season, and...
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Postgame comments from Brach, Trumbo and Cashner after O's win

Postgame comments from Brach, Trumbo and Cashner after O's win
It was a night when a few struggling or oft-criticized Orioles came through in a 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals. First baseman Chris Davis hit a three-run homer. Mark Trumbo's two-run single in the eighth broke a 3-3 tie and Brad Brach closed out the win, pitching around a leadoff walk and error in the ninth. Brach's ERA was up to 5.40 when he took the mound with that two-run lead. He walked Whit Merrifield, and Jonathan Schoop dropped a throw at second base that could have led to a...
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Mark Trumbo's two-run single in the eighth lifts O's to win

Mark Trumbo's two-run single in the eighth lifts O's to win
With a team batting average of just .220 with runners in scoring position, the Orioles have come up short in a few clutch spots this year. But tonight Mark Trumbo delivered a key two-run single in the eighth as the Orioles beat Kansas City. In his eighth game since coming off the disabled list, Trumbo's two-out, two-run single to center broke a 3-3 tie as the Orioles beat the Royals 5-3 to snap a seven-game losing streak. With the win the Orioles are 9-27 and won for just the second time in 10...
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O's game blog: O's try to end losing streak versus K.C.

O's game blog: O's try to end losing streak versus K.C.
As the Orioles (8-27) look to break a seven-game losing streak tonight, they host the Kansas City Royals in the second game of a three-game series and nine-game homestand. Right-hander Andrew Cashner (1-4, 4.89) will make his eighth start and fifth at home. Cashner went 1-1 with a 2.50 ERA over his first three starts, but over his past four he is 0-3 with a 6.97 ERA. He's allowed 28 hits and five homers over 20 2/3 in those games. Many of Cashner's stats come up short from his 2017...
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Catcher Caleb Joseph on Dylan Bundy's recent struggles

Catcher Caleb Joseph on Dylan Bundy's recent struggles
So how could Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy pitch so well over his first five starts and so poorly over his last three? It hopefully for him reached rock bottom last night when he faced seven hitters and gave up five hits, two walks and four homers in falling behind 7-0, without getting an out. Bundy is the first pitcher in the modern era (since 1900) to allow four or more homers without recording an out. The Royals tied their club record for most homers in one inning. They went on to score...
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Kansas City scores 10 in the first in rout of Orioles (Bundy quotes added)

Kansas City scores 10 in the first in rout of Orioles (Bundy quotes added)
Coming home off a second straight winless road trip and with a record 18 games under .500, the Orioles had to hope things would get better on this homestand. Tonight hope went out the window not long after the first pitch. Right-hander Dylan Bundy gave up four homers and failed to get an out in the first inning as the Kansas City Royals hammered the Orioles at Camden Yards. The Royals scored 10 runs on nine hits in the opening inning on the way to a 15-7 blowout of Baltimore. Just when it...
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O's game blog: Dylan Bundy on the mound in homestand opener

O's game blog: Dylan Bundy on the mound in homestand opener
The Orioles have won just one of five home series this year. But after 12 straight road losses, Oriole Park should feel very friendly to the team tonight in the opener of a three-game series with Kansas City. Tonight begins a three-team, nine-game homestand that includes Saturday's single-admission doubleheader with Tampa Bay. The Orioles went 0-6 on a road trip to Anaheim and Oakland, and they scored just one run in losing the last two games versus the Athletics. The Orioles are 2-18 when...
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Jonathan Schoop on his return to the Orioles

Jonathan Schoop on his return to the Orioles
The Orioles will happily welcome back one of their key players tonight. Second baseman Jonathan Schoop returns to the lineup, batting fourth at second base against Kansas City. Yep, he goes right into the cleanup spot. Schoop has been out since he got injured April 13 at Boston. He suffered a right oblique strain and the Orioles went 3-17 without him. He played in rehab games since Friday at Double-A Bowie, Triple-A Norfolk and Single-A Frederick, going 2-for-13. "I'm real excited. Excited to...
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Would Birdland be on board with a rebuild?

Would Birdland be on board with a rebuild?
The Orioles have only played 21 percent of their season. In an NFL season, we would be in week four. But they have fallen so far, so fast, they seem to have left team management little choice. At some point - and maybe it will be very soon - they are probably left with one clear move: Rebuild, and begin the process of trying to put together the next great Orioles team. Maybe that effort will eventually come up short, but the current effort to contend is failing big. The Orioles were mostly a...
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During another winless road trip, O's offense came up way short

During another winless road trip, O's offense came up way short
The Orioles seem like a boat taking on water right now and every hole that gets plugged just seems to open another. Or two others. The rotation has been inconsistent, the bullpen worse than expected, the defense has been at times just terrible and other times very mediocre. Good has not been part of the equation many nights on defense. But the Orioles offense has under-performed in a big way. For several years the Orioles have been around or just above a league-average run-scoring offense in...
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O's game blog: Alex Cobb faces the A's in road trip finale

O's game blog: Alex Cobb faces the A's in road trip finale
The Orioles are a loss away from a second straight winless and 0-6 road trip. They lost 2-0 in 12 innings at Oakland last night when Khris Davis hit a two-run homer to end it off Pedro Araujo. The Orioles are 8-25 overall and have now lost 11 consecutive road games. The team record is 13 in a row on the road in 1988. The Orioles have been swept in three-game series at Houston, Boston, Detroit and Anaheim. A loss today and they can add Oakland to that list. The Orioles went 3-1 in a road series...
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