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O's game blog: Alex Cobb makes his Orioles debut

O's game blog: Alex Cobb makes his Orioles debut
The time has finally come for new Orioles right-hander Alex Cobb. After signing with the club on March 21 and making four starts in Florida, Cobb's first game for the Orioles is set for this afternoon at Fenway Park. The 30-year-old right-hander was 12-10 with a 3.66 ERA for the Tampa Bay Rays last season. His ERA was 4.52 after his first 12 starts. But in his last 17, Cobb went 8-5 with an ERA of 3.07, allowing three earned runs or less 14 times. He set career highs in wins, innings (179 1/3)...
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Chris Tillman continues to struggle as his ERA reaches double figures

Chris Tillman continues to struggle as his ERA reaches double figures
Pitching against Houston, New York and Boston on the road would be a challenge for any pitcher. But the Orioles' Chris Tillman has gone 0-3 with a 11.91 ERA in those games. Last night it went from bad to worse for the right-hander who once was the club's top starting pitcher and an opening day starter. It is tough to watch a pitcher with such a different past struggle so badly. Last year Tillman went 1-7 with a 7.84 ERA. After he pitched at Houston April 2, he insisted we would not see a...
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O's game blog: Chris Tillman starts Fenway Park series opener

O's game blog: Chris Tillman starts Fenway Park series opener
Orioles right-hander Chris Tillman remains confident he is a different and better pitcher than he was last year. But so far, the stat sheet doesn't provide much support of that. When the Orioles begin a four-game series in Boston tonight, Tillman (0-2, 8.68 ERA) will make his third start. In his first outing of 2018 he gave up four runs over four innings in Houston. Then he allowed five in 5 1/3 at New York. Over 9 1/3 innings he has yielded 15 hits and nine runs with eight walks to three...
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Austin Hays is back at Bowie, adding polish to his offensive game

Austin Hays is back at Bowie, adding polish to his offensive game
When I interviewed outfielder Austin Hays before the game Wednesday night at Double-A Bowie, his batting average was just .160 in his first six games of the year. You knew Hays would start hitting soon, but you couldn't know then that it would be just hours away. But during Bowie's win over Erie that night, Hays batted four times. He lined a single to center in the first and hit a long homer to left center in the eighth. In between, he lined out twice. Four at-bats and he squared up four...
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With rotation trending up, a key reinforcement is on the way

With rotation trending up, a key reinforcement is on the way
BOWIE, Md. - Just as the Orioles rotation is starting to produce positive results, providing a real lift to a team in the midst of a brutally tough schedule, a key reinforcement is about to be added to the mix. Right-hander Alex Cobb, signed on March 21, has now made four essentially spring training-type outings and his season is about to begin for real. Cobb joins the improved O's rotation on Saturday afternoon at Boston. He jumps right into the fire, so to speak, with his Orioles debut in...
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O's game blog: Kevin Gausman pitches Toronto series finale

O's game blog: Kevin Gausman pitches Toronto series finale
After 7-1 and 2-1 losses, the Orioles need a win at home tonight to avoid getting swept three straight by the Toronto Blue Jays. The Orioles are 4-8 and Toronto is 8-4. Toronto is 3-0-1 in its four series. They split four with the Yankees and then won two of three from both the White Sox and Rangers. A Toronto win tonight would give them their first three-game sweep in Baltimore since July 16-18, 2010. O's starters Dylan Bundy and Andrew Cashner combined to pitch 14 innings allowing just two...
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In Bowie, Alex Cobb talks about making his Orioles debut

In Bowie, Alex Cobb talks about making his Orioles debut
BOWIE, Md. - Today Alex Cobb took the mound in an empty ballpark at Double-A Bowie. It was one last bullpen session before the season begins for the new Orioles right-hander. But it will be very different Saturday. He'll take the mound in Fenway Park, most likely in a packed stadium and in a much different atmosphere, and face the current American League East-leading Boston Red Sox for his Orioles debut. Signed by the O's to a four-year deal worth $57 million with deferrals on March 21,...
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Chance Sisco on Andrew Cashner, the offense and more (plus farm notes)

Chance Sisco on Andrew Cashner, the offense and more (plus farm notes)
The Orioles came home from winning three of four in New York in need of some deep starting pitching performances to rest a taxed bullpen. Right-handers Dylan Bundy and Andrew Cashner delivered. They combined to allow two runs over 14 innings over the past two night, yet the Orioles have lost both games to Toronto. Scoring one run each night will cause that to happen. The team that was so desperate for much of 2017 to get good starting pitching has seen Bundy and Cashner combine for an ERA of...
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Curtis Granderson's homer in the ninth leads Toronto to 2-1 win

Curtis Granderson's homer in the ninth leads Toronto to 2-1 win
The Orioles avoided being no-hit and shut out tonight, but they could not avoid another loss. Curtis Granderson's solo homer in the ninth off Darren O'Day broke a 1-1 tie as the Blue Jays beat the Orioles 2-1. They've taken the first two games of this series to leave the Orioles at 4-8. After the momentum of the series win in New York, now the O's must win tomorrow to avoid being swept three straight at home, where they are 1-4 this season. Granderson hit a 1-2 O'Day fastball onto the flag...
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O's game blog: Andrew Cashner faces Toronto

O's game blog: Andrew Cashner faces Toronto
Orioles right-hander Andrew Cashner (1-1, 4.09 ERA) makes his third start for his new team tonight at chilly Camden Yards. He will try to pitch the Orioles even in this three-game series following Toronto's 7-1 win last night. Cashner allowed three homers and five runs in his first O's start against Minnesota. And then on Thursday night he got his first win with Baltimore in a 5-2 victory at New York. Over six innings he allowed two hits and one run on 100 pitches. So far lefty batters are...
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How Darren O'Day was impressed from the start by Pedro Araujo

How Darren O'Day was impressed from the start by Pedro Araujo
He has only pitched in five major league games so far, but 24-year-old Dominican-born Pedro Araujo is impressing Orioles fans and is also gaining fans inside the clubhouse as well. Araujo was charged with four runs in 2/3 of an inning in a game at Houston. Then the right-hander bounced back to pitch 4 1/3 scoreless when he pitched in both extra innings games over the weekend in New York. Friday night he got his first major league win. Sunday he fanned five batters over 2 1/3 innings, his most...
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A look at the inconsistent offense and a strong start on the farm

A look at the inconsistent offense and a strong start on the farm
Orioles manager Buck Showalter sometimes says "There was a game to be won there" after an Oriole loss, and that statement was certainly true last night. Yes the game got away in the top of the ninth, but if the Orioles offense had gotten something going before that, we would not have seen Nestor Cortes Jr. try to pitch out of a bases-loaded jam in the ninth. Some could second-guess the skipper for even bringing him into a situation down 2-1 in the ninth, but I get back to the offense. The...
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Dylan Bundy on his outing, Hunter Harvey on his call-up

Dylan Bundy on his outing, Hunter Harvey on his call-up
The Orioles went to the ninth tonight trailing 2-1. They lost 7-1 when the Toronto Blue Jays added five runs. Up to that point, right-hander Dylan Bundy seemed headed for a tough-luck loss. Over seven innings, he allowed just two runs and both came on one swing. Former Oriole Steve Pearce got green-lighted and hit a 3-0 fastball 438 feet to left for a 2-0 lead in the top of the third. "I really wasn't thinking he'd swing 3-0 and he did," Bundy said. "I left it right down the middle for him...
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Bundy solid, but offense slowed in 7-1 loss to Toronto

Bundy solid, but offense slowed in 7-1 loss to Toronto
For the third time this season, Orioles starter Dylan Bundy gave his team a strong start. For the third time, he got little run support. The Orioles went 0-for-12 tonight with runners in scoring position in a 7-1 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays. They began a three-game series with the loss to fall to 1-3 at home and to 4-7 for the season. A very chilly but small crowd of 7,915 looked on at Camden Yards. Toronto turned a 2-1 lead into a 7-1 win, scoring five runs in the ninth. Nestor Cortes Jr....
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O's game blog: Dylan Bundy pitches Toronto series opener

O's game blog: Dylan Bundy pitches Toronto series opener
After a road trip where they went 0-3 at Houston and 3-1 at New York, the Orioles get a brief chance to play a few games at home starting tonight. They'll host Toronto for a three-game series at Camden Yards before they go back on the road. The Orioles produced a couple of wild extra-inning wins at Yankee Stadium to take that series after going 2-8 there last season. Right-hander Dylan Bundy (0-0, 0.69 ERA) makes his third start of the season tonight. Bundy began the year pitching on opening...
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Caleb Joseph on Sunday's unexpected heroes and more

Caleb Joseph on Sunday's unexpected heroes and more
It would be one thing for the Orioles to win a big game in Yankee Stadium with the middle of their order doing most of the damage and/or Dylan Bundy or Zach Britton on the mound, but it was quite another on Sunday in the Bronx. The Orioles pulled out the 12-inning, 8-7 win with two Rule picks 5 contributing big in outfielder Anthony Santander and pitcher Pedro Araujo. Backup outfielder Craig Gentry made a game-saving catch in the 10th and later produced the winning single. And there were so...
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Brach's great escape was final act as O's win three of four in the Bronx

Brach's great escape was final act as O's win three of four in the Bronx
Of all the crazy things that took place over 4 hours, 48 minutes and 12 innings on Sunday, the most improbable may have been saved for last. Orioles closer Brad Brach - in the span of a few pitches - went from a goat, and potentially blowing a key save, to one of the heroes. All he had to do to achieve that was face Aaron Judge and Giancarlo Stanton with the bases loaded and no outs and his team leading by one. Good luck with that. No place to put them. No chance to pitch around them. Stanton...
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O's game blog: Orioles look for series win at New York

O's game blog: Orioles look for series win at New York
After losing three series and going 2-8 at Yankee Stadium last season, the Orioles can win a series there with a victory this afternoon. They have taken two of three in New York heading into the series finale. The Yankees (5-4) are 3-2 on a six-game homestand that ends today. Baltimore (3-6) is 2-4 on a seven-game road trip that ends today. Right-hander Mike Wright Jr. (0-0, 5.40 ERA) makes his second start today. He went five innings on Tuesday night at Houston in a no-decision. He gave up...
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Britton on Buck the manager, but not that one (plus other notes)

Britton on Buck the manager, but not that one (plus other notes)
When the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds began a new season on Thursday, the other Buck started his career as a minor league manager. Buck Britton, the older brother of Orioles closer Zach Britton, is the Shorebirds' first-year manager. An O's 35th-round selection in the 2008 draft, Britton had a nine-year playing career in the minors. He moved into the coaching ranks last season when he was Delmarva's hitting coach. In his second year as a non-player, he begins his first as a minor league...
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O's game blog: Chris Tillman faces the Yankees

O's game blog: Chris Tillman faces the Yankees
After recording back-to-back wins for the first time in the 2018 season, the Orioles are shooting for three in a row this afternoon as they face the Yankees in New York. They scored five runs in the seventh inning to win 5-2 Thursday night and they won 7-3 in 14 innings Friday night/Saturday morning. Pedro Álvarez hit a grand slam in the 14th, the Orioles fourth homer of the night. It capped a long night and a wild win. Rule 5 pitcher Pedro Araujo threw two scoreless to get his first major...
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