The Orioles' win last night over Chicago improved their home record to 8-1. That is the best home record in the major leagues. Kansas City, at 8-3, has the second-best American League home record.
The Orioles have pitched well at home this year with an ERA of 2.09 and a .219 batting average against. They have outscored their opponents 42-21 and out-homered them 13-6 at Camden Yards, where they have a team batting average of .299.
The Orioles hit three homers in last night's 10-2 win. Chris...
The Orioles were already leading the Chicago White Sox by four runs when Manny Machado batted against Jake Petricka with the bases loaded in the sixth inning.
He looked to put a jolt into the ball and he did. Machado hit his second career grand slam and drove in a career-high five runs in the Orioles' 10-2 win over the White Sox.
Beating the team with the best record in the league was not a bad way to start a 10-game homestand.
"Just going up there being aggressive," Machado said of his...
Orioles third baseman Manny Machado had a rare run of four straight games without a hit. He ended that tonight. And the Orioles ended the Chicago White Sox's six-game winning streak.
The Sox entered with an American League best 16-6 record and a team ERA of 2.24. But they allowed a season-high in runs tonight as the O's beat Chicago 10-2 to start a four-game series and 10-game homestand.
The Orioles had scored just five runs their last four games but broke out big tonight. They hit three...
Since scoring eight runs in a win at Kansas City on Saturday night, the Orioles have scored just one, zero, one and three in their last four games.
As they try to break out on offense, they begin a 10-game homestand tonight against the team with the best pitching so far in the American League. The Orioles host the 16-6 Chicago White Sox to start a four-game series.
Chicago's 2.24 team ERA leads the American League by a wide margin. Tampa Bay is next at 3.20. The White Sox lead the AL in...
Will we see a battle of the bullpens at Camden Yards over the next four days when two American League division leaders meet? The AL East leading Orioles (12-8) host the AL Central leading Chicago White Sox (16-6), who own the best record in the American League.
The White Sox have gotten off to a stunning start on the mound. Their pitchers have allowed one or zero runs in half of their games so far, 11 of 22. Their team ERA is an impressive 2.24. They lead the AL in both rotation ERA at 2.65 and...
In the 2014 season, Chris Tillman went 13-6 with a 3.34 ERA. How many times this winter did we discuss that he needed to return to his 2014 form for the Orioles?
Well, we have seen him make five starts so far and he is 2-1 with a 3.24 ERA. He gave the Orioles a huge effort last night with 6 2/3 scoreless on two singles against Tampa Bay.
The Orioles offense got one big swing from outfielder Joey Rickard, but almost nothing else. Tillman made that stand up. Tillman tied his career high with nine...
Chris Tillman was dominant. Joey Rickard was clutch. That duo led the Orioles to a much-needed 3-1 win over the Tampa Bay Rays tonight. The Orioles had lost the first two games of the series.
The Orioles ended a three-game slide and improve to 12-8. They completed a 2-4 road trip and will return to Camden Yards tomorrow night still in first place. The Birds are now 7-4 against American League East foes.
Steve Pearce came up with a pinch-hit RBI single with two outs in the ninth off Zach...
We all know the Orioles offense is very reliant on the home run ball. That is clearly true through the small sample of the 19 games the team has played so far this year.
The simple stat of runs scored in relation to homers hit points that out. When the Orioles don't homer, they score fewer runs than when they hit one homer. When they hit two or more homers, they score even more. They also win more.
Here are the numbers:
* When the Orioles don't hit a home run, they have averaged just 2.0 runs...
The Kansas City Royals and Tampa Bay Rays have good pitching, and the Orioles can attest to that. In losing four of five on this road trip to those two teams, the O's scored four runs total in those losses.
The offense that looked so special to start the season has slowed and it has really been for more than just a few games. Over the last nine games, the Orioles have scored four runs or less eight times and they've done that 10 times in the last 12 games.
It will not get any easier for the...
The Orioles are still looking to get their suddenly cold bats going. That, along with a poorly located 0-2 pitch, led to their latest loss tonight. After winning their first three series against American League East opponents, the Orioles will not win this series.
Since their 7-0 start, the Orioles are 4-8 after falling tonight 3-1 to Tampa Bay. The Orioles are 1-4 on this six-game road trip. In the four losses on the trip the Orioles have scored four total runs. In the eight losses since the...
We didn't expect to say this a lot this season, but the Orioles need to get their offense going tonight when they play the Tampa Bay Rays in St. Petersburg.
The Orioles are 1-3 on this road trip. They scored eight runs in the win on Saturday at Kansas City. But in the three losses, they have been held to three runs and 14 hits. They could not get much going against Chris Young, Yordano Ventura and Chris Archer.
The Orioles are 4-7 since their best start in team history at 7-0. They have scored...
When the Orioles drafted Mike Wright in the third round out of East Carolina in 2011, they looked at a few numbers they liked about the right-hander. He was 6-foot-6 and he could throw 96 mph.
You can't teach that. The Orioles could envision Wright advancing to the majors and become a big, strong and durable innings eater who had mid-90s heat.
In 2013, Wright was the Orioles' minor league Pitcher of the Year. In 2015, he made the majors for the first time, throwing a stunning 14 scoreless...
It looks like Chris Archer's struggles this season and against the Orioles are over. Archer pitched 6 2/3 scoreless innings tonight as the Rays beat the Orioles 2-0 at Tropicana Field. Behind the right-hander's strong outing, Tampa Bay takes the opener of this three-game series.
The Orioles fall to 1-3 on this road trip, 6-3 against the American League East and to 11-7 on the season.
Archer began tonight with an 0-4 record and 7.32 ERA over four starts. The Orioles hit four homers and scored...
After three rehab starts for three different Orioles minor league affiliates, right-hander Kevin Gausman finally will pitch in a major league game tonight. He makes his Orioles season debut as the Birds face the Rays in the opener of a three-game series at Tropicana Field.
Gausman went two innings and threw 47 pitches in his first rehab start. Then he threw 77 pitches over 3 1/3 innings and then 91 pitches in 5 2/3. That last start was with Triple-A Norfolk last Wednesday. Gausman allowed four...
Double-A Bowie outfielder Mike Yastrzemski today was named the Eastern League Player of the Week for the period ending Sunday. Yastrzemski hit .438 (14-for-32) with three doubles, three home runs, nine RBIs and seven runs scored during the week.
This all followed a slow start for the grandson of Hall of Famer Carl Yastrzemski, who was hitting .143 after eight games. But since then, the younger Yaz has hit safely in all seven games with six multi-hit games. His current hitting streak is eight...
After he struggled in spring training and then declined an assignment to the minor leagues, there are probably quite a few people surprised that Hyun Soo Kim has a .500 batting average right now. Sure it is only a handful of at-bats, but in spring training Kim hit just .178 and looked overmatched at times.
The first Korean-born player in Orioles history now also has his first career RBI. Kim went 2-for-4 and drove in a run in the Orioles' win Saturday night at Kansas City. But he said he...
KANSAS CITY - It was a day when a close game got away from the Orioles in the last of the seventh inning. It was a day when their offense was held to one run on four hits - and none for extra bases - in a 6-1 loss to Kansas City.
The Orioles had a chance to pull out a 4-2 run against Toronto and K.C., but it didn't happen. Royals starter Yordano Ventura held them to three hits over seven innings to improve to 2-0 with a 2.35 ERA.
O's starter Mike Wright had a strong start going. He took the...
KANSAS CITY - The Orioles took a 1-0 lead into the last of the fourth inning today at Kauffman Stadium. If they win, they'll take the series and improve to 12-5.
Manny Machado, the league's leading hitter at .397, walked with one out in the first against Yordano Ventura. He reached second on Adam Jones' infield single and scored on Mark Trumbo's two-out single to left.
Trumbo began today second to Machado in the AL in batting average at .381. That was his team-leading 16th RBI and all have...
KANSAS CITY - Orioles manager Buck Showalter confirmed today that right-hander Tyler Wilson is staying in the rotation - at least for now. He will start for the Orioles on Thursday at home against the Chicago White Sox.
Wilson pitched five innings, allowing six hits and three runs, and got the win last night at Kauffman Stadium. He is 1-0 with an ERA of 2.70 in four appearances. Vance Worley will continue to pitch out of the bullpen.
The Orioles will need to make another roster move to activate...
KANSAS CITY - The Orioles have won four of their five series this year. Today, they have a chance to add another series victory if they can beat the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium.
The teams have exchanged wins this weekend. Mike Moustakas homered and drove in three runs on Friday as K.C. beat the Birds 4-2. Last night, the Orioles recorded a season-high 14 hits, Mark Trumbo drove in four runs and their bullpen put up four scoreless innings in an 8-3 win.
On the mound this afternoon,...