O'Day will pitch Friday at Bowie (plus other notes)

NEW YORK - Orioles reliever Darren O'Day will go on a brief injury rehab assignment, pitching Friday night at Double-A Bowie if he continues to feel good after today's simulated game.

The Baysox are hosting Erie at 7:05 p.m.

O'Day threw 15 pitches today, rested and threw 10 more while facing Hyun Soo Kim and Joey Rickard. The Orioles are hoping to activate him from the disabled list on Sunday or Monday during the next homestand.

Left-hander T.J. McFarland, on the DL with a knee injury, still isn't throwing off a mound.

Julio Borbon arrived in the clubhouse around 4:30 p.m. and is available on the bench.

Borbon, 30, batted .289/.353/.373 (90-for-311) with seven doubles, two triples, five home runs and 20 RBIs in 83 games with the Baysox this season. He posted an 11-game hitting streak from July 4-18, hitting .468/.510/.660 (22-for-47) with one double, one triple, two home runs, four RBIs and seven multi-hit games in that span.

Borbon leads the Baysox in runs scored (48) and stolen bases (20) this season. In 288 career major league games, he's batted .272/.318/.347 with 19 doubles, eight triples, eight home runs and 76 RBIs and has gone 47-for-61 (77 percent) in stolen base attempts.

The Orioles wanted to add a plus-defender and plus-runner as Kim's replacement, which made Borbon the favorite over Henry Urrutia, who was designated for assignment.

Kim did some running today, but the O's could no longer wait on his right hamstring to fully heal. The bench is too short, especially with Chris Davis here but looking like a guy who's got a stomach virus.

"We were out here with (Kim) today and it's just inching little by little," said manager Buck Showalter. "Obviously, we've been playing short waiting on him because he's worth waiting on, but we're like a week away now with a backdate and hopefully we can get that resolved in the next week.

"You're running the risk of every time testing having a setback. We just got to the point where it wasn't making the improvements we were hoping it would make. We waited, what, eight or nine days, so it's time. "

Showalter confirmed that Dr. James Andrews will examine Hunter Harvey's right elbow, though he didn't know the date. He added that the Orioles are considering a couple of options with Harvey, who left Saturday's start at short-season Single-A Aberdeen after 1 1/3 innings due to a sore right flexor mass.

No one is using the word "surgery," but it's obviously under consideration.

Catcher Matt Wieters is day-to-day with a sore right foot. He may not have played tonight no matter his status due to Caleb Joseph's numbers versus Yankees right-hander Nathan Eovaldi.

Wieters said the X-ray last night was "clean, so that's good.

"Sore today, but we're getting better as the day goes on, so we're trying to get as much treatment as we can today and see how it feels in the morning," said Wieters, who was hit by an Ivan Nova pitch last night.

"The old day-to-day. The X-ray was negative, which is positive, so that's a good thing. So, now we'll do treatment and see how quickly we can get the swelling out of it."

Wieters stayed in the game, but also told Joseph to be ready and informed Showalter that he might not be able to run the bases if he reached in his final at-bat.

"It was sore throughout," Wieters said. "It was something to where once the game starts and the game got going, it kind of got the adrenaline going and I was able to keep playing. But this morning it definitely felt more sore than last night, but today as I got up and got moving, it's felt better."

The Orioles have no plans to schedule an MRI.