O, Would you look at that...
Not long before Nolan Reimold hit his seventh homer with the Birds Tuesday night, we noticed the sky above Oriole Park's stadium walls was a brilliant orange.
"A good sign?" one of our multimedia producers asked. "Must mean the O's are going to win."
As our jokes about the "good omen" faded into the sounds of the crowd five stories below our windows, BAM, Reimold hits another HR.
Despite Mora's would-have-been-two-run-shot that was taken away by a fan interference call, it's good...
Each Thursday, MASN airs a new "Covering the Bases" segment with a different Oriole during that night's game. Throughout the game, fans get to peek inside the childhoods, early baseball days, and adolescent years of their favorite Birds courtesy of baby photos, stories from coaches and anecdotes from family members and friends.
Tonight, MASN is Covering the Bases with still new Oriole catcher Matt Wieters.
Before MASN really breaks it all down for you tonight during the O's broadcast,...
Bronx Bombers - There were seven homers hit in the game - five by New York. The Yankees five homers tied their season high. They last did it August 23rd at Boston. This is their fourth, five-homer game of the year.
New York, which has hit at least one homer in 105 of their 132 games, leads the Majors with 207 homers. They are on pace for a franchise-record 250.
The back-to-back homers by Nick Swisher and Eric Hinske in the 7th gave NY a 9-6 lead. It's the 14th time on the year NY has...
Game Preview
Yankees (84-48) at Orioles (54-79)
After back-to-back losses at Camden Yards, the Orioles need a win tonight at 7:05 p.m. vs. New York to avoid a three-game sweep by the Yankees.
Jason Berken (4-11, 6.33) pitches for the Orioles vs. CC Sabathia (15-7, 3.56).
New York has two three-game sweeps over the O's already this year, both at Yankee Stadium.
Game Preview
Yankees (84-48) at Orioles (54-79)
After back-to-back losses at Camden Yards, the Orioles need a win tonight at 7:05...
Friday, June 12: Orioles Floppy Hat Day
The First 25,000 fans (21 and older, as this promo is sponsored by Miller Lite) will receive an Orioles Floppy Hat giveaway. From the picture on the website, it also appears as though the hat is reversible, in case you want to wear your floppy hat often enough that you'd want to switch things up.
Was anyone finding that a problem before?
Friday is also Student Night, which features dirt...
He wants to play again this year, but O's center fielder Adam Jones is trying to come to grips with the concept that he may not.
Jones suffered a badly sprained left ankle last night vs. the Yankees. It will keep him out at least two to three weeks and his season may well be over with so little time left.
"It's a tough injury, but I see myself playing again, it's just a matter of when. But this sucks, it just sucks. It's something you can't control.
"It's frustrating, I haven't...
Bobblehead nights at Oriole Park usually tend to do two things:
1. Get lots of fans to come out to the Yard to support the Birds
2. Cause more than half of those fans to utter the phrase: "How come bobbleheads never really look like the person they're supposed to be?"
It's true, few bobbleheads bear an exact likeness to their namesake, and we do wonder why that bobbling head makes it that much harder to fashion a statue that accurately portrays the person whose name is painted on the...
RHP Jason Berken (4-11, 6.33) tonight will make his 19th start of the year, his 11th at home and the 2nd of his career vs. the New York Yankees.
Since starting the year 1-9, 6.93, Berken is 3-2, 4.94 over his last five starts.
He is 2-0, 3.37 over his last two starts.
Right-handed hitters bat .307 vs. Berken while lefties hit .320 off him.
The Orioles are 5-13 when Berken starts, winning the last two. He is 2-6, 5.29 in 10 Camden Yards starts.
Berken has allowed 3ER or less in 10 of his...
It's a clean sweep tonight for the Frederick Keys.
Brandon Waring has been named this year's Carolina League Most Valuable Player and lefty Zach Britton has been named Pitcher of the Year in the League.
The 23-year-old Waring, who was just moved up to Double-A Bowie on Tuesday, batted .273-26-90 in 128 games for the Keys this year. His 26 homers is tied for second most in Keys history.
Waring is second in the Carolina League in homers and is first in the league currently in doubles,...
If you just can't get enough of the O's at spring training, FanFest, 63 games at The Yard, 162 total regular season games, player appearances, Q&A's and video here on MASNsports.com...how about the O's minor leagues?
Here's a heads up that MASNsports.com's Orioles beat writer Steve Melewski will be bringing you some exciting minor league coverage from around the farm system over the next week or so in Birdland.
Steve will make sure you don't miss a pitch, starting with Aberdeen's...
A close game turned into a last-inning blowout tonight as the Yankees scored seven runs off Jim Johnson and Dennis Sarfate in the 9th and beat the Orioles 10-2 Wednesday.
The Yankees sweep the three-game series and have won ten in a row vs. the Orioles for the first time since 1955.
Winning pitcher CC Sabathia gave up one run and seven hits over seven innings with nine strikeouts. He improved to 16-7, 3.48.
In three starts vs. the Orioles since allowing six runs to the Birds on opening day,...