Hearing from Showalter and Gausman before tonight's game

The Orioles used the disabled list for the 10th time today, including twice with Ryan Flaherty, who returned to it this afternoon with a strained right groin muscle.

"The tough thing, like I said, is it's unbelievable that a guy who's played as much baseball since Little League has never had a leg issue," said manager Buck Showalter. "It's only for the most part moving to his right, which happened in Toronto when he moved to his right taking off to go to second, and moving to the ball to his right in New York actually is the only time it bothered him. But you've got to be able to do that up here. So we'll see. But it's really strange.

"Everything was great. He did all those to his right and left without any problems. Played three games moving to the right and left, and it just happened up here."

The Orioles received better news after reviewing the MRI on Kevin Gausman's right shoulder.

"Everything came back clean, kind of as we suspected. Obviously, that's a good sign," Gausman said.

"Just going to try to figure out a day to start throwing and then it's kind of on me, how I feel and how I'm progressing. I think I'll probably start throwing maybe later in the week, closer to the weekend.

"I was obviously very positive about it. It felt great. Obviously, I feel fine, so to get that reassurance is always good."

Gausman will stay with the Orioles for now rather than fly down to Sarasota. He's looking forward to starting for Triple-A Norfolk once he's healthy.

"Yeah, obviously I've been a starter for most of my career," he said. "That's what I'm comfortable doing, so really just to kind of get into a routine, that's what I'm excited about."

Showalter said the tendinitis is Gausman's shoulder is "almost gone."

"It responded well from the medication and I look for him to hopefully be pitching in Norfolk's rotation in the near future," Showalter said.

"We were contemplating that anyway because I don't want Kevin to end up 50-60 innings on the year. He figures into the potential of being in the rotation down the road next year. When he went out and did that last year, he came back actually better in our bullpen. I want to keep the ball in his hand, so I think it's going to be good."

So what's next for Gausman?

"Throw some flat grounds and make sure this inflammation doesn't come back. And then a couple side sessions, maybe to some live hitters in a sim thing and then go out. We want to make sure it's not going to come back before we turn him loose in Norfolk," Showalter said.

"He's going to talk to Dr. (Michael) Jacobs about whether or not he wants to get it injected, cortisone, but I don't know if they're going to do that."

Showalter also gave reporters a peek into his plans with catcher Matt Wieters, who's eligible to come off the 60-day disabled list on June 4.

"He should join us then if everything goes well, if we don't have any setbacks," Showalter said. "It may be an every other day scenario. I was only going to cach him four out of seven anyway, but we may do an every other day thing with him. See how it goes."

Today's extended spring training game moved so quickly, Wieters stayed behind the plate for nine innings instead of eight.

"Today was a good step for him," Showalter said. "It may not be the fourth. It may be after that. We know legally it can't be before the fourth.

"Having Matt every other day is better than not having him at all, and I think that will progress from there."