Tonight's game and Showalter on Wieters' catching schedule

The Orioles are in Chicago tonight to begin a two-city, six-game road trip. Their lineup should lean heavily to the right against White Sox left-hander John Danks.

Right-handers are hitting .321 against Danks this season and lefties are batting .230.

The Orioles took five of six games from the White Sox last season and have won or tied the series every year since 2009. They swept a three-game set in Chicago last summer for the first time since May 1989.

The Orioles launched 12 home runs in six games against the White Sox and batted .295/.338/.509 with 23 extra-base hits.

Danks is 3-8 with a 5.38 ERA and 1.481 WHIP in 14 starts this season. He shouldn't expect much offensive support, considering that the White Sox rank last in the majors in runs (266) and slugging percentage (.357). They are 24th in average (.241), 25th in on-base percentage (.296) and 27th in home runs (57).

The White Sox's 4.13 team ERA ranks 23rd, which further explains why they're in last place in the American League Central.

Danks is 5-5 with a 4.28 ERA in 12 career starts against the Orioles. Adam Jones is 1-for-30 with seven strikeouts and Chris Davis is 2-for-14.

J.J. Hardy is 8-for-23 with four doubles and a home run and Nolan Reimold is 7-for-16 with a double, triple and home run.

Do you start Jones or put Reimold in center field? My guess is Jones plays center and Reimold starts in left or right.

Jones began last night batting .367 (18-for-49) against left-handers this season, the highest average on the club. he hit .344 against them last year, but only .251 in 2013, (compared to his .300 average against right-handers.

Matt Wieters is 6-for-24 with two doubles and two home runs against Danks, but Caleb Joseph will be behind the plate. Wieters remains on the same schedule, catching every other day, and manager Buck Showalter doesn't know when it's going to change.

He doesn't really care. It's not keeping him awake at night. That's probably the caffeine.

"It's not if, I think it's when, and that's going to be totally up to Matt and John Russell and the trainers," Showalter said. "It's not something I walk up to him every day and say, 'Hey, is today the day? Is today the day?' I'm not going to do that to him. I'm not going to jeopardize him being here every other day by pushing the envelope on it. But I know he's playing some catch now between outings, so to speak.

"When he first got here, he'd catch and take the next day off, even though he's available. We wouldn't have brought him here if we felt like we couldn't use him in a game the day after, but he is now doing some things on the day he's not catching that he wasn't doing when he first got here, so I think it will happen at some point. When it is, I don't know, and we're fortunate to have Caleb and some other catchers down below that we feel good about the depth.

"We'll take it the way it is, and if it's this way the rest of the year, so be it. I think at some point he'll feel comfortable doing it. I try to stay out of that. I don't want him to think that I'm putting that pressure on him, and I'm not. We'll take him any way we can get him."

Wieters' right shoulder is fine, for those of you concerned that he grimaced while striking out in the sixth inning of Tuesday's game against the Rangers. It just grabbed a little as he swung through a high fastball. He told me that it's happened about 100 times before on that pitch, dating back to his college days, and will happen another 100 times in the future. No big deal.

Ubaldo Jimenez is facing the White Sox for the second time this season. He allowed two unearned runs and three hits seven innings in an 8-2 win on April 29. He was removed after 89 pitches.

Jimenez is 3-3 with a 4.48 ERA in 11 career starts against the White Sox and 2-2 with a 5.79 ERA in six starts at U.S. Cellular Field. Adam LaRoche is 7-for-22 with three doubles and a home run, Conor Gillaspie is 5-for-14 with a double and Avisail Garcia is 5-for-10 with a double.

Note: The Orioles weren't inactive yesterday during the first day of international signings. Names should begin to surface later this afternoon.

I've heard that the roll call should include 10 players.