WASHINGTON—After waiting more than two hours, the Orioles and Washington Nationals will have to wait until Friday to complete Sunday’s game. Because of a malfunctioning tarp, the grounds crew wasn’t able to cover the field after a pop-up shower, and it was determined that the field was unplayable. The Orioles were trying...
WASHINGTON—Through seven innings, Washington Nationals pitchers Austin Voth, Javy Guerra and Tanner Rainey had shut down the Orioles on just two hits. Trailing by three runs, their dormant offense woke up against Sean Doolittle. Pat Valaika and Pedro Severino, half of the Orioles’ trimmed-down, four-man bench, hit consecutive pinch-hit home runs to...
The Orioles have recalled left-handed pitcher Keegan Akin from their alternate site in Bowie. He’ll be available in long relief on Saturday night and Sunday. Asher Wojciechowski will start Sunday’s game against the Washington Nationals on three days’ rest. Wojciechowski threw five innings in the second game of Wednesday’s doubleheader against Miami....
WASHINGTON—After four losses against a team reeling from the coronavirus, the Orioles broke out against the defending World Series champions. The Orioles set season highs in runs and hits (19) in an 11-0 blowout of the Washington Nationals Friday night at Nationals Park. In losing four straight to the Miami Marlins, who...
Alan Means, the father of Orioles pitcher John Means, died of pancreatic cancer on Tuesday night. He was 57. Means’ wife, Caroline, tweeted the obituary. Means, who pitched against Miami on Tuesday night, went on the bereavement list on Wednesday. Manager Brandon Hyde said that he doesn’t know when Means will rejoin...
BALTIMORE—Whether they were the home team or the road team in this unusual four-game series, the Orioles couldn’t find a way to beat the Miami Marlins. The Marlins came to Baltimore to make up the four games postponed last week when at least 18 of their players tested positive for Covid-19 and...
The Orioles have spent five years waiting for outfielder DJ Stewart to blossom. Stewart, the club’s first draft pick in 2015, got a brief opportunity with the Orioles in 2018 and a longer one that was cut short by an ankle injury last year that required surgery. He was still recovering in...
BALTIMORE—After their three-game sweep of the Tampa Bay Rays last weekend, the Orioles were 5-3 and appeared to have an advantage over their next opponent, the remade Miami Marlins. Three games into a four games series, the Orioles have just 10 hits and one run—scored in the sixth inning of Wednesday’s second...
BALTIMORE—The most jarring sound in the first game of the Orioles’ first seven-inning doubleheader came in the middle of the fifth when John Denver’s “Thank God I’m a Country Boy,” came wafting through the ballpark’s sound system. For decades, the Orioles have played Country Boy during the seventh-inning stretch, but in this...
BALTIMORE—After a spate of Covid-19 forced the Miami Marlins to wait eight days to play a game, the Orioles might have thought the patchwork team that was hastily assembled wouldn’t present much of a challenge. However, pitching can be the great equalizer, and the Marlins’ pitchers were sharp and dominant in a...