As if the wait leading up to the Class 2A state championship game wasn’t long enough, the baseball gods decided to halt it even further. Around 3:30 p.m., while Fallston was taking infield at Ripken Stadium in Aberdeen, the rain hit – and it hit hard. More than three-and-a-half hours later, the...
On a rainy afternoon in Aberdeen, the St. Michaels Saints of Talbot County defeated the Boonsboro Warriors 12-1 in five innings to win the Class 1A Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association championship. It was the fifth state title for the Saints. “This is a great group of kids,” St. Michaels head...
The Northwest Jaguars are the Class 4A Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association state champions. Their 8-0 win over the Howard Lions on Friday night marks the program’s second title in school history. How It Happened Northwest got on the board in the second inning, when third baseman Nicholas Phelps scored on...
Starting tonight – and ending Saturday night – the top eight public school baseball teams in Maryland will step on Leidos Field at Ripken Stadium to compete for their respective class championships in the Maryland Public Secondary Schools Athletic Association. They represent seven counties. Four have won previous state finals titles while...
Over the last couple of years, you’ve probably noticed that baseball broadcasts and highlights have been sprinkled with factoids from Statcast, MLB’s data-collecting technology system. Statcast, for those who don’t know, employs cameras and radar equipment in every major league ballpark to gather boatloads of data. It can track just about every...
The college baseball season has come to an end for most four-year colleges in Maryland. Six schools made the postseason and, so far, two have won their conference tournaments. Of the 15 schools covered by BaltimoreBaseball.com, four finished with winning records while two failed to reach double-digit victories. Two programs remain in...
Center fielder Adam Jones continued to make Orioles history Monday. Jones’ three-run homer off Twins starter Kyle Gibson was his 125th at Camden Yards, setting a ballpark record previously held by Rafael Palmeiro. It likely won’t be the last milestone for Jones, who continues to climb the Orioles’ franchise leaderboards, toppling some...
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: Ubaldo Jimenez may have pitched himself out of the Orioles’ starting rotation. It’s been a common refrain ever since Jimenez joined the Orioles in 2014 on a four-year, $50 million free-agent contract. With every string of bad outings, every frustrating bout of wildness and ineffectiveness,...
The playoffs are in full force on the high school diamond, and several players have come up big to lead their respective clubs deep into the playoffs. Here are three – plus some really good honorable mentions – that have done more than their share to keep their teams’ title hopes alive....
It seems like I’m always starting these Tap Room entries by waxing poetic about the beauties of baseball. Maybe it’s because I do think it’s the best sport in the universe. There are just so many nuances, so many variables that make baseball difficult to predict, which is why we watch sports...