J.J. Hardy is the last person who wants to draw attention to himself. And he’s not 100 percent sure that he’s played his last game in an Orioles’ uniform at Camden Yards. It’s likely, of course, that the 35-year-old shortstop, who has been a mainstay of the franchise since the 2011 season,...
So, Chris Tillman will get another start at Camden Yards after all. Roughly 80 minutes before Sunday’s home finale, the Orioles announced that scheduled starter Dylan Bundy has been scratched and will be replaced by Tillman. The club later announced that Bundy was scratched with a left hamstring strain. Not sure if...
The Ubaldo Jimenez Experience has ended its four-year run at Camden Yards. There will be no return engagement, at least not in orange and black. What surely was Jimenez’s Baltimore swan song as an Orioles pitcher ended in another ugly duckling performance – which, I suppose, is the way it had to...
This really shouldn’t have been much of a race. This year’s Most Valuable Oriole, as announced Friday by the organization, is second baseman Jonathan Schoop, who is hitting .295 with a .340 on-base percentage, .514 slugging percentage, 33 doubles and 32 homers in 2017. His 105 RBIs heading into Friday are the...
It just seems so simple. We all know it’s not. But what unheralded right-hander Gabriel Ynoa did Thursday night against the Tampa Bay Rays had to be met with a collective face palm from the Orioles’ fan base. That’s what it takes to succeed in the majors. So simple. And yet apparently...
I’m not sure how much of a decision this is anymore. You have to think about halfway through this season that every power-that-is in the Orioles’ organization – and there are plenty of them – reached the consensus that lefty Wade Miley’s 2018 option won’t be picked up. But I heard the...
Orioles closer Zach Britton will receive a stem-cell injection in his balky left knee Thursday afternoon, and will be out at least three-to-five days, though it’s almost certain his 2017 season has ended with nine games remaining. Britton, 29, said an MRI as part of the club’s annual exit physical showed a...
It sure is an interesting lineup for the Orioles on Wednesday night against Chris Sale and the Boston Red Sox – based on who is in it and who is not. And the biggest news to come from manager Buck Showalter’s pregame press conference is who could be shelved for the remainder...
Orioles’ right-hander Dylan Bundy couldn’t get out of the fifth Monday night, allowing six earned runs in 4 1/3 innings in an eventual loss to the Boston Red Sox, 10-8, in 11 innings. Pitching on five days’ rest, Bundy retired nine of the first 10 batters he faced, gave up a run...
It’s fitting that the Orioles, losers of eight of 10 on a road trip that unofficially but unquestionably torpedoed any postseason hopes, would win their final game in Yankee Stadium thanks to the right arm of Ubaldo Jimenez. Kind of sums up this season perfectly. Things never went as the script dictated...