The Orioles ended the first two weeks of the season with a 5-8 record. Few conclusions can be drawn from less than 10 percent of the 162-game season. A year ago, the Orioles ran off to a 12-8 start. That was vastly different. It was one-third through a 60-game season, and there...
BALTIMORE—The first Orioles homestand of the season is over. It’s one they’d like to forget. They lost six of seven games, including both ends of a doubleheader to the Seattle Mariners on Thursday. They scored just three runs in the two games, wasting solid starting pitching from Matt Harvey in Game 1...
BALTIMORE—The Orioles had a fast start in the first inning of the first game of Thursday’s doubleheader against the Mariners, but their offense sputtered after that. Trey Mancini hit a two-run home run in the first, and the Orioles did nothing offensively after that. Reliever Tanner Scott gave up two runs in...
BALTIMORE—It’s still early enough in the season that Ryan Mountcastle saw his batting average rise significantly after going 3-for-6 in Tuesday’s doubleheader. Entering the first game of the Orioles’ doubleheader against Seattle, Mountcastle was batting .184. He’s now he’s at .227. Mountcastle, who had hit fourth in eight of the first nine...
BALTIMORE—The Orioles’ game against the Seattle Mariners was postponed on Wednesday. It’s the second rainout for the teams in three days. Monday’s game was rained out and made up as part of a doubleheader on Tuesday. The Orioles lost Game 1, 4-3, in eight innings (seven innings are played in doubleheaders) after...
The Orioles’ scheduled game against the Seattle Mariners was postponed by rain on Monday night. The Orioles and Mariners will play a doubleheader on Tuesday, beginning at 4:05 p.m. John Means, who was supposed to start on Tuesday will pitch Game 1. Dean Kremer, the scheduled starter on Monday night, will pitch...
BALTIMORE—Manager Brandon Hyde moved Ryan Mountcastle to sixth in the batting order for Monday night’s game against the Seattle Mariners. In his first nine games, Mountcastle is batting .184 with a home run and five RBIs. He leads the major leagues in strikeouts with 17. Mountcastle has hit fourth in eight games,...
BALTIMORE—Dean Kremer will be the final Orioles pitcher to get his second start on Monday night against the Seattle Mariners. Of the first nine games, Kremer has the shortest start, a three-plus inning effort against the New York Yankees on April 6th, but it was not without its moments. Kremer gave up...
BALTIMORE—When the Orioles began their season with a three-game sweep of the Boston Red Sox last weekend, hopes were heightened that perhaps this Orioles team was better than many had forecast. Since then, the Orioles have lost five of six, including three straight this weekend to the Boston Red Sox. They’ve slipped...
BALTIMORE—Bruce Zimmermann finally got to pitch in front of his family and friends at the ballpark where he watched games growing up. He pitched well enough to record a quality start but didn’t stay in the game long enough to win. Dillon Tate’s 10th-inning wild pitch, which tipped off the top of...