The Orioles placed right-handed pitcher Dillon Tate on the 10-day injured list, retroactive to Sunday, because of a sprained right finger and reinstated right-hander Shawn Armstrong, who had been on the injured list since August 26th because of a sore back. With José Iglesias’ status questionable because of a bruised left wrist,...
On Monday, the Orioles dropped two players from their 40-man roster. One, Carson Fulmer, had been with the Orioles since September 5th when he was selected on waivers from the Pittsburgh Pirates, who reclaimed the 26-year-old right-hander. Fulmer had pitched 3 2/3 scoreless innings for the Orioles. The second was Cody Carroll,...
My most unusual season of covering baseball is over. For the final six Oriole games, I’ll join you in watching them on television. I saw 45 games, more than I anticipated because three games scheduled to be played in Miami and Tampa Bay were relocated to Baltimore after postponements. Although the season...
BALTIMORE—Before Sunday, John Means had never struck out more than seven batters in a game. He did it by the fourth inning against the Tampa Bay Rays. Means, whose season had started with arm fatigue and the death of his father, has been outstanding in his last three starts. On Sunday, he...
BALTIMORE— For the seventh time in 10 games, the Orioles were held to just one run. Their 3-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday night guarantees a losing season. They’re 22-31, and have lost the first four of a five-game series to the Rays. In the bottom of the first,...
It was the most successful time in Orioles history. Three seasons, three pennants, 318 regular-season wins, three World Series appearances but only one world championship. That came in 1970, a year after they were stunned by the Miracle Mets in the ’69 Series and a year before they would run into Roberto...
BALTIMORE—In six of their last nine games, the Orioles have been held to a single run. Not coincidentally, the Orioles lost each of them. On Friday night, Tyler Glasnow overpowered the Orioles for five innings, and the Rays’ bullpen shut them down for the rest of the game in a 2-1 loss...
BALTIMORE—In less than three weeks, the Orioles’ starting staff has been remade. Gone are Wade LeBlanc, Tommy Milone and Asher Wojciechowski. In their place are Keegan Akin, Dean Kremer, Jorge López and Bruce Zimmermann. The Orioles have been energized by the arrivals of Akin, Kremer and Zimmermann from their farm system and,...
BALTIMORE—It was a night Ellicott City’s Bruce Zimmermann will remember, even if he wishes the outcome had turned out differently. Zimmermann had his contract purchased from the Bowie alternate site, and the rookie left-hander had a rough debut in the second game of a doubleheader against the Tampa Bay Rays, allowing five...
BALTIMORE—César Valdez had dazzled opponents in his first six appearances after a three-year absence from the major leagues. Valdez had thrown 11 1/3 innings without allowing an earned run. The magic ended in the top of the seventh in the first game of a doubleheader against the Tampa Bay Rays Thursday evening...