Rich Dubroff
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September 21, 2020 at 7:00 am
Covering Orioles games in 2020 wasn’t a joy or a chore
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...
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September 20, 2020 at 4:56 pm
Means strikes out 12 in Orioles’ 2-1 win; Home season ends; Orioles complete Castro deal
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...
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Orioles score just one run for seventh time in 10 games, guarantee losing season; Iglesias injured
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,...
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September 19, 2020 at 4:18 pm
Boog Powell, Don Buford remember 1970 Orioles; Velazquez down, Phillips up; Davis done for 2020
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...
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Orioles again held to one run in loss to Rays; Cobb pitches well; Bleier, Givens trades completed
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...
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September 18, 2020 at 4:38 pm
Brocail thinks Orioles can contend next year; Hyde compares Orioles and Rays
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,...
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Rocky debut for Ellicott City’s Zimmermann, ugly fifth for Orioles help Rays complete sweep
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...
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September 17, 2020 at 7:41 pm
Valdez gives up two runs in seventh as Orioles lose Game 1 to Rays, 3-1; Another strong start for Kremer
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...
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Orioles bring up Zimmermann to start Game 2 of doubleheader against Rays; Wojciechowski designated for assignment
Left-handed pitcher Bruce Zimmermann, a Baltimore native, has been recalled from the Bowie alternate site to start Game 2 of Thursday’s doubleheader with the Tampa Bay Rays. Zimmermann, who attended Loyola-Blakefield High and began his college career at Towson, was obtained by the Orioles on July 31, 2018 in the trade that...
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Akin strikes out six straight in Orioles’ 5-1 win over Braves; Rays come in for five-game series
BALTIMORE—Keegan Akin was overpowering in his five innings, earning his first major league win and leading the Orioles to a series victory over a quality offensive club. Akin was so strong that he struck out nine batters, including six in a row at one point, as the Orioles defeated the Atlanta Braves,...
