BALTIMORE—Five days and a dry field later, the Orioles have a six-game winning streak. They also have their second straight three-game road series sweep, even though the final innings of Friday evening’s suspended game against the Washington Nationals was at Camden Yards. Last Sunday, when the Nationals’ grounds crew couldn’t unravel the...
Each day, BaseballReference.com not only updates player and team statistics around baseball, it projects playoff teams, even at this early stage of the 2020 season. On Thursday morning, Oriole fans who scanned the site were in for a surprise when they saw their favorite team projected as one of five American League...
PHILADELPHIA—For the first time in nearly three years, the Orioles have a three-game road sweep. After two taut games, the Orioles spotted the Philadelphia Phillies a 2-0 lead and scored nine unanswered runs on their way to an 11-4 victory on Thursday for their fifth straight win and a three-game series sweep...
PHILADELPHIA—Sixteen games into the season, it’s clear that this Orioles team is better than last year’s. On Wednesday night, they won their fourth straight game and captured their fourth series of the 60-game season. In 2019, they didn’t win their fourth series until midway through a conventional 162-game season. The Orioles ran...
PHILADELPHIA—Orioles manager Brandon Hyde has to use his bullpen differently in 2020. There’s a new rule, and it’s one that was going to be in effect before the pandemic: A pitcher must face at least three batters or end an inning. It minimizes the left-handed specialist like Brian Matusz, who’d come in...
PHILADELPHIA—In this most unusual season, the unlikely keeps happening to the Orioles. There was an abundance of it on Tuesday night in a roller-coaster ride with the Philadelphia Phillies. First, the Orioles came back from a three-run deficit to take a 5-3 lead in the seventh. Then reliever Miguel Castro, who’d been...
PHILADELPHIA—Orioles starter John Means is traveling to Baltimore after attending his father’s funeral, and he’ll have to go through the Covid-19 protocols before he can be activated. Means was taken off the bereavement list and put on the injured list. Thomas Eshelman, who started Saturday night in Washington, will start on Thursday...
The season is a few innings short of one-quarter complete, and the Orioles are playing better than many thought they would. There are lots of questions to get to, and a number of them are about Ryan Mountcastle. Question: What has to happen for Ryan Mountcastle to get an everyday shot at...
In just over two weeks, the Orioles’ 2020 season has been full of challenges. The latest was unexpected, just like the storm that suddenly appeared at Nationals Park on Sunday a little after 2:30 p.m. While it was comical to watch the grounds crew attempt to unravel a tangled tarpaulin, the result...
WASHINGTON—After waiting more than two hours, the Orioles and Washington Nationals will have to wait until Friday to complete Sunday’s game. Because of a malfunctioning tarp, the grounds crew wasn’t able to cover the field after a pop-up shower, and it was determined that the field was unplayable. The Orioles were trying...