BALTIMORE—The Orioles placed shortstop José Iglesias on the 10-day injured list because of a strained left quadriceps muscle on Tuesday. The move is retroactive to Sunday. Iglesias has been dealing with this injury since the first series of the season, and the Orioles have been reluctant to make the move because he’s...
BALTIMORE—The Orioles finally got a lengthy start. Unfortunately for Alex Cobb, his stat line outweighed his pitching performance. Cobb was undone by three infield singles in the third, and the Orioles did virtually nothing to support him offensively in a 7-2 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Monday night at Camden...
BALTIMORE—The Orioles are hoping for a long start from Alex Cobb on Monday night against the Toronto Blue Jays. They’ve had only one extended start, when Tommy Milone pitched six scoreless innings against Washington on August 7th. Manager Brandon Hyde said he’s confident the Orioles will start seeing longer starts. “I’m not...
BALTIMORE—It was a difficult day for John Means. Returning to the mound 12 days after the death of his father, Means was hoping to pitch two innings. Instead, Means threw 34 pitches and faced only seven batters in the first inning. He retired just two of them and allowed three runs in...
BALTIMORE—Andrew Velázquez is one of the most anonymous of the surprising Orioles. Velázquez, a 5-foot-8 26-year-old utilityman from the Bronx, is playing for his fourth major league organization and has finally gotten some playing time. First, he started at shortstop when José Iglesias was slowed by a quadriceps injury. Lately, he’s been...
BALTIMORE—The Orioles placed centerfielder Austin Hays on the 10-day injured list with a non-displaced rib fracture on Saturday. Hays was hit by a pitch on August 6th against Miami, got X-rays, which were negative, but the condition got worse, manager Brandon Hyde said. Hays made two difficult catches in the Philadelphia series,...
BALTIMORE—Earlier on Friday night, the Orioles had completed their suspended game from five days before with a victory over the Washington Nationals and had their longest winning streak in nearly three years — six in a row. They’d also swept consecutive road series for the first time in 15 years and were...
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...