Orioles and Yankees lineups
Orioles and Yankees lineups
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Maikel Franco is starting at first base tonight and Rio Ruiz is at third base for the Orioles' 6:35 p.m. game against the Yankees in Tampa. Cedric Mullins is in center field, Ryan Mountcastle is in left and Austin Hays is in right. Trey Mancini is the designated hitter and Chance Sisco is catching. Anthony Santander is out of the lineup again. Jorge López is making his sixth appearance and third start. He's allowed one run and three hits with 11 strikeouts in nine innings out of the...
Hardy, Devereaux and Angel chosen to Orioles Hall of Fame
Hardy, Devereaux and Angel chosen to Orioles Hall of Fame
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Former Orioles shortstop JJ Hardy and outfielder Mike Devereaux have been elected to the club's Hall of Fame. Long-time radio broadcaster Joe Angel will be inducted as this year's Herb Armstrong Award winner. The trio will be honored along with the 2020 "Wild Bill Hagy Award" winner, Mo Gaba, during an on-field ceremony prior to the Aug. 7 game against the Rays at Camden Yards. Hardy spent the last seven seasons of his 13-year career with the Orioles from 2011-17 and won three straight Gold...
J.J. Hardy and Mike Devereaux elected to Orioles Hall of Fame
J.J. Hardy and Mike Devereaux elected to Orioles Hall of Fame
Doug Miller
Orioles
The Orioles today announced that former shortstop J.J. Hardy and former outfielder Mike Devereaux have been elected to the Orioles Hall of Fame. Additionally, long-time Orioles radio broadcaster Joe Angel will be inducted as this year's Herb Armstrong Award winner. That trio, along with the previously announced Wild Bill Hagy Award winner, Mossila "Mo" Gaba, will be honored during an on-field ceremony prior to the Orioles game on Saturday, August 7, against the Tampa Bay Rays. Hardy played...
Orioles regular season tickets for April and May games on sale Wednesday, March 31
Orioles regular season tickets for April and May games on sale Wednesday, March 31
Doug Miller
Orioles
The Orioles today announced that individual tickets for April and May games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards will go on sale Wednesday, March 31, at 2:00 p.m. ET. Due to capacity restrictions, limited seating is available for the purchase of single-game tickets for any of the team's first 24 home games of the season, with the exception of Opening Day, which will be reserved for Birdland Members. Fans interested in receiving greater access to enjoy Orioles baseball this season may consider an...
Whether opening or closing, Avilán wants chance to help Nats
Whether opening or closing, Avilán wants chance to help Nats
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Luis Avilán has made 454 big league appearances since 2012, plus another 48 in the minors. All have come in relief. He hasn't started a game since he was a 22-year-old Braves prospect at Double-A, nearly a decade ago. So when the veteran left-hander took the mound for the bottom of the first Thursday night at Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium in Jupiter, Fla., he immediately realized something looked different. "It was just a little weird, just for the fact that, just the first inning, the...
Soto's night ends in first inning due to calf cramp
Soto's night ends in first inning due to calf cramp
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
When Juan Soto battled his way through an 11-pitch at-bat with young Marlins flamethrower Sixto Sánchez in the top of the first tonight in Jupiter, Fla., and ultimately trotted to first base having drawn a well-earned walk, it felt like the most encouraging thing the slumping Nationals slugger had done in days. But when the inning ended a few minutes later and his teammates took their positions for the bottom of the first, Soto did not join them. He would later be seen walking back to the...
Hays has huge night while rotation remains unresolved in 10-9 win
Hays has huge night while rotation remains unresolved in 10-9 win
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
As the loudest sounds in Orioles camp today came from the maneuvering of veteran pitchers, like furniture dragged across wood floors, young left-hander Keegan Akin had to tune it out and do his job. A smart approach, but hard to execute. Akin made the start tonight and threw 32 pitches in a two-run top of the first inning against the Pirates in Sarasota. He was charged with six runs and eight hits in only 2 1/3, walking two batters and striking out three, and headed to the dugout with head...
Leftovers for breakfast
Leftovers for breakfast
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The rotation guessing game can't be played without the constant moving of pieces. The Orioles appear to be lining up Dean Kremer behind opening day starter John Means. They appear to want Matt Harvey to pitch the third game, though it hasn't been stated. He could go fourth. My logic came from the idea that the team would want to separate rookies Kremer and Keegan Akin, but the latter has to earn the job and he struggled last night. Would the Orioles stick Bruce Zimmermann in the fifth spot...
Hays has a big night, but Akin struggles (O's win, 10-9)
Hays has a big night, but Akin struggles (O's win, 10-9)
Steve Melewski
Orioles
With the games dwindling and the rotation competition still apparently very much open, it was not a good time for a rough outing on the mound. But 25-year-old Orioles lefty pitching prospect Keegan Akin had one tonight. He could not make it through the third inning as the Orioles hosted the Pittsburgh Pirates at Ed Smith Stadium. Making his first appearance in a spring game since March 15 - he certainly had pitched on the back fields on other days - Akin allowed six runs and eight hits over 2...
Will nine scoreless innings lead local kid to opening day roster?
Will nine scoreless innings lead local kid to opening day roster?
Steve Melewski
Orioles
We don't know what the stats say about a couple of Bruce Zimmermann outings in B games and/or on the back fields, but we do know his stats in three spring training games have been close to perfect. Hard to top a zero ERA over nine innings. The Baltimore native, 2013 Loyola High School grad and former player at Towson University got his feet wet with two games in the majors late last year. He gave up five runs in three innings in a start against Tampa Bay and allowed one run over four innings...