Rodriguez retires 18 of 20 batters and Orioles post ninth shutout in 9-0 win (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
If the remaining weeks also are designed to aid the Orioles in setting up a playoff rotation, Grayson Rodriguez is manipulating them in the best possible way. Rodriguez is providing a ringing endorsement for minor league resets, too, dominating the White Sox tonight by retiring 18 of 20 batters in six scoreless innings. Ryan O’Hearn came through ag
O's game blog: The homestand continues against the Chicago White Sox
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles have won the first two series they’ve played on this nine-game homestand that continues tonight at Oriole Park as the O’s host the Chicago White Sox for the first of a three-game series. The Orioles (81-49) have 32 games remaining in the 2023 regular season and begin play tonight leading the Tampa Bay Rays by two games atop the American
Millas joins active roster, giving Nats three catchers
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
TORONTO – Drew Millas was on the trainer’s table in Rochester, getting ready for Thursday’s game, when Nationals director of player development De Jon Watson called with a quick question: “Do you have your passport with you?” Millas affirmed he did, then Watson hung up, leaving the Triple-A catcher wondering what that was all about. He would get th
Orioles vs. White Sox in series opener (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles begin their series against the White Sox tonight needing one more victory to guarantee back-to-back winning seasons for the first time since 2012-14. Austin Hays is out of tonight’s lineup. Ryan McKenna is in left field. Ryan O’Hearn is playing right. He hit his 11th home run yesterday after totaling 12 from 2020-22. Gunnar Henderson’s
Game 132 lineups: Nats at Blue Jays
Mark Zuckerman
Masn
TORONTO – Hello from Rogers Centre, up here north of the border. The Nationals are making their first trip to Canada since 2018, having technically played road games against the Blue Jays in both 2020 and 2021 even though both series were played at alternate sites due to COVID travel restrictions (2020 at Nationals Park, 2021 in Dunedin, Fla.). Thi
Nationals select contract of catcher Millas, option Rutherford; Edwards to 60-day IL
MASN Staff
Nationals
The Washington Nationals selected the contract of catcher Drew Millas from Triple-A Rochester and transferred right-handed pitcher Carl Edwards Jr. to the 60-day Injured List on Monday. Following the game on Sunday, outfielder Blake Rutherford was optioned to Triple-A Rochester. Nationals President of Baseball Operations and General Manager Mike Ri
Back where he caught it, Adams recalls Strasburg's last start
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
MIAMI – The Nationals just so happened to be heading back to Miami after the news broke. They were wrapping up their series against the Yankees in New York and about to board a flight to South Beach when it was reported that Stephen Strasburg was planning to retire. Then ironically enough, the baseball gods had them at loanDepot Park the next, the
Hall got the ball Saturday, proving his velocity has come all the way back
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Orioles' lefty DL Hall has not thrown too many pitches as a big leaguer. But two he threw against the Colorado Rockies Saturday night, in a scoreless inning, must have had some meaning for him. He threw one pitch 98.8 mph and another at 98.9. In 17 2/3 career innings, those were his two fastest big league pitches. It showed that Hall, 24, has his v
Santander and Henderson engaging in own home run race
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The line drive down the left field line Saturday night, producing another Orioles run in the eighth inning, gave Anthony Santander 30 doubles. Six more than his career highs in the two previous seasons. A total that he probably hasn’t tracked. What he does know, however, is a home run total that stands at 24 going into tonight’s series opener again
No sweep: Colorado scores in the ninth to beat the Orioles
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles have not been swept in their past 81 series dating to last year. But today their bid to record their ninth sweep of 2023 came up short. The Colorado Rockies pushed an unearned run across the plate in the top of the ninth to beat the Orioles 4-3 in front of 30,773 at Oriole Park. Baltimore's four-game win streak came to an end, and the O