On O's farm, Aberdeen in playoffs tonight & Bowie still chasing the postseason

The playoffs begin in several leagues around Minor League Baseball tonight. For the Orioles high Single-A affiliate, the Aberdeen IronBirds, they travel to Brooklyn for Game 1 of a best-of-three league semi-final series in the South Atlantic League. Aberdeen (78-54) advanced by virtue of winning its division in the first half, going 43-23. Brooklyn
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Wood relishes representing his hometown on Nats farm

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. – James Wood grew up about an hour away from Nationals Park in Olney, Md. He attended Nationals games while starting his high school career as a two-sport athlete at St. John’s College High School in D.C. before transferring to IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., to focus on baseball. When the Padres drafted him in the second round

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Orioles must bring bats to D.C. or risk another bad outcome

The Orioles are coming out of yesterday’s break in the schedule and hoping that their offense, which got a head start on it, shows up tonight in D.C. They were shut out Sunday on three hits, the only slice of good news being how Austin Hays accounted for two of them. Six of the last eight games ended in defeat, and the last two series have been los
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The search for runs and wins is on as the wild card math gets more challenging

For a while the Orioles pitching was so good they could and did win games without scoring very much. They beat Houston 2-0 and 3-1 on the last road trip and added wins in Cleveland by scores of 4-0 and 3-0. Hard to lose when you don’t allow a run as the Boston Red Sox learned Sunday. The Boston pitching made a first-inning run stand up as the Oriol
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Monday morning Nats Q&A

That was a long day at the end of a long road trip as the end of a long season approaches. The Nationals sat through a 3-hour, 36-minute rain delay Sunday afternoon before finally losing 7-5 to the Phillies to be swept at Citizens Bank Park. What was shaping up to be a nice 10-day road trip against nothing but National League contenders wound up en
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Three early reflections on 2022
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles are off today and again on Thursday, and they don’t return home until next Monday. They’re 5 ½ games behind for the last wild card after losing back-to-back series. We live in the present, think ahead to what’s coming and occasionally glance back at the past. I’m doing all of it simultaneously, which can be dizzying. There will be two d
Nats swept by Phillies following long rain delay (updated)
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
PHILADELPHIA – On the final day of a 10-game road trip, at the end of a ballgame that started more than seven hours earlier, the Nationals were left with an exhausted bullpen and a weekend sweep at the hands of a division rival that has owned them all year long. Forced to take over in the third inning for starter Aníbal Sánchez thanks to a three-ho
O's offense comes up empty in series finale loss to Boston (updated)
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Today the Orioles struggling offense met struggling lefty Rich Hill. The veteran southpaw got the better of it, throwing five scoreless innings to frustrate O’s hitters as Boston won the series finale. The Red Sox got just one run and that was in the first inning, but their pitching made it stand in a 1-0 win at Oriole Park. Hill and four relievers
O's game blog: O's host Boston in series finale (game now underway)
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles hope the weather forecast allows some time to get today's game in versus the Boston Red Sox with the clubs set to wrap up this three-game weekend series. The O's won 3-2 Friday, limiting Boston to two runs. But they gave up season highs in runs and hits on Saturday in a 17-4 loss. Today's game begins in a rain delay at the scheduled sta
García dealing with sore side; Espino, Gray getting skipped
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
PHILADELPHIA – News and notes before the Nationals (hopefully) take the field for their series finale against the Phillies (provided the weather holds up) … * Luis García is out of the lineup for the second straight day. Manager Davey Martinez said on Saturday the young second baseman was simply getting a breather and would be back for today’s game
Updating Félix Bautista and other pregame notes from the Yard
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Orioles closer Félix Bautista is ready to return to the bullpen rotation. He said he feels good and could have pitched last night. Bautista was not available for Friday’s series-opening game with Boston, manager Brandon Hyde told reporters after that game, due to arm fatigue. “It was mostly just fatigue. But thankfully I’m feeling a lot better, tha
Game 141 lineups: Nats at Phillies
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
PHILADELPHIA – The forecast here is not good. It’s supposed to rain all day. The forecast tomorrow is somewhat better, though not guaranteed to be dry. That’s the only remaining common off-day for the Nationals and Phillies. In other words, this has the potential to be a mess, and we could be here for a while, then possibly coming back tomorrow. Wh
Baumann recalled, Orioles lineup vs. Red Sox
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles need to flush yesterday’s 17-4 loss to the Red Sox and get ready for today’s series finale. They have plenty of water to do it. Rain is in the forecast all day. The Orioles surrendered 10 runs or more for the eighth time. The 17 runs and 21 hits were both season highs. Mike Baumann was recalled from Triple-A Norfolk this morning. The Or
After most lopsided loss of year, O's look for series win today
Steve Melewski
Orioles
It was a loss that was damaging to the Orioles' playoff hopes, but aren’t they all at this point? But a 17-4 loss felt every bit the blowout it was. The Orioles were down four runs in the first, seven runs in the fourth, trailed 10-3 after the fifth and needed outfielder Ryan McKenna to pitch to record the last out in the top of the ninth. It was b
Rutschman lives up to billing
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
One of the more jarring proclamations that I hear relating to rookie catcher Adley Rutschman is how he’s only going to get better. He isn’t a finished product. He’s just scratching the surface. He’s left indelible marks. Rutschman is the ninth player in major league history to record at least 40 extra-base hits and 50 walks in his first 89 career g
       
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