Orioles bullpen brings its best until 10th in 3-2 loss (updated)
Orioles bullpen brings its best until 10th in 3-2 loss (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The bullpen game plotted tonight by Orioles manager Brandon Hyde began to live up to its definition perhaps a bit sooner than anticipated. Conner Greene couldn't give the Orioles a second inning as the opener, his 24 pitches in a scoreless first against the Phillies beginning the parade of relievers. Marcos Diplán tossed two scoreless innings. Thomas Eshelman stranded a runner in the fourth, retired the side in order in the fifth and struck out two batters in the sixth around J.T....
Rogers dazzles during a 7 2/3-inning gem in Miami (updated)
Rogers dazzles during a 7 2/3-inning gem in Miami (updated)
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
For only the sixth time this season, a Nationals starter took the mound for the eighth inning, the first such instance in more than three months. The guys who had previously done it? Max Scherzer, Patrick Corbin and Joe Ross. The guy who did it tonight in Miami? Josh Rogers. Yes, that Josh Rogers. The 27-year-old dumped from the Orioles' Triple-A roster earlier this summer. The one who signed a minor league deal with the Nats and got a chance to return to the majors earlier this month to start...
Jordan Westburg homers, but Bowie loses Game 1
Jordan Westburg homers, but Bowie loses Game 1
Steve Melewski
Orioles
BOWIE - The Bowie Baysox got an early lead tonight in Game 1 of the Double-A Northeast Championship Series. But the lead didn't hold up as the Baysox bats were silenced most of the night. Akron right-hander Peyton Battenfield allowed just one hit over seven innings as the RubberDucks beat Bowie 5-1 in the opener of the best-of-five series. Bowie will try to get even at home tomorrow night at 6:35 p.m. Battenfield was acquired by Cleveland on July 30. The Indians traded outfielder Jordan Luplow...
Kieboom sitting tonight after jamming left thumb
Kieboom sitting tonight after jamming left thumb
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Carter Kieboom is not in the Nationals lineup tonight after jamming his left thumb sliding into second base in the ninth inning of Monday night's loss in Miami. "Yesterday he got beat up a little bit, hurt his thumb a little bit," manager Davey Martinez said during his pregame Zoom session with reporters. "So we're just going to give him a day. And if we need him later on, we could use him." Kieboom had a pair of tough slides during the game. He barreled into Marlins pitcher Zach Thompson...
Stewart goes on injured list (plus lineups, Urías scratched)
Stewart goes on injured list (plus lineups, Urías scratched)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles have placed outfielder DJ Stewart on the 60-day injured list with a right knee osteochondral defect and selected the contract of reliever César Valdez from Triple-A Norfolk. Putting Stewart on the 60-day IL created a spot for Valdez on the 40-man roster. Stewart wasn't going to return before the season ended on Oct. 3. An osteochondral defect, according to a quick Internet search, refers to a focal area of damage that involves both the cartilage and a piece of underlying bone....
Game 151 lineups: Nats at Marlins
Game 151 lineups: Nats at Marlins
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
It's Rematch No. 2 tonight in Miami, and this time the dueling starters have the same name. Yes, for the second time in a week, it's Josh Rogers versus Trevor Rogers, and who doesn't get excited for that? The first showdown between these two left-handers occurred last Wednesday in D.C., with the Nationals' Rogers tossing five scoreless innings and the Marlins' Rogers allowing only one run over four innings. Things completely fell apart after that, though, especially on the Nats' side of...
Bowie's Cody Roberts on his game-winning hit Sunday
Bowie's Cody Roberts on his game-winning hit Sunday
Steve Melewski
Orioles
BOWIE - Two days removed from the must-win game that saved their season and got them to tonight, Bowie opens the Double-A Northeast Championship Series tonight, hosting Akron in Game 1 of a best-of-five series. Bowie's three-run rally in the eighth inning on Sunday gave the Baysox a 7-5 win over Altoona and sent Bowie to the playoffs, where tonight they begin a series seeking their second league championship after winning the 2015 Eastern League title. With the game tied 5-5 on Sunday, catcher...
Greene starting tonight, Orioles claim Krehbiel off waivers
Greene starting tonight, Orioles claim Krehbiel off waivers
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
With rookie Chris EIlis unavailable to make tonight's start due to some arm fatigue, the Orioles are going with Conner Greene in a bullpen game against the Phillies. Greene is making his first major league start after 18 relief appearances this season. He hasn't gone more than two innings or thrown more than 37 pitches, which happened in his debut on July 27 against the Marlins. Until allowing three runs Sunday in one-third of an inning at Fenway Park, Greene had strung together six scoreless...
O's game blog: Looking for two in a row over Phillies
O's game blog: Looking for two in a row over Phillies
Steve Melewski
Orioles
After they had allowed 24 runs in the Boston series, losing all three games, the Orioles pitched a shutout Monday night as they beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-0. It was a damaging loss to the Phillies' playoff chances. Lefty John Means and two relievers teamed on a four-hitter. It was the fourth shutout of the year for a Baltimore staff that had allowed 81 runs the previous nine games. * April 2: Means goes seven innings as O's blank Boston 3-0 on opening day.* May 5: Means pitches a...
Why do the Nats keep getting burned by Rule 5.09a(11)?
Why do the Nats keep getting burned by Rule 5.09a(11)?
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
You would think by now the Nationals wouldn't find themselves in the middle of yet another argument over the interpretation of Rule 5.09a(11). Not after it was used against Trea Turner twice, including most famously in Game 6 of the 2019 World Series. Yet there was Josh Bell, pleading his case after being struck in the back by a throw just as he reached first base in the top of the 10th Monday night in Miami, and there was Davey Martinez, giving an umpire an earful in the Nats dugout before...