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Nats hope little tweak gets Finnegan back on track
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
NEW YORK – Watching Kyle Finnegan labor through the top of the eighth Sunday afternoon at Nationals Park, Davey Martinez felt like something didn’t look right with the Nats reliever. The results certainly weren’t up to Finnegan’s standards: He retired only one of the five batters he faced, allowing three singles and a double, letting two Rockies ru
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O's game blog: The road trip finale at Boston
Steve Melewski
Orioles
The Orioles wrap up a two-city, eight-game road trip tonight at Boston, playing the fifth and final game of their series at Fenway Park. The winner of tonight’s game wins the series, which is tied at two wins each. O’s pitching allowed five doubles and five homers Sunday as the Red Sox rolled to a 12-2 win – the Orioles' most lopsided loss of the s
Notes on Orioles rotation, Kremer and more
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
BOSTON – The Orioles are waiting until Tuesday morning to announce their starter for the series opener against the Mariners at Camden Yards. Kyle Bradish starts Wednesday, followed by Jordan Lyles on Thursday in his 300th career game. A pitcher could come up from Triple-A Norfolk or manager Brandon Hyde goes with another bullpen game to piece toget
Game 50 lineups: Nats at Mets
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
NEW YORK – The Nationals have won four of their last five. As such, they’ve improved to 18-31 on the season. Which means if they win tonight’s series opener against the Mets, they’ll be 19-31. And we all know what that means. OK, so it probably wouldn’t mean what it meant three years ago when the Nats got swept in this very ballpark to fall to 19-3
Orioles lineup vs. Red Sox
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
BOSTON – The Orioles still can claim the five-game series against the Red Sox with a victory tonight that concludes their homestand. The teams have split the first four games, with the Red Sox cruising yesterday to a 12-2 win. “We just need to let this one go,” said manager Brandon Hyde. “We’ve been playing good baseball, we’ve played competitively
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Strasburg moves step closer after dominant rehab start
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Stephen Strasburg was already in the home clubhouse at Nationals Park by the time Sunday’s 6-5 victory over the Rockies was completed, the traffic on northbound Interstate-95 apparently not nearly as awful as you’d typically expect it to be on a holiday weekend. While the Nats were hanging on to beat Colorado and earn their first home series win of
The O's build-a-'pen from almost scratch has been working big so far
Steve Melewski
Orioles
Can you build a bullpen and get significant contributions from other teams' castoffs and have that bullpen perform about as well as any in baseball? So far, for the Orioles, that answer is yes. Over time we will see if this bullpen can keep up its impressive start and how the ‘pen will hold up when having to cover so many innings. But if we gave a
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Three nagging questions about the Orioles
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
BOSTON - With years spent dumping out my mailbag, making snow angels with the contents, reading the questions and spending way too much time searching for movie sequel titles that I haven’t already used, I’d like to switch it up and provide some inquiries of my own. See how the other half lives. Nothing about timelines for major league promotions,
Zimmermann surrenders five home runs in lopsided loss (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
BOSTON – Bruce Zimmermann spun on the mound again, the sound of the contact telling him where the ball was going to land. He watched anyway. And then he needed to figure out quickly how to eliminate the mistakes and hope the Orioles had more rallies inside of them. He couldn’t, and they didn’t. Bobby Dalbec hit a two-run homer in the second inning,
Early homers, late escape act give Nats series win
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
No team in the National League has hit fewer home runs than the Nationals, who entered today’s series finale with only 30 of them through the season’s first 48 games and lengthy individual power droughts by some of their biggest power hitters. Through it all, manager Davey Martinez has been positive the homers will come, as hitters get their timing