Orioles announce spring training schedule and report dates
Orioles announce spring training schedule and report dates
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
The Orioles already can plan ahead to 2022 spring training, with their first exhibition game played on Saturday, Feb. 26 against the Yankees at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. Fla. They travel to Port Charlotte the following day to face the Rays. Pitchers and catchers are set to report to the complex on Feb. 15, with the full squad due five days later. This is the Orioles' 13th spring training in Sarasota after moving out of Fort Lauderdale. More than one million fans have attended games at Ed...
Game 120 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays
Game 120 lineups: Nats vs. Blue Jays
Bobby Blanco
Nationals
Unfortunately for the Nationals, Joe Ross' season-ending injury is another blow to an already depleted rotation, one that bears no resemblance to what the club expected to have at the beginning of the season. Fortunately, the two off-days this week surrounding this two-game set with the Blue Jays allow those who are available to pitch to do so on normal rest, not requiring manager Davey Martinez to do much shuffling. This afternoon we'll get another look at Josiah Gray, who has become a...
Orioles announce 2022 spring training schedule
Orioles announce 2022 spring training schedule
Pete Kerzel
Orioles
The Orioles today announced their 2022 Grapefruit League schedule, which is slated to begin Saturday, February 26, at Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota, Fla. against the New York Yankees. The club's 2022 spring schedule features 16 home games, including eight weekend games. The Orioles will face nine different opponents during Grapefruit League play, with 13 of the club's 32 games against American League East divisional rivals - Boston Red Sox (4 games; 2 at home), New York Yankees (3 games; 1 at...
Third baseman Coby Mayo joins '21 draft picks in Delmarva
Third baseman Coby Mayo joins '21 draft picks in Delmarva
Steve Melewski
Orioles
SALISBURY, Md. - Drafted by the Orioles out of a Florida high school in round four of the 2020 draft, third baseman Coby Mayo had to wait to start his pro career with no minor league season last year. Then, when this season began, he injured his knee in spring training in April and his chance to begin the minor league season for opening day in May was over. There was more waiting and some rehab. But his day finally came this year in late June in the Rookie-level Florida Complex League and the...
Hand thankful for brief time with Nats, new chance with Jays
Hand thankful for brief time with Nats, new chance with Jays
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Amid the chaos of his move from the Nationals to the Blue Jays just prior to last month's trade deadline, Brad Hand couldn't help but chuckle when he noticed where one of his new team's first road trips would take him. "Right when I got traded, I looked at the Toronto schedule and knew that we were coming here in two weeks," Hand said Tuesday near the visitors' dugout at Nationals Park. "I left my golf clubs here, so I'll have to pick those up." It was a convenient - or perhaps in some...
Adams delivers against Jays, Nats snap losing streak (updated)
Adams delivers against Jays, Nats snap losing streak (updated)
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
The opportunity was too good for Davey Martinez to pass up. Though it was probably Tres Barrera's turn to catch tonight's series opener against the Blue Jays, the Nationals manager wanted to give Riley Adams a chance to face the team that traded him three weeks ago. Adams, Martinez would reveal in the dugout before the game, was notably excited when his manager told him he'd be starting tonight. And then the 25-year-old took his latest step in making his case to be part of this rebuilding...
Mistakes and homers doom O's as skid reaches 13 (updated)
Mistakes and homers doom O's as skid reaches 13 (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Only the pitch count was threatening John Means tonight. At least for a while. Means carried a two-hit shutout into the fourth inning at Tropicana Field, but he already threw 66 pitches - 12 to strike out Kevin Kiermaier in the third. A bigger issue arose when Jorge Mateo's error led to three unearned runs, the last two coming on Mike Zunino's homer. Means was at 80 pitches heading into the fifth, Nelson Cruz hit a three-run homer and the Orioles' losing streak reached 13 games with the Rays...
This, that and the other
This, that and the other
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
As the oddities of the 2021 season stack up like bar Jenga, though they never crash to the floor, I have to admit that I didn't anticipate how running out of first basemen would be one of the pieces. I must have blocked it out. The Orioles were criticized for having too many corner outfield/first base types. OK, perhaps. I've probably said it a few times. But Ryan Mountcastle goes on the concussion injured list, Trey Mancini suddenly is starting every night at first after settling in as the...
No surgery for now, but Ross will miss rest of season
No surgery for now, but Ross will miss rest of season
Mark Zuckerman
Nationals
Joe Ross won't need Tommy John surgery for now, but the Nationals right-hander will miss the rest of the season after getting examined by the Dallas-area orthopedist who performed his first elbow ligament replacement four years ago. The diagnosis from Keith Meister was a sprained ulnar collateral ligament, which is consistent with the team's initial MRI results last weekend that showed a partial tear. A full tear would've guaranteed Tommy John surgery. The partial tear leaves some leeway for...
Orioles and Rays lineups (updated)
Orioles and Rays lineups (updated)
Roch Kubatko
Orioles
Trey Mancini is out of the Orioles lineup after fouling a ball off his left calf and left foot last night and leaving the game following his run-scoring double. Ryan Mountcastle is starting at first base after his reinstatement from the concussion injured list. Mountcastle has an RBI in seven consecutive games, the longest active streak in the majors and the second-longest of his career behind an eight-game stretch from May 31-June 9. He leads the Orioles with 15 RBIs since the All-Star break...