The Orioles will continue their trip down memory lane as they will take on another bygone World Series foe in the Cincinnati Reds. The Reds come into Baltimore in third place in the NL Central and assumed to be deeply entrenched in the playoff hunt. The Orioles, by contrast, are not. The Birds are coming […]

The Orioles banged out 18 hits last night in DC. 18 hits yet only four runs and in an overall sloppy, underwhelming game the Orioles end up losing 8-4. The Nationals needed only 10 hits to score their eight runs, only five were earned. Three unearned runs came in the bottom of the fifth inning […]

ESPN’s Buster Olney broke a story this week citing “MLB sources” that the powers that be are seriously considering major changes to the structure of the league. Here are the highlights: -Two 15 team leagues -Eliminating divisions (which would mean a balanced schedule) -Five playoff teams from each league The article is unclear whether interleague […]

Jays, A’s now the Rays. Sometimes I think the schedule makers like to have a little fun. Jeremy Hellickson takes his 2.38 ERA into Camden Yards tonight to face an Orioles team that has not beaten him in two attempts. Hell, the Orioles have not scored a run against the young starter in 14 innings. […]

The Orioles completed a three-game sweep of those pesky pesky Oakland Athletics. The A’s were dealt their ninth loss in a row after a 3-2 game yesterday at Camden Yards. The Orioles won on the backs of third baseman Mark Reynolds’ two-run homer in the fifth and a fantastic 5.1 inning, six strike out performance […]

The Orioles lost yesterday. So what else is new? Tonight the Birds will welcome a slipping Oakland Athletics team to Camden Yards, they are fresh off a rather heartbreaking sweep at the hands of the Boston Red Sox, but that is not the most important thing going on tonight. Tonight is the 2011 Amateur Draft […]

After one rehab start Derrek Lee is back in the lineup tonight for the Birds. The Orioles need a win tonight to avoid falling to a new season low six games under .500. After winning four in a row to get back to .500 the Orioles have lost six of their last seven their latest […]

See what I did there? Because the Orioles are the WORST on the WEST COAST! Yeah. I think the Baltimore heat is beginning to melt my brain, the Orioles’ lousy play over the long weekend certainly hasn’t helped matters. The Orioles followed up their feel-good four game winning streak with an equally abysmal four-game losing […]

Nothing good ever happens on the West Coast. The Orioles first west coast swing, at least two series in the pacific time zone, started last night in Oakland. Oakland is an infuriating team simply because they really should not give us as much trouble as they do. Shocking, the Orioles have not had a winning […]

The Orioles have had a bad week. An embarrassing week. The type of week that makes you question your ability to keep going with this team. After two heartbreaking losses in late innings against the Red Sox and Yankees the Orioles were then on the receiving end of two back-to-back colossal raw shellackings at the […]

Start the music. Brian Matusz will be making his first rehab start tonight. He will be under a restrictive 60 pitch count tonight in Frederick with the Orioles’ single-A affiliate Keys. If you are in the area, check it out – unless it rains. Between Spring Training and now it feels like Matusz has had […]

Good morning internets! The Orioles have had quite the season series against Tampa so far. First we sweep them in Tampa, then they sweep us in Baltimore. Friday Jeremy Hellickson shut the Birds out in a complete game, yesterday afternoon Brad Bergesen returned the favor using 108 pitches to make the Rays batters look silly […]

The Orioles fortunes hung on two pitches from Jeremy Guthrie today. Guthrie surrendered a season-worst seven runs in five innings, thus matching his shortest outing of the year as well. Six of the seven runs came off of a pair of three-run homers. In the second inning Guthrie coughed one up to Evan Longoria, his […]

Sitting here in the Camden Yards pressbox, as part of the Orioles continuing attempts to give us bloggers more access to the team, I am struck by a couple things. One, There is no more beautiful sight in the world than Camden Yards on a cool Spring afternoon, or morning in this case. The sun […]

In 2010 the Orioles signed Michael Gonzalez to be a shutdown closer and he had a nightmarish start to the season that we all want to forget. He was injured, he went away. But he came back and finished the season very very strong. In the second half Gonzalez pitched to a 2.78 ERA and […]