adam eaton
- The Washington Nationals held a players-only meeting the discuss a fifth consecutive loss and the precarious spot they're now in beyond the halfway point of the season.
- The Orioles couldn't protect two middle-inning leads Tuesday night in a loss to the Washington Nationals.
- The Orioles weren’t expected to make a big splash during this week’s Winter Meetings at the Gaylord National Resort -- and they didn't.
- Nicklas Backstrom scored 1:36 into overtime, helping the Washington Capitals beat the Boston Bruins, 4-3, to avert a disastrous defeat Wednesday night.
- Ventura also ignited tension in three straight starts, spanning two weeks, last April.
- Young Orioles starter Mike Wright holds White Sox to two runs on five hits over six innings.
- A roundup of facts and numbers from Wednesday's game between the Orioles and Chicago White Sox, which was played at an empty Oriole Park.
- Their offense wasn't afforded a bailout similar to the previous night -- although it came close -- Tuesday in a 4-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox in front of an announced 20,596 at Camden Yards.
- For the second straight night, the Orioles lost on a walk-off home run, and while Monday's loss hurt, their 4-3, 11-inning defeat to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Tuesday night was devastating.
- While the Orioles bullpen has received its share of work over the course of the club's eight-game road trip to San Diego, San Francisco and Arizona, manager Buck Showalter says he isn't worried about his relievers tiring.
- PHOENIX ¿ The Orioles¿ 7-6 walkoff loss to the Diamondbacks on Monday night was a doozy. You cold sense that inside a silent O¿s clubhouse following the game.
- Despite Chris Davis' majors leading 43rd homer of the season and a gritty rally in the ninth, the Orioles dropped their series opener to the Arizona Diamondbacks, 7-6, with a walk-off loss in front of an announced 18,889 at Chase Field.
- When Koji Uehara -- the Orioles' first dip into the Asian talent pool -- arrived in Baltimore in 2009, one of my favorite things to watch that season was his interactions with his new Orioles teammates, especially the awkward high fives like the one pictured above (a photographer snapped that one last August).
- Baltimore is blessed with a bunch of talented sports bloggers who bring their unique perspective to the conversation. I often link up to these local writers in my morning Coffee Companion posts, but instead of just exchanging anti-social links with them, I have decided to be slightly less anti-social by exchanging emails with them in a somewhat regular feature called Blogger on Blogger.