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- The Orioles find themselves in an 8-0 hole by the second inning, are no-hit until the sixth and lose to the Los Angeles Angels, 12-3.
- The Orioles' 6-19 start is the second worst in team history.
- The Orioles hope to get Jonathan Schoop back sooner than usual for the oblique injury he is rehabbing and Mark Trumbo could be in the lineup against the Angels next week. Tim Beckham's surgery went well, but he's out for at least six weeks.
- Opponents have walked Manny Machado intentionally three times this year and the strategy has worked each time.
- After a second straight three-game sweep dropped the Orioles to 5-14, the sentiment around the club is that what they've produced thus far is not good enough.
- Orioles right-hander Alex Cobb didn't make it through the fourth inning for the second straight start to begin his career with Baltimore.
- Center fielder Adam Jones said the Orioles need to stop making excuses and start winning, and that there wouldn't be any panic among them until "about June."
- The Orioles lost their fourth straight game and sixth of their past seven.
- The Orioles made a roster move for the eighth consecutive game day, giving right-hander David Hess his first big league call-up.
- The Orioles placed second baseman Jonathan Schoop — one of the team’s most durable players and top offensive contributors — on the 10-day disabled list with a right oblique strain before Saturday’s game against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.
- Five thoughts on the Orioles' first ten games, including the context of celebrating a losing road trip, the bullpen workload and results, and how the rotation succeeded in the Bronx, and more.
- Craig Gentry won an 11-pitch at-bat to drive in the go-ahead run in the 12th inning, and Brad Brach escaped a bases-loaded, no-outs jam in the bottom half for his second save of the season.
- Any success for the Orioles hinges on whether their one-trick offense can solve the game’s growing trend of pitching backward and adapt its free-swinging approach to a style of pitching meant to exploit it.
- In the 14th inning, more than five hours after the game began, Pedro Álvarez broke a 3-3 deadlock with a grand slam to help the Orioles to a 7-3 win over the New York Yankees.
- With a five-run seventh inning against the New York Yankees, the Orioles offense finally put together a big inning after a week of trying.
- Orioles right-hander Andrew Cashner rode his cutter — at times his best pitch in 2017 — to his first quality start with the team Thursday against the New York Yankees.
- Alec Asher has been claimed off waivers by the Dodgers. Also, first pitch, lineups, broadcast info, pitching matchups and what to watch against the Yankees on Thursday.
- In his second start of the season, Dylan Bundy delivered his second quality start, the only Orioles starting pitcher to go more than five innings.
- Chris Davis sat Wednesday after starting the season 1-for-20 in his first five games while hitting from the leadoff spot.
- Trey Mancini couldn't come up with Carlos Correa's first-inning fly ball, and a crazy bounce led to the first inside-the-park homer the Orioles had allowed since 2014.
- "Just trying to mess with the timing of the game,” Chance Sisco said of his ninth-inning bunt single. “He was kind of going through the lineup. Just trying to do what I can to get on base."
- Maryland astronaut Ricky Arnold of Bowie paid homage from space to Adam Jones' walk-off home run on Opening Day.
- Three emerging young stars have signed long-term contract extensions before reaching salary arbitration this spring — Paul DeJong, Scott Kingery, and Ketel Marte.
- Not a bad way to start your season.
- An Opening Day that seemed scripted for disaster Thursday at Camden Yards ended with the longest-tenured Oriole — center fielder Adam Jones — the hero.
- The Orioles won on Opening Day for the eighth straight year — and the third via walk-off hit — by beating the Twins 3-2 on March 29, 2018.
- A roundup of firsts from the Orioles' Opening Day game against the Minnesota Twins.
- How our reporters and editors saw the Orioles' 3-2 walk-off win against the Minnesota Twins on Opening Day at Camden Yards.
- Opening Day was the usual celebration of renewal for the Orioles and their fans, but it was also a time to reflect on those who might not be with the team next year.
- Orioles players heading toward free agency are staying in the moment.
- Orioles fans spent much of the offseason in a glum mood, but spirits lifted when the club landed pitcher Alex Cobb just nine days before opening their 2018 season against the Minnesota Twins,
- With so much uncertainty from top to bottom, is this the final ride for the Orioles core group?
- Where do the Orioles rank among these 10 when it comes to the misery they’ve inflicted on themselves and their fans?
- The Orioles were about to hand a prime-time assignment to top pitching prospect Hunter Harvey Wednesday against the New York Yankees, but Tuesday's rainout and the addition of Alex Cobb to the rotation conspired to see him sent out of major league camp.
- “They didn’t stop bothering me the whole offseason,” new Oriole Alex Cobb deadpanned Wednesday.
- The Orioles' Adam Jones, Tim Beckham, Darren O'Day, Kevin Gausman and Caleb Joseph praised the team's four-year agreement with right-hander Alex Cobb, who arrives with a proven record of success and fills out the starting rotation.
- Maybe it’s time to deal with the reality that Adam Jones might not be patrolling center field at Camden Yards a year from now.
- From all the way in Sarasota, the Orioles players watched in awe as UMBC upset top-seeded Virginia, the first time a No. 16 has won a game in the NCAA tournament.
- The Orioles used some rare station-to-station baseball to erase a big deficit in a 10-8 win over the Boston Red Sox and show what their ideal offense might look like a month from now.
- The veteran outfielder is here to win, which could mean he’s not here for long.
- Adam Jones said winning will be more important than dollars in deciding where he plays beyond this season.
- Zach Britton said he'd like to return to the Orioles, but the team hasn't given him the opportunity to even consider it.
- What the starting rotation will look like is just one of the pressing questions the Orioles face as spring training begins.
- The deal has netted 40.2 WAR, the third-best return in club history.
- Orioles reliever Darren O'Day: "We have teams that are stealing signs with video cameras now, so our sign system has to get more elaborate, so now it’s taking longer for us to get the pitches in."
- Even during an event Manny Machado didn’t attend, he was the focus as the Orioles announced he'd play shortstop and addressed his uncertain future.
- Adam Jones didn't want to talk about his lack of contract negotiations with the Orioles, but he didn't mind speculating about pending free agency.
- Buck Showalter spoke about a variety of topics on the Orioles' Hot Stove radio show on Thursday night.
- Trying to project the 25 players who will go north in late March shows how much work the club still has to do before it can say its business is finished this offseason.
- Manny Machado and Jonathan Schoop are among the seven arbitration-eligible Orioles players projected to make raises through the arbitration process.