addison reed
- The Orioles’ fate has long been determined, but Thursday night’s series-opening 5-2 loss to the Twins at Target Field – their 10th defeat in their past 11 games — offered some positives, but also more reasons for frustration.
- Season previews of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays.
- The Orioles decided to add ahead of Monday's trade deadline, but so did many of the American League's contenders.
- The beating the Orioles put on the Chicago White Sox bullpen last night -- five runs in the eighth inning off three relievers with ERAs over five -- was born of the same offseason strategy that the Orioles took with their bullpen.
- Despite not making the playoffs this season, the Orioles can say they got the best of the American League East champion Boston Red Sox.
- Hoping for their longest winning streak since the beginning of the second half, the Orioles instead received a shaky performance Sunday from starter Bud Norris and lost to the Chicago White Sox, 4-2.
- Down to their final out, the Orioles finally came though with men on, as Matt Wieters hit a two-out, two-run single in the 10th inning to deliver a 4-3 comeback win in front of an announced 23,653 at Camden Yards.
- Jason Hammel unraveled in the late innings as the Orioles dropped a 5-2 decision to the Chicago White Sox to snap their four-game winning streak.