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Chris Davis returned to the field Friday, playing his first game with the Orioles' instructional league team since his 25-game suspension for a positive amphetamine test.

MASN, the TV home for Orioles baseball during the regular season, will offer pre and post-game programs throughout the playoffs, Jim Cuddihy, the channel's executive vice president, said Friday.

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter beat the Orioles one last time, hitting a game-winning single in the bottom of the ninth inning for a 6-5 walk-off win Thursday.

Fan after fan said it as they waited for Ubaldo Jimenez to throw the first pitch Tuesday night at Camden Yards: "We just had to be here."

How does this year's squad stack up through 150 games against successful Orioles teams of the past?

Kelly Johnson has worn an Orioles uniform for just two weeks, but he already owns his own little part of Oriole Magic.

New York Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter said his final visit to Camden Yards this week brought back memories of his first full season in pinstripes, playing against the Orioles in the American League Championship Series and being in awe of Cal Ripken, Jr., who was a role model for Jeter.

"I mean, it's sad, you know?" said Cruz, who was suspended 50 games for his involvement in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing-drug scandal last season. "You don't want to see nobody go through this."

Orioles slugger Chris Davis has been suspended 25 games after testing positive for an amphetamine.

Now the Orioles' postseason dreams will have to be realized without Chris Davis, whose suspension would end, at the earliest, late in the American League Championship Series.

Orioles slugger Chris Davis was suspended 25 games by Major League Baseball on Friday for testing positive for Adderall, a banned stimulant. What does that mean for Davis and the Orioles?

Orioles manager Buck Showalter thinks the club's gift to Derek Jeter should be a photo of the home run that Jeter hit in Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series against the Orioles -- the one that 12-year-old Yankees fan Jeffrey Maier reached over the wall to deflect into a game-tying homer.

How does this year's squad stack up through 70 games against successful Orioles teams of the past?

The Orioles have struggled early offensively and defensively against two good teams.

With Opening Day just around the corner -- and the Orioles' 25-man roster being finalized over the next few days -- Delmon Young's story might be the best of the bunch.

The results weren¿t particularly impressive, but Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen seemed happy with his performance in his first competitive appearance since undergoing offseason surgery to remove bone spurs from his right knee.

TAMPA -- For the first time in his major league career, Brian Roberts faced the Orioles as an opponent on Tuesday night

Before Nelson Cruz was introduced to the media on Tuesday morning at the Ed Smith Stadium complex, his new teammates made a statement of solidarity that spoke volumes without saying a word.

Free agents Delmon Young and Jack Cust have been invited to this week's Orioles minicamp and could be signed as non-roster invitees, according to an industry source.

Earl Weaver called Don Buford "the best leadoff man in the game," and who's to argue? In five years with the Orioles, Buford batted .270, ran the bases with ferocity and helped the club reach three World Series.

When Tigers designated hitter Victor Martinez hit a game-tying homer in the bottom of the seventh inning on Monday, changing momentum in Game 4 of the American League Division between Detroit and Oakland, a lot of Orioles fans were surely taken back to 1996.

Second baseman called three years with organization 'maybe ... the best' of his career

The Orioles managed just five hits in seven innings against Sabathia ¿ and were held without a hit for the game¿s first five innings ¿ but McLouth¿s go-ahead solo homer off Sabathia in the bottom of the seventh was the difference in the Orioles¿ 4-3 comeback win in front of an announced 40,041 at Camden Yards.

The Orioles' two-game set with the Washington Nationals this week marks Davey Johnson's final trip to Baltimore.

Former Baltimore Orioles second baseman Roberto Alomar has been elected to the organization's Hall of Fame.

Marissa Coleman, B.J. Surhoff and Bruno Sammartino are part of The Sun Remembers This Week in Sports for December 16 to December 22

The Baltimore Orioles' first postseason in 15 years paid the team $2,124,312.75 in postseason shares.