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John Means is the first homegrown Orioles starter to make the All-Star team since Mike Mussina and the club's only representative July 9 in Cleveland.

By Jon Meoli

Jun 30, 2019

Former Orioles pitcher and 2019 Hall of Fame inductee Mike Mussina threw out the first pitch against the Cleveland Indians.

By Giana Han

Jun 30, 2019

The Orioles are 20-45, tied for the majors' worst record. Are enough of those losses close that switching half to wins would put them "right in the mix"?

By Nathan Ruiz

Jun 10, 2019

The Orioles opened their three-game series on a very positive note Friday, but didn't really show up in the final two games of their series against the Giants

By Peter Schmuck

Jun 2, 2019

The $300 million infielder was greeted with loud boos and chants of “Over-rated!” on Monday in his first visit to New York since free agency.

It wasn't the usual shower of home runs, but the outcome remained the same. The Yankees ran their winning streak at Oriole Park to 12 with a 6-5 victory.

By Peter Schmuck

May 23, 2019

The Orioles have allowed at least five home runs seven times, an AL record, and have done so in 49 games.

By Nathan Ruiz

May 22, 2019

Tuesday night’s Orioles-Yankees game was postponed, the second straight meeting between the American League East foes called off because of weather.

By Nathan Ruiz

May 14, 2019

Orioles left-hander John Means continued his upstart beginning to his rookie campaign with seven innings of one-run ball in Monday night’s 4-1 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Camden Yards.

By Nathan Ruiz

May 6, 2019

With Pedro Severino out of minor league options, the Washington Nationals had to pass him through waivers once they decided he wasn’t going to make their roster this spring. The Orioles claimed him, and a little more than a month into the season, both they and Severino are better for it.

By Nathan Ruiz

May 5, 2019

A start such as the one right-hander Dylan Bundy delivered in the Orioles’ 3-0 victory over the Rays was a long time coming. The 26-year-old right-hander hadn’t completed seven innings since July 29 of last season

By Nathan Ruiz

May 4, 2019

Rio Ruiz faced a four-man outfield in the Orioles' previous series against the Tampa Bay Rays, and with the Rays visiting Camden Yards for a series this weekend, it’s possible he’ll see it again. Ruiz emphasized the key to succeeding against such a shift is to avoid changing his approach.

By Nathan Ruiz

May 4, 2019

Orioles slugger Chris Davis is a lot like the rebuilding team itself — largely dismissed, more-than-occasionally mocked and with nothing to do but simply go out every night and try and win in the face of it all.

By Jon Meoli

May 3, 2019

Former Orioles had some fun this week.

By Jennifer Badie

May 2, 2019

Dylan Bundy's home run problems last year were all his own. This year, they fit alarmingly well with the rest of the Orioles' pitching staff.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 11, 2019

Monday's Orioles-Athletics game had an announced attendance of 6,585, the lowest for an Orioles game at Camden Yards in which fans were admitted.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 8, 2019

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde pulled right-hander David Hess in the seventh inning of a no-hit bid that the Orioles led 6-0 at the time, only to cling to a 6-5 win to improve to 3-1.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 1, 2019

If there's anything worth taking away from the Orioles' series win in New York to start the season, it's not how often they'll be able to replicate it, but that they're unburdened from anything but that day's game and can actually enjoy it.

By Jon Meoli

Apr 1, 2019

Orioles first baseman Chris Davis was left out of the lineup for the second game of the season against tough left-hander James Paxton, but manager Brandon Hyde said it won't always be the case.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 30, 2019

The Orioles' long rebuild comes with the hope that one day they can compete with the Yankees. Opening Day showed how hard that will be this season.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 28, 2019

Orioles manager Brandon Hyde made sure he took in every part of his first Opening Day in charge of baseball's most daunting rebuilding project, showing the balance of competitive fire and compassion that made the team hire him.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 28, 2019

New Orioles manager Brandon Hyde knows he is in for a very challenging season, but he seems well prepared to make his debut as a major league manager.

By Peter Schmuck

Mar 28, 2019

As the Orioles rebuild rolls on behind the scenes, the major league team will be playing with a mandate of competing, and might actually play in a way that past Orioles teams frustrated by not doing.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 27, 2019

Just because the Orioles are projected to finish dead-last in Major League Baseball doesn't mean Baltimore should despair (well, not completely anyway).

The Orioles are trying to lift themselves from the ashes of their historically bad 2018 season, and — win or lose — they can lift up their troubled city if their effort sends the right message to the fans.

By Peter Schmuck

Mar 21, 2019

New York Yankees guest instructor Lee Mazzilli was struck in the head by a ball in batting practice Wednesday and taken to a local hospital.

Alex Cobb struck out the first four batters he faced — one apiece on a fastball, curveball and split-change in the first inning — and didn't allow any of his four hits until the Blue Jays’ three-run fifth inning in an eventual 4-3 Orioles win at Dunedin Stadium. 

By Jon Meoli

Mar 16, 2019

The Orioles played the Boston Red Sox at Ed Smith Stadium. Gabriel Ynoa pitched three scoreless innings. Andrew Cashner started and gave up a run on one hit and two walks. Drew Jackson continues to swing a hot bat.

By Peter Schmuck

Mar 8, 2019

Orioles prospect Dillon Tate logs everything he does in a green spiral-bound notebook to try to create a path to the consistency that will take him to the next level.

By Jon Meoli

Mar 7, 2019

Mike Wright Jr. became the first Orioles pitcher to go three innings Saturday and delivered his third straight scoreless appearance in a lopsided victory over the Red Sox.

By Peter Schmuck

Mar 2, 2019

Orioles catcher Chance Sisco hit two homers and drove in five runs in a 3-for-3 performance against the Boston Red Sox.

By Peter Schmuck

Feb 27, 2019

When he learned about Manny Machado’s reported $300 million deal with the San Diego Padres, young Yankees fan Jacob Carpenter argued he was glad the former Orioles star would not be suiting up in pinstripes, as some in New York had hoped.

By Colin Campbell

Feb 20, 2019

Veteran pitcher Nathan Karns signed with the Orioles after missing the entire 2018 season and says that he did it to return to the toughest division in baseball.

By Peter Schmuck

Feb 14, 2019

For the rebuilding Orioles, it's all about the kids, but the thirty-somethings on the roster still have a lot to offer,

By Peter Schmuck

Feb 13, 2019

Orioles fans aren't going to have much to cheer about if they concentrate the won-loss column this year, so they have to reset their expectations this spring.

By Peter Schmuck

Feb 10, 2019

A pair of MLB Network analysts who faced Mike Mussina plenty — Hall of Famer Jim Thome and Kevin Millar — feel strongly that this should be the year Mussina is enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 21, 2019

Three years after the Orioles and Chris Davis agreed to his club-record, $161 million deal, the ramifications on the Orioles' payroll, their rebuild and the game of baseball continue to grow.

By Jon Meoli

Jan 16, 2019

Rick Down, who was the hitting coach when the Orioles set the then-major league record with 257 home runs in 1996, is dead at 68 after a long illness.

By Peter Schmuck

Jan 10, 2019

The challenge facing the new Orioles front office is daunting and there are no guarantees, but anything will be better than last season.

By Peter Schmuck

Dec 28, 2018

As long as the American League continues tipping toward New York and Boston franchises, a Baltimore team is doomed to second place or worse.

The Orioles introduced their new general manager, Mike Elias, on Monday. Elias emphasized that "the plan is simple. We're going to build an elite talent pipeline."

By Peter Schmuck

Nov 19, 2018

The Maryland Sports Boosters put on a 1983 World Series reunion gala on Wednesday night in conjunction with the Babe Ruth Museum. There were plenty of players from that team in attendance and many of them were wondering when the Orioles will knock them off that pedestal.

By Peter Schmuck

Nov 15, 2018

The executive search would be daunting enough, but another round of arbitration in the long-running Mid-Atlantic Sports Network rights dispute with the Washington Nationals also is a major source of concern for the Orioles. Both situations could come to a head this month.

By Peter Schmuck

Nov 3, 2018

Steve Pearce, who has played for all five American League East teams, including the Orioles, is named World Series MVP after helping the Boston Red Sox defeat the Los Angeles Dodgers in the 2018 World Series.

The two have “gotten to be good friends,” Harbaugh said, with golf dates and the occasional suggestion about how quarterback Joe Flacco should slide.

By Jonas Shaffer

Oct 15, 2018

After seven years as an Orioles beat writer, Eduardo A. Encina says goodbye as he leaves The Sun.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Oct 4, 2018

Buck Showalter is on the hook for dismal Orioles season that was result of years of poor long-range planning.

By Peter Schmuck

Oct 3, 2018

The merciful end of the 2018 season has finally arrived for an Orioles team that might never live down what happened this year.

By Peter Schmuck

Sep 30, 2018

Just a handful of Astros who won last year's World Series were with the team when their rebuild began, a signal to the Orioles and their fans that they might not see the current players around when the winning returns.

By Jon Meoli

Sep 28, 2018

The Orioles ended their season series at Yankee Stadium with a 5-4 record, the only AL park they will have a winning record at in 2018.

By Eduardo A. Encina

Sep 23, 2018