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- Max Scherzer became the 17th pitcher since 1900 to strike out 300 batters in a season, reaching that milestone by fanning 10 in seven innings Tuesday night.
- Kevin Gausman recorded his fifth no-decision quality start Thursday night against the Nationals.
- Mark Trumbo hit a two-run homer and Andrew Cashner and Co. held the Washington Nationals to five hits in a rain-delayed 3-0 road win.
- The Orioles couldn't protect two middle-inning leads Tuesday night in a loss to the Washington Nationals.
- Orioles right-hander Dylan Bundy allowed multiple homers for the sixth time in his past seven starts Tuesday. It resulted in another loss.
- The Orioles and Nationals started their annual Battle of the Betway interleague series for 2018, but does anyone really care?
- An Orioles team built around offense was shut out for the fifth time this season in a 6-0 loss to the Washington Nationals on Monday at Camden Yards.
- Orioles starter Alex Cobb has pitched pretty well over his past six starts. Not that it has made any difference.
- Washington slugger Bryce Harper hit a broken-bat home run an estimated at 406 feet to right-center field. Perhaps even more surprisingly, the struggling Nationals rallied to cool off the Mets.
- The Washington Nationals had three arbitration-eligible players this winter — Anthony Rendon, Tanner Roark and Michael A. Taylor — a smaller class than they've
- Digest: Wieters breaks tie in 8th with grand slam in Nationals' 9-4 win over Cubs
- Orioles notes: Chris Davis gets first start at third since 2014 with Manny Machado out
- All week long, the Orioles have found ways to steal victories from the Washington Nationals in increasingly improbable fashion.
- Orioles' left-hander Wade Miley continued his tenuous start to 2017 with another tightrope outing against the Nationals.
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- The Orioles reaped their revenge against the Nationals without further incident, sweeping their beltway battle with a 5-4 victory over the Nationals Thursday afternoon in front of an announced 28,456 in the makeup game of Monday¿s rainout.
- Both dugouts emptied Wednesday night in the ninth inning of the Orioles' 4-3 comeback win when third baseman Manny Machado was hit on the left shoulder by a Jonathan Papelbon 93-mph fastball after Machado had hit a go-ahead two-run homer in his previous at-bat.
- American Pharoah was made the overwhelming 1-5 favorite in a 10-horse field and drew the No. 2 post on Tuesday night.
- Anthony Rendon is back on the Washington Nationals' active roster after he was reinstated from the disabled list Thursday.
- If you've been paying attention to the Orioles at all this season, you probably know that center fielder Adam Jones is off to one of the best starts of his career.
- Laurel Park closed its 2015 winter meet Sunday with total average handle up 14.6 percent overall and 15.8 percent on its live product.
- Laurin Mincy leads the ninth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team past George Washington, 75-65, at the Smith Center in Washington.
- Chen is well on track for the best season of his major league career.
- The Orioles (50-41) have reached the 50-win mark in their 91st game, the earliest since their wire-to-wire division-winning season of 1997.
- On Wednesday, Bud Norris struggled through his shortest outing of the season. He failed to get an out in the fifth inning, and Orioles pitchers gave up three homers in a 6-2 loss in front of an announced 35,575 at Camden Yards.
- CHICAGO (AP) ¿ Jeff Samardzija thought he would dominate the way he often does. Instead, he walked away frustrated with another loss. Samardzija struggled in a rare rough outing and the Chicago Cubs lost 7-2 to Washington, completing a day-night doubleheader sweep on a rainy Saturday night.
- The Orioles came to the winter meetings with their eyes on acquiring a left-handed hitter to help fill the void in left field and also at designated hitter.
- 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.