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- The Orioles have been waiting a long time to take the wraps off of Dylan Bundy.
- To end an 108-year championship drought, the Chicago Cubs absorbed a series of knockout blows from the Cleveland Indians, survived a collapse by their
- Orioles left-hander T.J. McFarland, who left Sunday afternoon¿s game with tenderness in his left elbow, is slated to get X-rays done on the area this morning.
- Making his first Grapefruit League start of the spring, right-hander Miguel Gonzalez was roughed up for seven runs on eight hits over 1 1/3 innings in the Orioles¿ 10-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Thursday afternoon at Charlotte Sports Park.
- Brandon Guyer ties it in ninth with a pinch-hit home run off closer Zach Britton, then Rays scratch across another run to win the game.
- Chris Davis' solo homer in the bottom of the 11th inning off Rays reliever Matt Andriese gave the Orioles a 7-6 walk-off victory, snapping their six-game losing streak. The Orioles entered the night having lost 11 of their last 12, their playoff hopes in need of major help.
- The Orioles¿ 5-2 victory over the Rays had its challenges, but still resulted in the team¿s second series win on their three-city road trip, even though they went just 4-5 overall.
- Matt Wieters is out of the starting lineup for today's series finale in Tampa Bay after complaining of back stiffness after catching Saturday's 5-1 win over the Rays.
- Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen didn't make it out of the fifth inning and the Orioles clung to a one-run victory, 6-5, over the Tampa Bay Rays in front of an announced 13,906 at Tropicana Field.
- The Orioles will play their first split-squad games of spring training Thursday when they travel to Port Charlotte to face the Tampa Bay Rays at 1:05 p.m. and then play host to the Toronto Blue Jays at Ed Smith Stadium at 7:05 p.m.
- The Orioles didn't play their best baseball this weekend. But after a career day by Nelson Cruz in a 7-5 win in 11 innings over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday afternoon, they left Tropicana Field with a 9 1/2-game lead in the American League East.
- Right-hander Evan Meek and left-hander Brian Matusz combined to give up nine runs -- including seven in a decisive sixth inning -- and the Orioles set a new season-high in runs allowed in a 12-7 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays in the series finale Sunday afternoon at Camden Yards.
- The Orioles bullpen went into the sixth inning of Sunday afternoon¿s game against the Tampa Bay Rays having allowed just one runs over the past 30 innings or work.
- For several weeks, the Baltimore Orioles¿ starting rotation was becoming one of the club¿s biggest strengths. And it wasn¿t the typical five pitchers, but rather a six-man rotation.
- In a battle of minor league pitchers promoted for the afternoon game of Friday's day-night doubleheader, the Tampa Bay Rays' Alex Colome bested the Orioles' Kevin Gausman.
- Delmon Young and Jonathan Schoop aren't in today's lineup.
- Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez overcame a rocky first inning to allow two runs over five hits over six innings in a 3-3, 10-inning tie with the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday afternoon at Charlotte Sports Park.
- Chris Tillman has been put on the 15-day disabled list with left abdominal strain retroactive to March 22. He will be able to come off the DL on April 6 and pitch the Orioles' fifth game of the season against the Minnesota Twins.
- Orioles farmhand Jesse Beal gets the start against David Price.
- The first-place Orioles used a catcher¿s interference call to ignite a fifth-inning rally and took advantage of an overall abysmal defensive showing to slip by Tampa Bay, 5-3.