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Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen briefly flirted with history Wednesday afternoon at Fenway Park. He had to settle for his 15th win of the year while guiding the Orioles to a sweep in their 10-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox before an announced 35,374.

The Orioles flexed their muscles again Tuesday night, hitting three home runs, including two by Alejandro De Aza, in a 4-1 win against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.

According to MLB.com, Lackey called the Orioles catcher¿s Caleb Joseph¿s two-run, second-inning home run a "Baltimore home run,¿ as in he doesn¿t think it was a real home run.

Sometimes shadows at certain ballparks play a factor depending on game time. The way a batted ball carries can be different whether it is day or night. And in Monday's 4-2 win over the Los Angeles Angels, the Orioles learned about a certain nuance of Angel Stadium of Anaheim the hard way.

Winning two of three games this weekend at Fenway Park wasn't easy, but the Orioles had reason to celebrate after surviving their series finale Sunday afternoon with a 7-6 victory over the Boston Red Sox in 12 innings.

Nelson Cruz¿s five-hit night helped send Red Sox right-hander John Lackey to an early exit in the Orioles' 7-4 win over Boston in the nightcap of the teams' doubleheader, but following the game, Lackey have much positive to say about Cruz.

When Ubaldo Jimenez walked off the mound in the fourth inning in the nightcap of the Orioles' split doubleheader Saturday night, a split of their twin bill against the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park seemed unlikely.

The Orioles didn't show any sign of fatigue early, jumping on Red Sox right-hander Clay Buchholz for six runs in the third inning. And they withstood a late rally by Boston for a 7-6 victory in front of an announced sellout crowd of 37,513 at Fenway Park.

During every game, Orioles manager Buck Showalter has a card with him that tells him which plays are reviewable and which ones aren¿t. The color coding is simple. The plays in green can be reviewable, the plays in red cannot.

The Orioles saw a five-run lead disappear Sunday night at Fenway Park before a win completely escaped them in the late innings against the defending world champion Boston Red Sox.

Opening a four-game wrap-around series at Fenway in a 39-degree New England chill at first pitch, the Orioles (8-7) won their third straight game and have won seven of their last 10.

The momentum the Orioles built over their first two nights against the Red Sox at Fenway Park quickly diminished Thursday.

On a night when slugger Chris Davis made Orioles history with his 51st home run of the season ¿ setting a single-season franchise record ¿ the team's hero was its unheralded hottest hitter.

If right-hander Chris Tillman is indeed the Orioles¿ ace, if he is indeed a bona fide top starter who can walk into any situation against any club and succeed, than he had the perfect opportunity to prove it Thursday night at Fenway Park.

Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had never thrown fewer than four innings or given up more than seven runs in any of his starts as a major leaguer. He picked a particularly inopportune time to do both.

Manny Machado's three-run home run caps a five-run ninth-inning rally as the Orioles beat the Boston Red Sox, 8-5, to snap a three-game losing streak.

Orioles pitcher Wei-Yin Chen held the Red Sox scoreless for six innings on Monday in Boston¿s home opener.

Each Wednesday, Baltimore Sun blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Baltimore Orioles.

Orioles third baseman Danny Valencia launched a solo homer in the ninth inning off Red Sox reliever Terry Doyle to give the Orioles an 8-7 win over Boston at JetBlue Park on Tuesday afternoon.

NASHVILLE -- Impacted first hand by colleagues being diagnosed by cancer, public relations officials from Major League Baseball and its 30 clubs announced Monday afternoon they have organized a unique auction to benefit Stand Up to Cancer.

The Orioles stranded the bases loaded in the top of the ninth inning -- the tying run just 90 feet away -- for a 2-1 loss to the Red Sox in front of an announced sellout crowd of 37,310.

The Pesky Pole got the best of the Orioles on Sunday afternoon. In the Orioles' 2-1 loss to the Red Sox at Fenway Park, the 100-year-old ballpark's fabled right-field corner played a huge part in two key plays.

Orioles second baseman Robert Andino, who was hit in the left earflap of his batting helmet in the ninth inning of Friday night's game, didn't play Saturday because he was still waiting to pass a concussion test.

When the Orioles acquired Jim Thome on July 1, they did so hoping the 41-year-old had enough hits left in his bat to help them reach the postseason for the first time in 15 years.

There's something about playing the Red Sox that has brought out the best in Orioles first baseman Mark Reynolds.

Maryland state champion Upper Montgomery County came into Monday's round of American pool play with a chance to put a real stranglehold on the rest of the division, but the team from Mililani, Hawaii, the Pacific Southwest champ, had other ideas

The Orioles (31-24) extended their Fenway Park mark to 4-0 this season ¿ three of those wins coming in extra innings. The teams have now played 49 innings at Fenway this year ¿ the equivalent of roughly 5 ½ games.

Orioles designated hitter Chris Davis pitched two scoreless innings as the O's beat the Red Sox in 17 innings. Adam Jones' three-run homer in the 17th gave the Orioles a 9-6 edge over Boston and their first series sweep at Fenway Park since 1994.

J.J. Hardy has done plenty to help the Orioles this season with his glove, but it wasn't until Sunday when he felt his bat was catching up.

Right-hander Tommy Hunter had his shortest outing of the season today in the Orioles' series finale against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Orioles ride seven-run third inning to an 8-2 win over Red Sox. Jones and Reynolds homer as Orioles clinch back-to-back series wins in New York and Boston for the first time in 20 years.

The Orioles sent 10 batters to the plate in a seven-run third inning that has opened Saturday afternoon's game against the Red Sox at Fenway Park.

Before the masses start thinking that there¿s a rift between Orioles third baseman Mark Reynolds and manager Buck Showalter, let¿s squash that -- and tell you about what you don¿t see on television.

Orioles' bullpen shuts down the Red Sox in extra innings

In Sunday's night game against the New York Yankees, the 25-year-old Ryan Flaherty made his first start for the Orioles in right field. The day before he started in left — in front of the replica Green Monster wall at the Boston Red Sox spring facility, JetBlue Park.

Right-hander Armando Galarraga, who is hoping to make the Orioles after missing much of last season because of injury, tired after a solid early performance and ended up allowing four runs in four innings as the Boston Red Sox beat the Orioles, 7-4, in a split-squad game at JetBlue Park.

In his first Grapefruit League game, Orioles top prospect Dylan Bundy settled in and set down the Red Sox. The 19-year-old right-hander issued one walk in one scoreless inning against the top of Boston's batting order.

Orioles' comeback falls short in 5-4 loss to Red Sox

In the first completed Cal Ripken World Series game of Day 3 of the tournament Monday, Maryland representative Charles County (2-0) scored five runs in the bottom of the fifth inning to upend Pacific Northwest champion, Kennewick, Wash., (0-1), 5-3, in American Pool action at Nationals Park.