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- Chris Davis ended an 0-for-13 stretch with a go-ahead solo homer Tuesday night.
- The Orioles might have avoided a real headache in a year full of them by missing out on Jason Vargas, and despite all that’s gone badly for them this season, it looks like Andrew Cashner was the right pitcher to stabilize their rotation.
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Back on 'the right path,' Alex Cobb delivers best start as Oriole to win series opener vs. Mets, 2-1
In his 10th start with the club, Alex Cobb finally showed himself to be the pitcher the Orioles signed him to be. - Pitching matchups, TV, radio and more about Tuesday's Orioles-Mets game.
- Chris Tillman spent the past three days reduced to the role of spectator, watching the Orioles’ spring training workout from the complex’s weight room, waiting for his reunion with the team to become official. It became official Wednesday.
- The Orioles and Chris Tillman took a while to get a deal done, but the one-year deal for Tillman's return became official.
- Former Orioles pitcher Scott Feldman could be a possibility.
- Right-hander Chris Tillman should make his decision on his 2018 club within the next 48-72 hours.
- One lesson the Orioles have drawn from recent seasons is that multiyear contracts for starters are too risky.
- Can vice president of baseball operations Dan Duquette turn it around over the last weekend before workouts start?
- The Orioles used to be alone in waiting out a few free agents into February and March, but it's clear that the widespread adoption of that is destructive to both their plans and the league
- As the Orioles reach the mid-January minicamp checkpoint in their offseason, little has changed in their pursuits of starting pitching or the possible trade of star Manny Machado.
- With six weeks left to fill out their starting rotation, the Orioles find a free-agent market that has only changed in ways that makes things worse for them.
- Depending on whether the Orioles decide to crack open their coffers for big-name starting pitchers in free agency, shop in the middle of the market, or wait it out until January, there are plenty of ways they can rebuild their rotation this offseason.
- The Orioles will be seeking a left-handed starting pitcher this offseason.
- Orioles have to stop fooling themselves and commit to signing some quality pitching.
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- First pitch, broadcast info, pitching matchups and what to watch tonight against the Royals.
- Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez certainly deserved a win Friday night against the Chicago White Sox. And more often than now, holding an opponent to one run over seven innings will get a victory.
- First baseman Chris Davis, serving a 25-game suspension after testing positive for amphetamines, was with the club throughout the ALCS partially because the Orioles hoped to assimilate him back in case the club went to the World Series.
- The Orioles' "We Won't Stop" season finally came to a screeching halt Wednesday at Kauffman Stadium when the won't-be-beat Kansas City Royals won another nailbiter, 2-1, in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.
- Baltimore Sun columnist Peter Schmuck looks at several key moments from Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.
- With the Orioles on the brink of elimination, the American League Championship Series took a bizarre turn when a player called a news conference before Wednesday's Game 4 so he could apologize for the T-shirt he wore while talking to the media the night before.
- The Orioles haven't used Delmon Young to pinch hit in close games recently.
- It will come down to Orioles right-hander Miguel Gonzalez against the Kansas City Royals in Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday.
- Orioles manager Buck Showalter said Tuesday that right-hander Miguel Gonzalez would start Game 4 of the American League Championship Series on Wednesday, assuming he isn't needed in relief in Game 3.
- As the bliss slowly ebbed out of Camden Yards on Saturday, the victim of another grinding effort by the unsinkable Kansas City Royals, a new reality set in for Orioles fans.
- Darren O¿Day had not only been one of the most instrumental parts of the Orioles' stellar bullpen, but he¿s also the unquestioned leader of the Orioles relief corps.
- The Orioles just toppled two Cy Young Award winners to move to the threshold of the American League Championship Series and the Wild-Card Kansas City Royals have turned baseball convention on its head to win three straight extra-inning games, the last two to push the winningest team in baseball, the Los Angeles Angels, to the brink of elimination.
- SARASOTA, Fla. ¿ Even though the Orioles handed out a historic four-year, $48-million deal to right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez, the club believes it has gotten a deal given the money being handed out on the free-agent market.
- The club signed 26-year-old infielder Sharlon Schoop, who is the older brother of the club¿s top infield prospect, 22-year-old Jonathan Schoop
- The Orioles haven't negotiated with any of their seven free agents yet as the exclusive signing period ended. But that's not too surprising.
- Today is the nonwaiver trade deadline and Orioles are still looking for a bat and pitching help.
- There will be plenty of rumors over the next five weeks and the Orioles will likely be involved in many of them. The Orioles have some trade chips, but at what price would the club make a deal?
- Leading 4-2 in the seventh, Orioles reliever Pedro Strop allowed a three-run triple to Angels No. 9 hitter Erick Aybar that sparked a six-run inning and quickly changed the momentum of the game.
- One night after Camden Yards was transformed into a slipping, sliding mud bowl by heavy rainstorms, the Orioles played one of their crispest games of the season on a pleasant baseball Tuesday evening in Baltimore.
- Consecutive infield singles from Danny Valencia, Steve Pearce and Ryan Flaherty with two outs set up right fielder Nick Markakis¿ two-run single to right-center field.
- The Orioles' 4-0 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night might have come at a greater price. First baseman Chris Davis, hobbled off the field in the fifth inning with what the team initially diagnosed as a right knee injury.
- As a veteran of 14 major league seasons, it took a while for right-hander Freddy Garcia to get used to those long bus rides in Triple-A.
- Backed by eight shutout innings from right-hander Chris Tillman in his first career start back home in Orange County, the Orioles beat the Angels 5-1 at Angel Stadium to take the first game of this four-game series.
- The Orioles have had interest in Juston Smoak since the 2008 draft, when the Orioles took Brian Matusz with the fourth pick in the first round and the Texas Rangers grabbed Smoak with the 11th selection.
- Orioles pitcher Chris Tillman picked up his fourth straight victory and the Orioles won for the sixth time in their last eight games, beating the Seattle Mariners, 3-1.
- As we reported last night, the salary of Joe Blanton is a sticking point in a deal to bring the husky right-hander to Baltimore. The Orioles just aren¿t paying $3 million or anything close to it for a two-month rental, No. 4-type starter
- When things spiral out of control for Hunter, it is often because of his tendency to give up home runs. That was the case again Saturday night when the Athletics used a pair of two-run blasts to beat the Orioles, 6-1.
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