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As the Orioles' season ended in Kansas City on Wednesday, there was a lot of reflecting on the series and the season in the visiting clubhouse of Kauffman Stadium.
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After the Orioles' season ended Wednesday, Buck Showalter's words were slow and his eyes were glassy when describing the feeling of coming so close to bringing the World Series to Baltimore for the first time in 31 years.
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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.
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With 96 regular-season wins and easily beating the Tigers in division series, getting swept by Royals stings Orioles, fans
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Cycling between hope and dread, Orioles fans watch their magical team collapse in the face of an apparently even more magical ones, the Kansas City Royals who now head to the World Series
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Baltimore Sun columnist Peter Schmuck looks at several key moments from Game 4 of the American League Championship Series.
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Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is one of Kansas City's greatest treasures
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The shirt Jeremy Guthrie wore to his postgame press conference Tuesday sparked outrage from Orioles' fans.
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The Royals haven't lost in the postseason, and they take a 3-0 ALCS lead by doing everying right
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It was windy and cool Tuesday night for Game 3 as the Kansas City Royals handed the Orioles a devastating 2-1 loss to take a 3-0 lead in the American League Championship Series.
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Baltimore Sun columnist Peter Schmuck shares several key moments from Game 3 of the American League Championship Series.
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Unless things change dramatically, there will be a Game 3 of the American League Championship Series at Kauffman Stadium tonight after a rain out Monday.
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Even if the Orioles end up losing to the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship Series this week, there's a sense that the experience itself will help the club going forward -- especially for the younger players who didn't participate in the 2012 postseason.
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The steady rain that postponed Game 3 of the American League Championship Series was just what the doctor ordered for an Orioles team that could use a little celestial intervention to cool off the sizzling Kansas City Royals.
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Major League Baseball teams collect, authenticate and auction to fans — who willingly pay thousands of dollars for them — some very unique items.
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The Orioles will have to wait another day to attempt to cut into the Kansas City Royals' 2-0 lead in the American League Championship Series.
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As he pondered the notion that the Orioles had yet to lead a game as they drifted behind the Royals 2-0 in the American League Championship Series, Baltimore manager Buck Showalter stressed Saturday what it had taken just to tie each game.
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Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen, who will get Monday¿s Game 3 start, said through an interpreter that he¿s not considering the importance of the game or where it might rank in his career.
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The Orioles will attempt an unprecedented climb out of a 2-0 hole as the American League Championship Series shifts to Kauffman Stadium. It won't be easy because the Kansas City Royals are a team brimming with confidence.
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The forecast calls for a 100 percent chance of rain during the day and a 90 percent chance of rain on Monday night in the Kansas City area. If Mother Nature makes it impossible to get the game in, the same scenario will apply that was in play in Baltimore.
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The Orioles head to Kansas City down two games in the American League Championship Series as play shifts to Kauffman Stadium for the next three matchups with the Royals.
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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.
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Although the Kansas City Royals have taken 2-0 lead in ALCS, the Baltimore Orioles insist they can rally
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For the second consecutive evening, it took more than four hours to determine an outcome in the biggest games at Camden Yards in 17 years. And for the second straight night, it ended poorly for the Orioles, who again saw a formidable bullpen crack in a 6-4 loss to the Royals.
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Baltimore Sun reporters, columnists and editors share their immediate reaction to Game 2 of the American League Championship Series between the Orioles and the Kansas City Royals.
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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.
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Kansas City Royals right-hander Jeremy Guthrie will start a postseason game for the first time in his 10-year career when he faces the Orioles, his old team, on Monday night at Kauffman Stadium.
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So long as there's not a pitching emergency Saturday, Wei-Yin Chen will start Monday and Miguel Gonzalez on Tuesday.
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Having spent their entire careers in cavernous Kauffman Stadium and the spacious ballparks of the American League Central, longtime Kansas City Royals Alex Gordon and Billy Butler always have welcomed trips to the comparatively cozy Camden Yards.
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So much for the Kansas City Royals living up to their reputation as a light-hitting, fleet-footed team that manufactured runs with typical Midwest small-ball.
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It all happened in about a week. Orioles left-hander Brian Matusz experienced a gut-punching low of the postseason and then an exhilarating high -- all without throwing a pitch.
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Mike Boddicker has a World Series ring from the Orioles, whom the right-hander helped win it all in 1983. On Friday, however, he'll wear a Kansas City Royals T-shirt to watch the start of the American League Championship Series.
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There are more similarities between the Orioles and their American League Championship Series opponent, the Kansas City Royals, than not -- they both have solid pitching, stellar bullpens and play exemplary defense -- but the way they score runs is completely different.
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As the Orioles and Royals prepare to meet in the ALCS, Kansas City and Baltimore have traveled similar roads as baseball towns.
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Former Orioles pitcher Jeremy Guthrie, now with Royals, looks forward to facing his former team in the American League Championship Series.
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The Orioles open the American League Championship Series on Friday night at Camden Yards against the Kansas City Royals.
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No surprise here. James Shields is expected to start the first game of the American League Championship Series for the Kansas City Royals against the Orioles on Friday at Camden Yards.
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The Orioles will play the Kansas City Royals in the American League Championship Series for a berth in the World Series.
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Despite two rain delays and an uneven but effective performance by starter Chris Tillman, the Orioles had a chance against the Boston Red Sox on Tuesday night. But they turned in their weakest offensive performance of the season in a 1-0 loss.
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Royals left fielder Alex Gordon hit two three-run homers, including one off Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez in the fifth inning, to give Kansas City an 8-6 victory and a split in the four-game series.
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How does this year's squad stack up through 40 games against successful Orioles teams of the past?
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The Orioles are in the exact same place they were when their current four-game losing streak began ¿ atop the American League East standings.
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As promising as the Orioles¿ seven-game road trip to Texas and Kansas City was through their first four games, this was not the way they wanted it to end.
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Just five outs away from gaining a game on the Boston Red Sox and pulling within 2 ½ games of the American League East lead, the Orioles saw their lead quickly disappear into the Kansas City night.
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Reliever Francisco Rodriguez joined the Orioles before Wednesday's game in Kansas City still a little surprised he was suddenly wearing a Baltimore uniform after having been acquired in a trade.
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John Kruk, who will be part of ESPN¿s broadcast of the Home Run Derby, says Orioles first baseman Chris Davis is the favorite "without question" to win the event at Citi Field on Monday night.
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Hate to admit this, but Friday's home opener will be my 34th since getting into the baseball-writing business.
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Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis went right from the disabled list into a slot in the batting order that he had never occupied in 996 previous major league games.
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Halfway through the baseball season, how is it that the Baltimore Orioles are legitimate playoff contenders?
