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Machado "reached out and made that sure we were all right,” Kansas City first baseman Eric Hosmer told The Kansas City Star on Monday.
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The Orioles are nearing a point where they need to think about their future, but show no signs they're thinking about that yet.
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Here's a rundown of who the Orioles could send to the All-Star Game in San Diego, along with their chances of selection, as the Tuesday roster announcement approaches.
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Orioles manager Buck Showalter, Royals manager Ned Yost on the aftermath of Tuesday's fight and the reputations of Manny Machado and Yordano Ventura
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Kansas City Royals right-hander Yordano Ventura on pitch that hit Orioles shortstop Manny Machado, started brawl: 'One got away, and that was that'
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After a long, thrilling victory in Game 1 of the World Series, the Royals got a complete game, two-hitter from Johnny Cueto in a 7-1 Game 2 win.
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Tuesday's night's Game One was not a bad way to start the World Series, even if it did end on Wednesday morning. Here's what they're saying about the Kansas City Royals' 5-4, 14-inning win in a game that seemed to have a little bit of everything.
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In a 14-8 comeback victory over the Royals on Friday night in front of a sellout crowd of 45,420 at Camden Yards, it was as if the Orioles finally released some long-festering frustration on baseball's best bullpen.
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It was interesting how Friday's game played out -- and that no brawls occurred.
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Mike Trout flashed the skill that puts him at the front of baseball's new generation, just moments after four of the all-time greats walked off the field.
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Neither Orioles third baseman Manny Machado nor manager Buck Showalter believe participating in Monday's Home Run Derby will negatively impact Machado's season, or the swing that has produced a career-high 19 home runs.
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The fact that the Orioles and Royals each will send two relief pitchers to Cincinnati next week is emblematic of the outsized role that their bullpens have played in the dramatic resurgence of both franchises. Sure, there have been some pundits grumbling about the presence of setup man Darren O'Day on the AL team, but the best seventh-inning and eighth-inning relievers have been getting more All-Star love in recent years and it's about time.
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After being selected by player vote to play in next Tuesday's All-Star Game in Cincinnati, both Adam Jones and Manny Machado made it clear they were honored to be picked by their peers.
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Manny Machado, Zach Britton, Adam Jones and Darren O'Day were selected to represent O's in next Tuesday's All-Star Game in Cincinnati
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The All-Star Game will have a Kansas City flavor, just not as much as it appeared last month. And the hometown Reds can celebrate a starter, too, despite Cincinnati's sorry season.
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Orioles manager Buck Showalter has been climbing the milestone ladder pretty consistently this year. Following Thursday's loss in Philadelphia, Showalter is still just two wins away from tying Hall of Famer Cap Anson for 32nd all time with 1,295. With the firing of San Diego's Bud Black on Monday, Showalter is now fifth among active managers for longest tenure with their current club.
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Orioles manager Buck Showalter was selected Tuesday night as the Baseball Writers' Association of America's American League Manager of the Year for the third time in his 16-year career, winning the honor in a landslide.
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A day after Dan Duquette won the Sporting News Executive of the Year award, Orioles manager Buck Showalter can win the BBWAA AL Manager of the Year award.
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Buck Showalter is now sixth on the list of longest tenured managers in MLB.
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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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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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With the Orioles' playoff future hanging in the balance, the club could have used just a little more out of the Taiwanese left-hander. And Wei-Yin Chen couldn't deliver in the sixth inning, handing a precarious situation over to rookie Kevin Gausman.
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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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Heavy rain forecast through the night in Kansas City prompted Major League Baseball to postpone American League Championship Series Game 3 between the Orioles and Royals.
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The Kansas City Royals had 13 hits in their 6-4 victory over the Orioles in Game 2 of the American League Championship Series at Camden Yards on Saturday.
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With two passionate fist pumps Saturday evening, Kansas City Royals center fielder Lorenzo Cain punctuated an evening when he swung nearly every big moment in a tense 4-hour, 17-minute game in his team's direction.
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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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Royals manager Ned Yost, who was Orioles designated hitter Nelson Cruz¿ first manager with the Milwaukee Brewers, said the Orioles slugger has surpassed even Yost¿s high expectations for him since their time together in 2005.
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A packed Camden Yards see first ALCS game in 17 years between Orioles and Royals
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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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The Kansas City Royals, much like the Orioles, have long pumped the potential in their minor league system as the major league team struggled. And a lot of those prospects were biding their time in Wilmington, Del., home of the High-A Blue Rocks.
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Orioles manager Buck Showalter has arrived at the American League Championship Series bathed in the affection of both his team and his public, his managerial acumen seemingly above reproach. Kansas City Royals manager Ned Yost has arrived at the same place at the same time, yet his managerial IQ has been questioned so much during this postseason, you¿d think he steered his team into an iceberg.
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Former Mets pitcher Ron Darling will be part of a three-man broadcast booth anchored by play-by-play man Ernie Johnson and former Oriole great Cal Ripken Jr. during the American League Championship Series.
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These are the best of times for Ned Yost, in his fifth season in the Royals¿ dugout. He¿s the first manager to lead the franchise the postseason since Dick Howser and the 1985 World Series championship team.
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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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It's possible that the Kansas City Royals will go into the American League Championship Series against the Orioles with the same 25-man roster, including 11 pitchers, they used to sweep the Los Angeles Angels in the Division Series.
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Despite ranking last in the major leagues in home runs and ninth in the AL in runs scored, the Kansas City Royals' 153 stolen bases in the regular season led the major leagues, and they had an 81 percent success rate. But Orioles catchers are primed to stop them in their tracks.
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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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On Saturday, the Orioles were shut out for the third time this year, thanks to a masterful performance by left-hander Danny Duffy in the Kansas City Royals' 1-0 win.
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Down the Stretch is a daily Orioles Insider blog that will set up the coming night for the O's and their American League competition as the push for the postseason continues.
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Jeremy Guthrie is scheduled to take the mound for the Royals Thursday at Camden Yards and face the Orioles for the first time in his career after spending five seasons in Baltimore.
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Orioles catcher Matt Wieters drove in three runs, including the game-winner with an eighth-inning double that proved to be the difference in a 4-3 win over the Kansas City Royals at Camden Yards.
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Miguel Tejada, who spent five seasons with the Orioles, was back at Camden Yards on Tuesday for the first time as a visitor since 2008 when he was with the Houston Astros.
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By the time the Kansas City Royals left Baltimore with a four-game series split, they had seen enough of a certain 20-year-old rookie infielder.
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Manny Machado whipped Camden Yards into a frenzy by hitting his first two career home runs in the Orioles' 7-1 win over the Kansas City Royals, becoming the youngest Oriole to hit two in a game.
