r a dickey
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Of the 35 pitchers the Orioles will bring to big league camp, only nine have ever made a major league start.
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The Orioles more often than not wait until later in the offseason to sign free-agent pitchers, but there has been plenty of value in November recently, too.
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It's too early for the Orioles to breathe a sigh of relief after Yovani Gallardo delivered a very solid five innings in his first start back in the rotation.
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First pitch, broadcast info, starting pitchers and what to watch in the Orioles' game against the Blue Jays.
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Before the Orioles faced Red Sox knuckleballer Steven Wright on Monday afternoon, manager Buck Showalter likened hitting baseball's most unpredictable pitch to "swatting a butterfly with a needle."
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There's no doubt the Orioles lineup has big-inning potential, and there was no greater example of that than Friday's nine-run seventh inning in Texas. Aside from that inning, the Orioles have been unable to manufacture any sort of sustainable offense since their 7-0 start to the season, which is a troubling sign.
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First pitch, broadcast info, starting pitchers and what to watch in the Orioles' game against the Blue Jays.
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The Orioles¿ game against the Toronto Blue Jays on Tuesday has been postponed due to inclement weather and will be made up as part of a single-admission doubleheader beginning at 4:05 p.m. at Camden Yards.
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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.
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Even though Eddie Gamboa struggled in his short time in big league camp this spring, Orioles manager Buck Showalter believes he's further along in the his transformation into a knuckleballer than former Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey was at the same time.
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Orioles manager Buck Showalter wants to see his collective group of starters in action today for the team's final regular-season game and last action before Game 1 of the American League Division Series on Thursday.
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Right-hander Miguel Gonzalez will likely start the Orioles' regular-season finale in Toronto on Sunday.
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The Orioles struggled mightily against Toronto Blue Jays right-hander Drew Hutchison, managing only one hit in a 5-1 loss Wednesday night in front of an announced 33,054 at the Rogers Centre.
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Counting Saturday afternoon's 3-2 victory against the Toronto Blue Jays, the Orioles have registered six consecutive quality starts, padding their season high. That's a huge turnaround for a rotation that entered the week with the fourth-worst ERA in the AL.
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Miguel Gonzalez and Kevin Gausman are expected to start in Tampa.
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The overused Orioles bullpen -- asked to do so much over the first five games of this road trip -- gave up a pair of three-run homers in the eighth inning in a 9-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays.
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If you just look at the 9-3 final score from the Orioles' loss Tuesday night in Toronto, you'd never know that the club is riding a strange wave of reversible momentum.
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The Blue Jays traded for R.A. Dickey ahead of the 2013 season for the knuckleballer to anchor their rebuilt rotation, but he hasn't found much success against his division rival from Baltimore.
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The Orioles were well represented Friday when finalists for this season's AL Gold Glove awards were named.
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Eddie Gamboa, the Orioles knuckleballer who tossed a no-hitter June 30 with Bowie, makes his first start for Triple-A Norfolk on Wednesday.
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For much of the season, Orioles second baseman Ryan Flaherty struggled at the plate. But now, as Brian Roberts is on the verge of being activated from the disabled list to take over starting second-base duties, Flaherty has found his comfort zone at the plate.
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Pedro Strop gave up the game-winning hit to Toronto. Orioles manager Buck Showalter was ejected in the second inning.
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That¿s when Showalter teed off on home plate umpire Angel Hernandez on a curious call in the second inning of the Orioles 7-6 loss to the Blue Jays.
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TORONTO -- Orioles manager Buck Showalter was ejected from Friday night¿s game against the Blue Jays in the second inning after a heated argument with home plate umpire Angel Hernandez.
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Anchored by eight scoreless innings from 36-year-old Freddy Garcia, the Orioles beat the Nationals 2-0 in front of an announced 30,655 at Camden Yards.
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For the second time within an 18-hour span, the Orioles bats jumped on a Toronto starter early.
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Orioles right-hander Jake Arrieta, who hasn't pitched in 16 days, was optioned to Triple-A Norfolk before Thursday's game to make space on the 25-man roster for starter Kevin Gausman.
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In today's Baltimore Sun, I wrote a story on the Orioles' efforts to convert minor-league pitchers Zach Clark and Eddie Gamboa. Both are working under the tutelage of Hall of Fame knuckleballer Phil Niekro, who won 318 games and revolutionized the knuckleball, at Double-A Bowie.
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The Orioles are hoping Zach Clark and Eddie Gamboa can take their careers to the next level by learning from Phil Niekro and mastering the knuckleball.
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The Orioles were 7-4 on this last road trip; 6-5 would have been a success.
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Zach Clark will join the Bowie Baysox and work on his knuckleball with Phil Niekro.
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A look at a main storyline for each of the Orioles' opponents in the AL East, as well as a look at who's hot and who's not on each club.
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Each Wednesday, Baltimore Sun blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Baltimore Orioles.
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The Orioles battered reigning National League Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey at Camden Yards in their first meeting against him as a member of the bolstered Toronto Blue Jays.
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The Orioles managed just five hits — all singles — against Yankees right-hander Hiroki Kuroda, who recorded the first complete-game shutout against Baltimore since the Mets' R.A. Dickey did it last June.
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Orioles, Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and Blue Jays all feel they can win American League East in 2013.
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Jonathan Schoop and Pedro Strop had great days representing the Orioles at the World Baseball Classic
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Here's another subplot in the build-up to what could be a free-for-all in the AL East this summer: Almost every team in the division can play the nobody-believed-in-us card.
