ryan howard
- Andy MacPhail is the new man in charge of the Philadelphia Phillies. The veteran baseball executive, a former Orioles president of baseball operations, joined the Phillies on Monday.
- In four games against the Orioles this week, the Philadelphia Phillies have had just one lead. They made it stand up, though, beating the Orioles 2-1 on a Ryan Howard, sixth-inning home run Thursday that snapped a season-worst nine game losing streak.
- One day after pitching eight shutout innings and striking out nine, Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen was optioned to High-A Frederick before Tuesday's game against the Phillies.
- One run was enough to stand on Monday against a Phillies team that has scored the fewest runs in baseball, as Wei-Yin Chen threw eight scoreless innings in a 4-0 win in front of an announced 23,730 at Camden Yards.
- The Orioles open their two-game interleague series against the Philadelphia Phillies tonight at Camden Yards.
- Orioles manager Buck Showalter said earlier this spring that infielder Everth Cabrera would likely see time in the outfield this spring, and Cabrera will make his first Grapefruit League start this afternoon, starting in center field and leading off against the Philadelphia Phillies at Bright House Field.
- Right-hander Chris Tillman was the last Orioles starting pitcher to make his spring debut, and was sharp in his first Grapefruit League outing on Monday afternoon.
- We are about halfway through the postseason awards season and the Orioles have considerably less hardware than they did last season.
- Adam Jones and Nick Markakis have different personalities, but when the two take the field together -- as they have on most summer days for the past seven seasons -- they become unified partners for one purpose: capturing the Orioles' first World Series title in 31 years.
- SARASOTA, Fla. ¿ Orioles left-hander Zach Britton has put together a solid spring, but his one-inning relief outing on Wednesday afternoon against the Philadelphia Phillies was one to remember.
- Orioles right-hander Ubaldo Jimenez's second spring training start didn't go nearly as well as his first.
- The Orioles roughed up right-hander A.J. Burnett ¿ one of the team¿s top offseason free-agent targets ¿ for six runs on seven hits over three innings on their way to a 14-3 Grapefruit League win over the Philadelphia Phillies.
- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis hit his 53rd homer of the season Friday.
- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis made history on Friday night, tying Brady Anderson for the franchise single-seasn home run record with his eighth-inning solo blast against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis tied Brady Anderson for the franchise home run record with his eighth-inning solo blast on Friday night against the Toronto Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre.
- Calvert Hall and Gilman meet for MIAA A Conference golf title
- Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen allowed seven runs ¿ six earned ¿ in 3 1/3 innings in the Orioles¿ 13-4 loss to the Phillies Saturday afternoon at Ed Smith Stadium.
- So, with the idea, or misconception (depending on who you ask), that the Home Run Derby will ruin a player¿s second half, would you want an Orioles player to compete in it at the risk of hurting their numbers?
- If there was ever an injury that could sorely test the Ravens' stoic "Next Man Up" philosophy, reigning Defensive Player of the Year Terrell Suggs may have suffered it when he damaged his Achilles tendon this week -- reportedly in a pickup basketball game.
- Camden Yards set the bar in 1992, but now it must change to stay with the times
- There's no joy right now in Philadelphia, where Phillies fans have to be wondering just what will go wrong next.
- Potential arbitration hearings are nearing for the Baltimore Orioles. The team has tentative hearings scheduled with Jeremy Guthrie, Adam Jones and Brad Bergesen
- Several top power hitters have struggled after doing well in the home run derby
- The St. Louis Cardinals held it together without Albert Pujols, going 7-7 and scoring 4.2 runs per game.