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- Trea Turner hit two homers, including his first career grand slam, and drove in eight runs to help the Washington Nationals rally from a nine-run deficit and defeat the Miami Marlins and end a five-game losing streak.
- Digest: Wieters breaks tie in 8th with grand slam in Nationals' 9-4 win over Cubs
- Jonathan Schoop appeared in his first All-Star Game
- Under Armour has All-Stars Aaron Judge, Cody Bellinger in its camp
- Aaron Judge, Carlos Correa and Nolan Arenado led a new generation of All-Stars, among 12 first-time starters elected by fans for the July 11 game.
- Orioles notes: Chris Davis gets first start at third since 2014 with Manny Machado out
- The Washington Nationals made a significant addition to their bench by agreeing to terms with power-hitting lefty Adam Lind.
- All seven members of Washington Nationals manager Dusty Baker's major league coaching staff will return to the team for the 2017 season, the team announced on Twitter.
- Dusty Baker was officially introduced as the new manager of the Washington Nationals on Thursday morning. He said this will be his final managerial job and he's looking to check off the final box on his bucket list -- a world title as manager.
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- American Pharoah was made the overwhelming 1-5 favorite in a 10-horse field and drew the No. 2 post on Tuesday night.
- Former Westminster baseball standout Trevor Houck played summer ball in North Carolina. His strong performance gave him more confidence heading into his junior year at Lafayette College (Pa.)
- Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth will undergo surgery on the acromioclavicular joint in his right shoulder on Friday and will require two to three months of rehabilitation, which could put the veteran's availability for Opening Day in jeopardy.
- Laurin Mincy leads the ninth-ranked Maryland women's basketball team past George Washington, 75-65, at the Smith Center in Washington.
- For the second time in three games against the Washington Nationals, Orioles manager Buck Showalter chose to intentionally walk slumping Nats outfielder Bryce Harper to take his chances against the rest of Washington¿s batting order.
- The Orioles (50-41) have reached the 50-win mark in their 91st game, the earliest since their wire-to-wire division-winning season of 1997.
- With the DH back, Steve Pearce is again in the lineup
- Washington Nationals manager Matt Williams has seen Buck Showalter make bold late-game decisions before.
- Chris Davis became the first Oriole to hit three home runs on the road since Cal Ripken Jr. in 1996
- The Orioles' Chris Tillman is 0-1 with a 4.82 ERA In seven career starts against National League opponents.
- We will find out tonight which Orioles win Gold Gloves.
- Sometimes, Randy Knorr sits in his room, all alone, and
- Manny Machado has 18 Web Gems according to ESPN.
- Orioles center fielder Adam Jones, who has been involved in various charity initiatives in Baltimore and his hometown of San Diego, Calif., has been named the club¿s nominee for this year's Roberto Clemente Award.
- With Major League Baseball's trade deadline Wednesday at 4 p.m., Washington Nationals general manager Mike Rizzo does not see the next two days as an opportunity to blow up a struggling team or a chance to spark a late-season push.
- Orioles manager Buck Showalter said there is a simple key to competing with the slugging teams of the American League, clubs that seemingly can score at will: Play excellent defense.
- A plaque honoring Matt Wieters for a home run onto Eutaw Street misspells the Orioles catcher's name.
- Through the first two months of the Orioles' season, second baseman Ryan Flaherty's reputation hinged much more on his glove than his bat.
- Major league sluggers, when they¿re locked in, can make the game look effortless. And they tend to keep their game-face firmly in place as they trot around the bases after even the most titanic home runs. But nobody does nonchalance like Chris Davis.
- The Orioles exploded in a six-run seventh inning that featured two-run homers by Steve Pearce and Chris Davis.
- Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman made history on Wednesday night, becoming the first National League player to hit three or more homers at Camden Yards.
- Jason Hammel tied a season high for the club with eight strong innings and the Orioles beat the Washington Nationals, 6-2, before a sold-out (and bi-partisan) announced crowd of 41,260 at Nationals Park.
- Orioles right fielder Nick Markakis is batting .341 as the No. 1 hitter in the lineup, and he's enjoying the extra at-bats -- and extra fastballs -- he's seen in that new role.
- The monster inning, the one that has haunted Jake Arrieta for much of this season, lurked on Sunday afternoon. But the Orioles pitcher survived the trouble and may have turned a corner mentally three starts after his brief demotion tot he bullpen.
- With the Orioles' offense struggling to produce runs, Jason Hammel again took his team on his shoulders by delivering a masterful start against a Washington Nationals team that owns the second-best record in the NL.