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- Usually dependable Orioles relievers Brad Brach, Darren O'Day and Mychal Givens have combined for a 5.14 ERA going into Monday night.
- Orioles catcher Chance Sisco threw out three would-be base stealers in his best career game behind the plate as his playing time grows this week.
- Orioles fans wonder why Camden Yards' lineup doesn't include Wi-Fi when nearly every other Major League Baseball ballpark does.
- Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman, constantly searching for a way to unlock some consistency in his fifth major league season, made a tweak the day before Wednesday's start against the Detroit Tigers.
- First pitch, lineups, broadcast info and what to watch in the Orioles' series opener against the Tigers on Tuesday.
- Facing a Red Sox lineup with a lot of lefties, the Orioles recalled Donnie Hart from Triple-A Norfolk.
- First pitch, lineups, broadcast info and what to watch in the Orioles' game Friday at the Red Sox.
- A tumultuous first two weeks that saw the Orioles require 55 innings of relief is through, and they hope the arrival of Alex Cobb and a week of good starts will mean things are settled down.
- Orioles first baseman Chris Davis recorded his first multihit game of the season in Wednesday's win over Toronto.
- Orioles right-hander Kevin Gausman gave the Orioles three straight quality starts as they salvaged the series finale against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- The Orioles are halting Mark Trumbo's rehab assignment after just one game.
- Orioles right-hander Andrew Cashner quickly developed the reputation with the Orioles of someone who will do anything to win. He stuck his foot in front of a 93-mph ground ball to show that Tuesday en route to seven shutout innings against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- After breaking up Aaron Sanchez's no-hit bid in the eighth, the Orioles rallied to tie the game at 1 before Curtis Granderson's home run in the ninth gave Toronto the victory.
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Orioles notes: Rule 5 pick Cortes designated, Ramírez recalled; MRI for Rasmus; Harvey stays in 'pen
The Orioles ended their Rule 5 experiment with left-hander Nestor Cortes Jr., who was designated for assignment one day after he yielded a second grand slam within a week. - Nestor Cortes, one of the Orioles' Rule 5 draft picks, has been designated for assignment, and Yefry Ramirez has joined the bullpen.
- The crowd at Camden Yards — a meager 7,915 — was the smallest in the history of the ballpark, if you don’t count April 29, 2015, when the fans were locked out for a game against the Chicago White Sox in the wake of the Freddie Gray unrest. The previous record low was 9,129.
- Reliever Nestor Cortes Jr. gave up his second grand slam this week in the Orioles' 7-1 loss to the Blue Jays.
- Dylan Bundy recorded his third quality start in a row to open the season in the Orioles' 7-1 loss to the Blue Jays.
- The Orioles had an all-time Camden Yards low with an announced crowd of 7,915 on Monday night.
- Adam Jones was called out for running inside the baseline on a play that would have given the Orioles the lead in the sixth inning of Monday night's series opener against the Toronto Blue Jays.
- First pitch, lineups, broadcast info, pitching matchups and what to watch against the Blue Jays on Monday.
- A 23-year-old St. Petersburg, Fla., resident has gathered more than 8,600 followers on Twitter with an account he made last week on a whim, @SmilingBirdLogo, where he posts his mockups of the Baltimore team’s cartoon bird logo, redesigned as other bird species.
- A year ago Saturday, amid a flurry of early-season pitching moves where the Orioles lost Parker Bridwell and shuffled the back end of their roster, executive vice president Dan Duquette acquired right-hander Miguel Castro from the Colorado Rockies.
- Any success for the Orioles hinges on whether their one-trick offense can solve the game’s growing trend of pitching backward and adapt its free-swinging approach to a style of pitching meant to exploit it.
- Former Orioles outfielder Travis Snider is getting a new opportunity in the independent Atlantic League.
- Chris Davis sat Wednesday after starting the season 1-for-20 in his first five games while hitting from the leadoff spot.
- Miguel Castro could still eventually start, but right now he's too valuable to the Orioles' quickly taxed bullpen.
- All signed point to Alex Cobb making his first Orioles start at home on Monday against Toronto
- In an effort to add more left-handed hitting depth, the Orioles inked veteran outfielder Michael Saunders on a minor league deal. He will report to Triple-A Norfolk to open the season.
- Eric Davis, Dave McNally and Joe Gans were on the sports pages this time of year.
- An Opening Day that seemed scripted for disaster Thursday at Camden Yards ended with the longest-tenured Oriole — center fielder Adam Jones — the hero.
- Sure, the Orioles won, 3-2, in 11 innings on a walk-off homer, just as they did in last year's season opener. But Thursday's victory flipped the script.
- Jeremy Hellickson fails to stick with the Nationals. Wade Miley receives a retention bonus from the Brewers, and Edwin Jackson gets one from Washington.
- Trying to make a final impression, Nestor Cortes Jr. and Miguel Castro each contribute three solid innings in the Orioles' 6-5 win over the Philadelphia Phillies to wrap up Grapefruit League play.
- Perhaps it was inevitable that the Yankees and Red Sox would re-establish dominance over the rest of the American League East at some point, after the Orioles, Blue Jays and Rays each experienced a rise in recent years.
- Season previews of the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays.
- Orioles right-hander Alex Cobb's schedule is plotted out, and he could make his first Orioles regular-season start at home on April 9.
- Looking back at and catching up with the 1983 Orioles, who won the team's most recent World Series, over the Phillies in five games.
- A deeper look into what a good season and a bad season would look like for each starting pitcher who could contribute to the Orioles rotation this year.
- Orioles left-hander Tanner Scott, the organization's No. 6 prospect, is being used as a traditional reliever so far in spring training with short outings, but will still work on a shortened starter's schedule at Triple-A Norfolk when the season begins.
- Orioles right-hander Mike Wright Jr. struggled to finish off his outing and allowed four runs on nine hits in Saturday's game against the Toronto Blue Jays, and acknowledged it did more harm than good to his case to make the Opening Day roster.
- Orioles left-hander Josh Edgin, pitching against the New York Mets on Friday, made his best case for a roster spot with a scoreless inning to give him four clean innings in five appearances.
- Entering what will be his second-to-last spring start of the spring, right-hander Mike Wright Jr. has made a strong case for the Orioles starting rotation.
- Rule 5 pick Nestor Cortes Jr. rebounded from a bad outing with a strong performance against his former team, the New York Yankees, on Wednesday.
- Orioles slugger Mark Trumbo returned for just one game after missing a week with a quad problem before the soreness returned, requiring an MRI on Thursday.
- Pedro Araujo might be the least heralded of the Orioles' three 2017 Rule 5 draft picks, but he also might be the one most likely to make the Opening Day roster.
- Chris Tillman will start against the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, which is significant because it means he won't start against them during the opening series of the regular season.
- Orioles right-hander Miguel Castro made his first Grapefruit League audition for a rotation spot in Dunedin, the last place his career made any sense.
- Gabriel Ynoa got some iffy MRI results and will not pitch against the Pirates on Saturday. Jayson Aquino will start in his place.
- Orioles Rule 5 pick Nestor Cortes Jr. didn't have his best command Thursday against the Toronto Blue Jays, and ended up enduring a difficult afternoon because of it.