– Orioles manager Brandon Hyde could not have been thrilled to see the Cardinals steal four bases last night in their series-opening 6-3 win. The four steals matched a St. Louis season best done one time before. The four allowed is an O’s season high, now done three times, once each by Washington, Kansas City and…
BALTIMORE – Baltimore Orioles shortstop Gunnar Henderson has quickly become one of the most dangerous leadoff hitters in his second full season in the big leagues. He proved again on Sunday that he’s the engine that gets the offense started. Henderson, the 22-year-old Alabama native, hit his fifth leadoff home run of the season in the Orioles’…
The decibel level rose at each turn around the bases, first from Jorge Mateo and then Gunnar Henderson. The pair of them, in a neck-and-neck race only Statcast’s advanced sensors (and one fascinated sportswriter) was tracking, slid into third base only two minutes apart. The Orioles added on in the seventh inning of a 9-2…
Count me in as a guy who wants to someday have a beer with Baltimore Orioles’ star Gunnar Henderson at his house. As a fan of collecting memorabilia, trinkets, action figures, whatever, I can appreciate what Henderson is doing: Working to develop the coolest man cave on the planet. According to a great story in the Baltimore…
BALTIMORE — Highly touted prospect Jackson Holliday has been optioned to the minor leagues by the Orioles after starting his big league career with a disappointing thud. Holliday, 20, was promoted from Triple-A Norfolk on April 10 amid plenty of fanfare, but the second baseman managed only two hits — both singles — and two walks in 36 plate…
BALTIMORE — — Cole Irvin pitched into the sixth inning in another effective start, and a reshuffled bullpen held on for the Baltimore Orioles in a 4-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks on Friday night. Struggling reliever Craig Kimbrel was taken out of the closer’s role for this game, but he worked a perfect seventh inning. Jacob Webb retired two batters in the eighth, but…
BALTIMORE — Corbin Burnes didn’t think it was a homer at first. It barely was. With two outs in the fifth inning on Wednesday night, the Orioles’ ace faced Yankees third baseman Oswaldo Cabrera and gave up a hard-hit ball (an exit velocity of 103.3 mph, per Statcast) that had a low launch angle (21 degrees) before…
The Orioles have a pitching staff problem. Perhaps that should be more focused: The Orioles have a bullpen problem. Or maybe even more zoomed in still: The Orioles have a Craig Kimbrel problem. The closer returned to the mound on Sunday afternoon looking to put the memory of Friday’s disaster behind him and all of…
It’s never easy when a star player gets injured and the Baltimore Orioles were dealt that dose of reality when their star closer, Felix Bautista, went down with an elbow injury. The 28-year-old was putting together one of the best relief performances in MLB history when his season abruptly ended. He was 8-2 with a 1.48 ERA…
In a stunning turn of events, Jackson Holliday the promising star pitcher for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars, has been suspended from the team indefinitely due to a violation of league regulations. The exact nature of Imanaga’s transgression has not been disclosed by the team or the league officials, but sources close to the situation…