The Orioles completed a three-game sweep of the Pirates with a resounding 12-6 victory, pounding Pirates pitching for 10 runs in the first four innings. The trio of Matt Wieters, Mark Reynolds, and Steve Pearce combined to collect 10 hits and drive in all 12 O’s runs, and the Birds pulled a half-game back of [...]
The Pirates came into Baltimore winners of five straight series. Regardless of what happens in tonight’s game, they will leave Baltimore the losers of one straight series. That’s good. A sweep by the Orioles would be better, and they’ll be looking to do just that tonight. Of course, the O’s are looking to win every [...]
Norfolk is 4-6 in their last 10 and a game out of last place. Xavier Avery continues to struggle since his demotion, OPSing 510 over his last 10 (in fairness a K/BB of 9/7 in 38 ABs, so not all bad). For the season, his slash line is 253/355/396/751. AAA is proving to be a [...]
At sunrise on a fourteenth of June there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in orange-colors, at the water-side in the city of Baltimore. Jake Arrieta was back! Or maybe it was that during his faux-banishment to the bullpen he had mastered some kind of zen koan, and something clicked. [...]
Five days ago, Jake Arrieta wasn’t good enough to be in the starting rotation any more. He was sent to the bullpen, but never actually made an appearance in a game, so when the fluke – or as MASN analyst Mike Bordick kept calling it “tragic bunting accident” – occurred to keep Brian Matusz from [...]
The last time Jake Arrieta started a game for the Orioles, he was so bad – and had been so consistently bad over his starts this season – that after that game, in which he gave up nine earned runs in four innings of work, he was demoted to the bullpen. That was five days [...]
Over the first month and a half of the season, the starting pitching of the Orioles was the biggest thing propelling them into their run at the top of the American League East. At one point in the season, there was a statistic that the O’s had a record of 21-1 when their starting pitcher [...]
