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Jack Gibbons
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Baltimore Baseball
22m
BaltimoreBaseball.com publisher Steve Cockey covered the Orioles’ first intrasquad game on Wednesday night at Camden Yards, and we asked him what the experience was like. Question: Were you tested when you came into the stadium? Answer: I wasn’t...
Baltimore Orioles
... blance of a baseball game again. Q: What were you overall impressions of the Orioles and how they’re handling this situation? A: I was impressed with how the Ori ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
6h
The Orioles hope that their bullpen will be improved in 2020. Last season, their bullpen had an awful 5.79 ERA. During spring training, manager Brandon Hyde said he liked the additional choices he had as relievers. One pitcher that Hyde hopes to see...
Baltimore Orioles
... pen even more. With the 13-man staff limit on the initial 26-man roster, the Orioles could have carried eight relievers. Harvey, Shawn Armstrong, Richard Bleier, ...
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Steve Cockey
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Baltimore Baseball
14h
After months of delays from the COVID-19 pandemic, it finally happened Wednesday night: Baseball was played under the lights at Camden Yards. The Orioles played a five-inning intrasquad game that didn’t include a full lineup on either side. The “home”
Baltimore Orioles
... d Wednesday night: Baseball was played under the lights at Camden Yards. The Orioles played a five-inning intrasquad game that didn’t include a full lineup on ei ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
8 Jul
After five days of replicating spring training workouts, the Orioles’ summer training goes under the lights on Wednesday night. The Orioles will play the first in a series of intrasquad games at Camden Yards. Tommy Milone and Thomas Eshelman will be...
Baltimore Orioles
... lders on the roster, Stewart has an opportunity to begin the season with the Orioles. Because of the surgery, it was likely Stewart would have begun the 2020 sea ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
7 Jul
Five days into the Orioles’ summer camp, the team hasn’t announced if any of its players have tested positive for the coronavirus. When Major League Baseball announced initial results on July 3, it said that 19 teams had a player or staff member...
Baltimore Orioles
... dictable circumstance.” Elias is pleased with the protocols that MLB and the Orioles have put in place. “After getting in here and seeing this, I was kind of wow ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
7 Jul
The new world of Major League Baseball’s testing and precaution to stem the spread of the coronavirus takes some getting used to. Austin Hays, who’s expected to be the Orioles’ centerfielder for the 60-game schedule that starts July 24th, is...
Baltimore Orioles
... s second nature to follow the protocols.” Hyde cites need for communication: Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said that adhering to the protocols have been time-cons ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
6 Jul
Nearly four months later than they were scheduled to begin the 2020 season, the Orioles will play the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park on Friday night July 24 at 7:30 p.m. It’s the first time the Orioles play at Boston to open the season since 1966....
Baltimore Orioles
... osting them a week later on August 14-19. In other interleague matchups, the Orioles host the Marlins on July 29-30 and Atlanta on September 14-16. The Philadelp ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
6 Jul
The Orioles are going to miss Trey Mancini this season. Mancini, who underwent colon cancer surgery on March 12, the day that spring training ended, will miss 2020 while undergoing chemotherapy. Manager Brandon Hyde, who was wearing a “#F16HT” T-shirt
Baltimore Orioles
... er, was not included on the summer training roster but could be added to the Orioles’ alternate site, which is expected to be in Bowie. Cedric Mullins also wasn’ ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
5 Jul
Manager Brandon Hyde hasn’t decided on the Orioles’ starting staff when the 60-game season opens on July 24. He said that a five-man staff, a six-man staff, piggybacking starters and possibly using an opener are considerations. “We’ve put some...
Baltimore Orioles
... EMENT “Weird, definitely, but at the end of the day, it’s no different,” the Orioles’ third baseman said. “A guy’s on the mound, trying to throw his best stuff a ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
4 Jul
Three Washington Nationals — first baseman Ryan Zimmerman, pitcher Joe Ross and former Orioles catcher Welington Castillo — opted out of the 2020 season because of the coronavirus pandemic. So far, none of the Orioles have, including first baseman...
Baltimore Orioles
... e paying attention to what was going on.” Davis said he was proud of how the Orioles players stayed united. ADVERTISEMENT “We’re such a young clubhouse,” Davis s ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
3 Jul
For Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, it was a strange feeling. After not seeing his team on the field since March 11, when the Orioles played the Toronto Blue Jays in Dunedin, Florida, he had most of his team on the field Friday at Oriole Park. It was...
Baltimore Orioles
... as well as the players and coaches.” ADVERTISEMENT Three weeks from now, the Orioles will begin the truncated season. First there will be some intrasquad games a ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
3 Jul
After two days of reporting and Covid-19 testing, the Orioles’ summer training begins in earnest on Friday. Unlike spring training, the Orioles’ schedule for the abbreviated 60-game schedule isn’t known. Nor is the exhibition game schedule, presumed...
Baltimore Orioles
... rstad, because he said he doesn’t want to take a spot away from a player the Orioles might need during the 60-game season. Some or perhaps all of those prospects ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
2 Jul
In his three seasons with the Orioles, left-hander Richard Bleier is 8-1 with a 3.21 ERA. Last season, Bleier who was recovering from June 2018 lat surgery, had a strong September with a 2.93 ERA and two saves in 12 appearances with a 0.717 WHIP....
Baltimore Orioles
... saves in 12 appearances with a 0.717 WHIP. He spoke after reporting to the Orioles’ summer training on Wednesday. Players will be tested for Covid-19 before wo ...
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Rich Dubroff
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Baltimore Baseball
1 Jul
In this most complicated of years, one decision was easy for Heston Kjerstad. As soon as the Orioles drafted him with the second pick of June’s draft, he knew there wasn’t a chance that he’d return to the University of Arkansas for his senior season.
Baltimore Orioles
... add Kjerstad to the 60-man player pool, which currently has 16 openings. The Orioles feel they’ll need many of those players in the major leagues and don’t want ...
