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Triple-A: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (Marlins) 7, Norfolk Tides 1 – F/11 It was a brutal day for the Norfolk offense. They did walk six times, but they also only had three hits, struck out 17 times, and went 0-for-10 with runners in scoring position. The only run they did manage to scratch across came in […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. Turns out there are no problems with the Orioles that a series against the Chicago White Sox couldn’t fix. The O’s took full advantage of their matchup against the perennial worst team in the American League, completing a three-game sweep with yesterday afternoon’s 5-3 win. In typical Orioles fashion, the club […]
The news on Zach Eflin’s injury came back on Wednesday evening and it was as bad as you could have guessed from the get-go. The Orioles announced that Eflin had Tommy John surgery to repair the torn ulnar collateral ligament in his pitching elbow on Wednesday. The only surprising thing about the announcement is that […]
Every baseball game has a story. That’s what makes the game so great. Here were some of the narratives working their way through my head as we entered today’s Orioles-White Sox contest: Will the Orioles get back to .500 and keep pace in the AL East? Will the offense find itself against a bad Chicago […]
It is Kyle Bradish day for the Orioles, and hopefully that is a good thing. Prior to the start of this season, you’d have bet for sure that it was, as the one-time Top 5 Cy Young Award finisher has been a dark wizard on the mound, even after missing time for Tommy John surgery. […]
I traded my Easter ham for a hot dog last weekend to watch the Orioles take on the Pirates at PNC Park. On paper, it felt like dealing Erik Bedard for Adam Jones and a quartet of pitchers. It’s not like I was skipping Thanksgiving dinner, and it’s always a thrill to catch a game […]
Triple-A: Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp 6, Norfolk Tides 2 The Tides jumped out to an early 2-0 lead, but their bats quickly fell silent as the Jumbo Shrimp earned a come-from-behind victory. With two outs in the bottom of the 1st, Johnathan Rodríguez worked an eight-pitch walk to give Norfolk their first base-runner of the afternoon. […]
Good morning Birdland, It’s amazing what a couple of wins can do for your team outlook. Coming into this White Sox series, it already felt like the Orioles’ season was on life support. Now, they have won two in a row, could wrap up a sweep today, get back to .500, and then head home […]
Two in a row. Write it down somewhere. Frame it, even! The 2026 Orioles, playing a 3:10 afternoon matinee in the cold because apparently, temperate weather is too much to ask of Chicago even in late April, have won consecutive games for the first time this season. They did so courtesy of a 4-2 Tuesday […]
No one who is directly involved was interested in there being a baseball game in the cold Chicago night this evening, so here we are for a 3:10 Eastern start time instead of what would have been 7:40. Everyone else must bear the mild inconvenience of a baseball game starting four and a half hours […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Orioles fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. Last year’s Orioles team never had a .500 or better record after being 3-3 through six games. […]
If you’re a fan of top-quality, crisply played baseball, then…well, Delmarva isn’t the place for you. It’s nothing personal, Shorebirds. But the Orioles’ Low-A affiliate is very much a working-out-the-kinks step on the organizational ladder. For most of the season the roster consists of very young, very raw players, often those who spent the previous […]
If we’re all being honest, a 4-6 to 2026 feels like a slap in the face after an offseason full of improvement and renewed promise. This team came into the season with plenty of hope and goodwill, only for that to quickly turn to angst and a foreboding “here we go again” among much of […]
The four Orioles full-season minor league affiliates are all in action as of Friday. The play of the major league team through the first couple of weeks of the MLB season might end up having everyone far more focused on the farm than we wanted to be this season. Whether the big league club improves […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. Is it dramatic to suggest that last night’s Orioles game against the White Sox was a must-win? Probably. But if the O’s had followed up an ugly sweep in Pittsburgh by losing to the two-time reigning worst team in the American League, even the most level-headed fans among us might have […]
After losing three games in a row over the weekend, the Orioles needed a win. And a win is what they got, even if it was a little too close for comfort. The offense was sluggish, this time against a team with a 6.19 ERA so far this year. Ryan Helsley struggled in the ninth […]
We all agree that the Orioles 3-6 start to the season is disappointing. But can we also talk about how it has been extremely weird? When Dean Kremer was optioned to the minors to start the season, common sense said that he’d be the next starter up. Then Zach Eflin got hurt, and the Orioles […]
In last week’s episode of the podcast, I remarked on the new Orioles slogan for 2026, fly different, and how important it is that the O’s actually do things differently compared to last season. Since then, they’ve gone 1-5 and things are feeling all too familiar from what we’ve now been seeing since around the […]
The first few series of this season were supposed to be the easy ones for the Orioles. They had a better 2025 record than each of their first three opponents and they don’t play a team that was better than .500 a year ago until they meet the Guardians on April 16. Three series into […]
Sometimes, the old becomes new again. So it is with the Frederick Keys, who served as the High-A affiliate of the Orioles through the 2019 season. They were squeezed out for a few years after MLB decided to reduce the number of minor leagues, with the High-A affiliate transferring to Aberdeen instead. Now, Aberdeen is […]
It’s only been nine games, but the 2026 Orioles are looking a lot like the 2025 Orioles. That’s the team that struggled so badly in April and May that their manager was fired, they eventually had to sell at the deadline, and the GM seemingly took a new approach to team-building over the offseason. While […]
Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 9, Memphis Redbirds 1 (Game 1) The Tides played two on Sunday after Saturday’s schedule game was rained out. Game One was a good one. Levi Wells won his second start of the season with five one-run, four-hit innings. Wells allowed a run to St. Louis’s Triple-A affiliate on a two-out rally […]
Happy Monday, Camden Chatters! It was not a happy weekend for the Orioles, who limped out of Pittsburgh after being swept. That was after losing two out of three to the Rangers, making them losers of five of their last six. It’s not really how any of us imagined the season starting. Yesterday’s game was […]
If someone could kindly inform the Orioles that the 2026 season began a couple of weeks ago, I’d greatly appreciate it. The O’s continued to stumble out of the gate in the new season, putting themselves hopelessly behind after two innings en route to an 8-2 loss and a series sweep by the Pirates. Chris […]
The vibes in Birdland right now are…not great. It’s only been eight games, but so far the Orioles look discouragingly similar to the flawed, frustrating team of 2025 that was out of contention by Memorial Day. Their starting pitching has underwhelmed and has already lost a key member, likely for the season. Their offense has […]