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You would be hard-pressed to find a more relaxing night of baseball as an Orioles fan than the team’s smooth 6-1 win over the Royals on Saturday night. Kyle Bradish twirled a gem, taking a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and the lineup pounded four home runs in support. Bradish put together one of his […]
Deep breath. We have two more games until the break. We can do this! Noah Cameron was a huge delight for Royals fans last year. He got off to a pretty rocky start this year, had about a month where he looked like he might be even better than last season, but has now had […]
The Orioles focus for much of today is on the future. They made a few draft picks, including seventh overall pick Eric Booth Jr., a high school outfielder from Mississippi. Hopefully a few of the youngsters they call on this weekend will turn into quality Orioles a few years from now. The 2026 Orioles, however, […]
Orioles closer Ryan Helsley and his sore elbow appear to be back to square one — and that’s the good news. Manager Craig Albernaz said before Saturday night’s game against the Kansas City Royals that Helsley, who is on the injured list retroactive to June 30th, continues to experience elbow inflammation but apparently does not […]
With their second round pick in the 2026 draft, the Orioles chose outfielder Ty Head from North Carolina State. That follows on the heels of their first round pick going to a high school outfielder, Eric Booth Jr. On MLB’s draft telecast after the pick, the analysts offered praise for Head as a player, describing […]
First HS top pick by the club since Jackson Holliday in 2022
The Orioles have kicked off their 2026 draft class by choosing a talented high school outfielder, Eric Booth Jr. from Mississippi. The lefty-batting Vanderbilt commit is almost certainly not going to go to college now. This was one of the top five or six players in the draft class and the Orioles got him at […]
The Orioles on Saturday selected Mississippi high school outfielder Eric Booth Jr. with the seventh overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft. It’s the first time the Orioles have picked a high school player with the first pick since Jackson Holliday, who was chosen first overall in 2022. The 18-year-old Booth attended Oak Grove […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across the 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. Now 95 games into their season, the 2026 Orioles are still mostly sputtering. They haven’t been able to […]
Triple-A: Syracuse (Mets) 3, Norfolk Tides 2 – 7 innings The Tides out-hit the Chiefs in this one by an 8-4 margin and still lost the game. You might be tempted to think that means that Syracuse got clutch hits with RISP and Norfolk didn’t, but you would be wrong: Syracuse was 0-6 with RISP. […]
Good morning, Camden Chatters. Even in a season that isn’t going according to plan, an immutable fact remains: life seems a little bit better after an Orioles win. That’s especially true when the O’s make it a dramatic win, like last night’s 5-3 takedown of the visiting Royals at Camden Yards. After Brandon Young’s bid […]
BALTIMORE–What happened? Samuel Basallo waited for several seconds at home plate, hoping his drive to right field would stay fair. It stayed fair, and it put the Orioles in front and the fans in a frenzy. Basallo’s two-run home run, his 15th, scored Pete Alonso in the eighth inning and carried the Orioles to an […]
Sometimes, one small play in a game ends up ruining it. When Adley Rutschman didn’t challenge a pitch in the eighth inning that was called a ball, I thought that was the small ruining play. The batter went on to homer. The game was tied, and I assumed the Orioles would soon fall behind. But […]
The Royals fell 5-3 after another very Luinder Avila start and one too many trips to the bullpen. Matt Strahm gave up the final blow, a two-run home run to Samuel Basallo. Before that, it was a pretty close game. As noted above, Luinder Avila got the start in this one for KC. He pitched […]
It is Friday night. The Orioles have beaten the Royals, 5-3. Brandon Young turned in an excellent seven-plus inning start, and after he left with the game tied, Samuel Basallo delivered an absolutely joyous and righteous go-ahead home run to put the Orioles on top. Bring this energy into all of your most important tasks: […]
The O's took two of three versus the Royals in April
The Orioles and Royals are both bad. Remember when they were both good? Those were the days. Well, until the playoffs came anyway. But let’s talk about something else. Brandon Young is pitching for the Orioles tonight, AKA the Orioles ace. His last start against the Reds wasn’t great, but everyone’s allowed to have a […]
BALTIMORE—Orioles manager Craig Albernaz is looking forward to this weekend’s amateur draft. “It’s an exciting time of the year,” said Albernaz, who wasn’t drafted. “It’s going to be a life-changing moment for a lot of players … The major league draft is such a crapshoot. You don’t know who’s going to pan out, so it’s […]
Welcome to SB Nation Reacts, a survey of fans across MLB. Throughout the year we ask questions of the most plugged-in Cubs fans and fans across the country. Sign up here to participate in the weekly emailed surveys. As we saw in Thursday’s 3-2 Cubs loss to the Orioles, the team desperately needs help in the bullpen […]
This year’s edition of the MLB Draft begins tomorrow at 1pm with the White Sox on the clock. The Orioles, after their disappointing season, ended up with a little bit of bad luck when the draft lottery played out and received the #7 pick in the draft for their trouble. They had the fourth-best odds […]
While few analysts would have told you that either the Orioles or Royals came into the season as true World Series contenders, there was a consensus that they would at least be competitive squads that factored into the playoff race. With the unofficial halfway point of the season nearly here, predictions like those only get […]
About a week ago, Sports Illustrated’s Jason La Canfora went looking for evidence to back up a hunch that’s been circulating in Baltimore for three straight seasons now: this team can’t run the bases. His July 1 piece on the Orioles’ fielding and baserunning woes laid out a bunch of metrics, and the picture wasn’t […]
Triple-A: Norfolk Tides 5, Syracuse Mets 4 — F/10 Norfolk let a two-run lead slip away but walked it off in the bottom of the tenth. Josh Walker kept the Mets off the board in the top of the frame, and Luis Vázquez drove in the automatic runner with a single to right field. José […]
A couple of key O's players will be free agents at the end of the 2026 season
Hello, friends. It is always more fun when the Orioles win rather than lose. That’s certainly true yesterday, when that would have been a painful way to lose and get swept. Instead, the O’s pulled off a comeback win to avoid the sweep. Check out John Beers’s recap of the game for more of the […]