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Home >> Rays >> Breaking News >> Game 43: Rays Sweep the O's as Matt Moore Wins His 8th Game of the Season Matt Moore wins his 8th game of the season as the Rays sweep in a visit to Camden Yard for a 3-1 victory.

Last season, Orioles manager Buck Showalter had the base of the right-field foul pole at Camden Yards painted black in order to help discern balls in play from home runs.

Panic time may soon be setting into Birdland, as the O's losing streak has now reached five games.

If they are going to continue to be successful, if they are going to hang around toward the top of the American League East standings all year, the Orioles have to buck this recent trend of short, uneven starts from their rotation.

There aren't any pictures from tonight's game up yet, but you wouldn't know if not for the dugout.

2. a regularly recurring succession. This is something the Baltimore Orioles do not have.

Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen exited the series finale against the Twins with a right oblique strain after tossing five scoreless innings, putting a damper on another impressive Baltimore road win.

The Baltimore Orioles found out what it was like to have someone come back on you last night as they dropped game two of their series in Minnesota 8-5. Granted the Orioles only had a 3-0 lead whereas they came back from a 6-0 deficet the previous night.

That's what Twins pitching coach Rick Anderson asked reliever Jared Burton on Saturday night as they walked off the field.

As we near the quarter-mark of the season, the minor league affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles have been good as a whole.

When you go down 6-0 in any baseball game I suppose it would be normal for feelings of doubt to creep into one's head.

An annual Major League Baseball undertaking to provide exposure and money to cancer-awareness charities became embroiled in a bit of a controversy Friday, with an Oriole being one of the players inadvertently involved.

Nick Markakis added a sacrifice fly and Adam Jones an RBI double to cap the scoring in the 10th.

If you thought Chris Davis was going to be a one-month wonder, he is serving notice that he is going to be a force to be reckoned with all season long.

Hammel will try to match the MLB lead in victories and become just the third Oriole in 54 years to win his first six road starts Friday night, when he makes his first appearance against the Minnesota Twins at Target Field.

I have just returned from a 17-day trip to Europe. It is nice to go away to a truly incredible place, but better yet to come home - especially during baseball season.

1934 _ Lou Gehrig of the New York Yankees played five innings before removing himself from the game because of illness.

Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts will undergo right hamstring surgery on Thursday in Dallas and is expected to be out about six more weeks, further delaying his comeback hopes this season.

Alex Gordon had just homered and the Royals were down just 2-1. While hardly dominant - well, barely adequate actually - Luis Mendoza had overcome a two run homer by J.J. Hardy in the first to record three straight scoreless innings.

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