Manny Machado

SARASOTA, Fla. — Around this time last year, Manny Machado was spending his spring on a nomadic journey shuffling between Baltimore's minor league and major league camps. He wore No. 95. When he made appearances in the major league camp, he dressed in an auxiliary clubhouse isolated from the big league players. But after an early-August call-up from Class AA Bowie — a move that helped propel the Orioles to the playoffs — the 20-year-old Machado is entrenched in the clubhouse this spring.

BALTIMORE — Baltimore's hitters staged an improbable comeback Friday night. They just couldn't pull the Orioles all the way out of the big hole their pitchers put them in. Kelly Johnson hit a three-run homer and an RBI single and the Tampa Bay Rays held on for a 12-10 victory over slumping Baltimore on Friday night. The Orioles, who trailed 12-4 after six innings, surrendered a season-high 17 hits for the second straight game and gave up their most runs in any game this season.

BALTIMORE — Thursday at Camden Yards was supposed to be about third baseman Manny Machado, the Orioles' top hitting prospect who was making his big league debut directly out of Class AA. To paraphrase one of Orioles Manager Buck Showalter's favorite sayings, however, the Kansas City Royals didn't cooperate. Orioles starter Wei-Yin Chen turned in the worst start of his brief, big league career in an 8-2 bashing by the Royals that snapped Baltimore's five-game win streak. It was the fifth time this season...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Orioles played one of their better all-around games of the young season Sunday, using three homers and strong pitching to shut out the Minnesota Twins, 6-0, while capturing their ninth series victory in 12 opportunities. And yet the Orioles fly out of Minnesota for an extended homestand with the potential of losing their most consistent starting pitcher — Taiwanese lefty Wei-Yin Chen — for a few weeks. "I don't even want to think about it," said...

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter might not be a fan of doubleheaders, but he couldn't complain about the result of Saturday's split twin-bill against the Los Angeles Dodgers at Camden Yards. The Orioles won both games of the doubleheader, getting a career-high four RBI from Manny Machado in a 6-1 nightcap win that followed their 7-5 victory in the early game. In between, the team honored former manager Earl Weaver, the legendary Orioles skipper who...

Phenom Manny Machado whipped Camden Yards into a frenzy by hitting his first two career home runs in the Baltimore Orioles' 7-1 win over the Kansas City Royals, becoming the youngest Oriole to hit two in a single game. At 20 years, 35 days old, Machado became the 12th youngest player in major league history to have a multihomer game. Most recently, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout homered twice last Aug. 30 when he was just 12 days younger than Machado. ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The Orioles played one of their better all-around games of the young season Sunday, using three homers and strong pitching to shut out the Minnesota Twins, 6-0, while capturing their ninth series victory in 12 opportunities. And yet the Orioles fly out of Minnesota for an extended homestand with the potential of losing their most consistent starting pitcher — Taiwanese lefty Wei-Yin Chen — for a few weeks. "I don't even want to think...

BALTIMORE —For the third straight game, the Baltimore Orioles won despite being out-hit by their opponent, instead using stingy defense, clutch late-inning pitching and opportunistic base running for a 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals in front of an announced 12,344 at Camden Yards. "I think we've run the bases well the last couple nights," Manager Buck Showalter said. "We made some things happen there, trying to take advantage of what's there and what's not. " ...

OAKLAND – It had been 20 years since the Baltimore Orioles and Oakland A's had played each other in September with both clubs boasting winning records. These versions of the A's and Orioles may not be experienced in playing meaningful September games, but they did their part on Friday night, trading blows until the A's eventually walked away with a 3-2 victory before an announced crowd of 35,067. The loss keeps the Orioles (81-63) in a first-place tie with the New York Yankees, who also...

With the way the Orioles have mixed and matched this season, bringing in rookies and former all-stars, once-weres and never-have-beens to form a strange group that keeps winning when it's supposed to fall back to reality, perhaps Wednesday's 12-2 pummeling of the Toronto Blue Jays shouldn't have been a surprise. But any time a club hits three homers in an inning – including two by guys more than 20 years apart in age – and a franchise-tying seven in one game it's noteworthy, even for this crazy season.

MINNEAPOLIS — Steve Johnson may have been the best feel-good story in a Baltimore Orioles season filled with them last year. The Baltimore native and son of a former Oriole stormed onto the big-league stage and won all four of his decisions, providing a huge boost during a pennant push. His 2013 hasn't been as smooth; it was delayed for weeks by a lat injury and, when he returned to the big leagues Saturday, he lasted just four innings in the Orioles' 8-5 loss to the Minnesota Twins at...

MINNEAPOLIS — Thanks to the focus of guys like Jim Johnson and the toughness of Manny Machado, the Baltimore Orioles don't play like the youngest team in their division. Machado had a tiebreaking RBI single in a three-run 10th inning as the Orioles rallied for a 9-6 win over the Minnesota Twins on Friday night. Machado — who stayed in the game after fouling a ball hard off his ankle in the fifth — rolled a single into right field that scored Chris Dickerson...

BALTIMORE —For the third straight game, the Baltimore Orioles won despite being out-hit by their opponent, instead using stingy defense, clutch late-inning pitching and opportunistic base running for a 5-3 win over the Kansas City Royals in front of an announced 12,344 at Camden Yards. "I think we've run the bases well the last couple nights," Manager Buck Showalter said. "We made some things happen there, trying to take advantage of what's there and what's not. " It was the...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — With the opportunity to end their three-city, 11-game West Coast road trip with a series win in Los Angeles, the Baltimore Orioles overcame an early two-run deficit to beat the Angels , 8-4, on Sunday afternoon at Angel Stadium. The Orioles (19-13) completed their road trip to Oakland, Seattle and Los Angeles with a 7-4 mark. Sunday's win was the Orioles' 12th road victory of the season, the second-most in the majors behind the St. Louis...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Right-hander Freddy Garcia did more than enough to earn the win in his first start in a Baltimore Orioles uniform on Saturday afternoon, holding the Los Angeles Angels hitless for six innings. The Orioles, on the other hand, took a while to do their part, needing a 10th-inning two-out single by Steve Pearce after blowing a four-run, seventh-inning lead for a 5-4 extra-inning win over the Angels in front of an announced 32,136 at Angel Stadium.

OAKLAND, Calif. — Leading by five runs in the sixth inning, the Baltimore Orioles appeared to be cruising to their first four-game sweep of the Athletics at Oakland Coliseum in 26 years. But it couldn't be that easy, not in Oakland, not against an A's team that the Orioles had previously swept just once in a four-game series — in May 1987 — in the clubs' histories. The A's stormed back in the sixth, tied the game in the seventh, returned the lead in the eighth and then tied it again in the bottom of...

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Orioles rookie third baseman Manny Machado has spent his brief time at third base in the big leagues making difficult plays — like a slow roller down the line — look routine. But the charging bare-handed, throw-across-the-infield plays he's made paled in comparison to the one he made Wednesday night in another riveting Orioles win. With the go-ahead run on second base and two outs in the top of the ninth inning, Machado charged Evan Longoria's slow roller...

BALTIMORE — Baltimore Orioles first baseman Chris Davis didn't make history with his bat Saturday night; instead he picked up a key late error that led to a 6-5 loss to the Minnesota Twins at Camden Yards. Davis didn't handle a one-out grounder by Aaron Hicks in the top of the ninth; he punched his fist into his mitt as the ball squirted into right. Three batters later, Justin Morneau laced a two-out single against Jim Johnson (0-1) to break a 5-5...

When the topic of winning streaks arose before Wednesday afternoon's game against the Toronto Blue Jays, Orioles Manager Buck Showalter insisted that his players don't pay much attention to them. "I don't think they had a thing up there where they were X'ing out [and saying] ‘There's one more,'" Showalter deadpanned. "Our guys, they don't get too bogged down. " But later Wednesday, a streak that has defined the Orioles' resilience ended as they dropped a 6-5 decision in 11 innings at...

BALTIMORE — On a frigid night at Camden Yards, the Baltimore Orioles ' first game against the Toronto Blue Jays this season had very little scoring, but it included a dramatic ending. The Orioles orchestrated their second walk-off win in five games on Nick Markakis's game-winning single with the bases loaded and two outs in the ninth inning for a 2-1 win over Toronto. Markakis slapped the game-winning hit the opposite way into left field off Blue...