Matt Wieters

BALTIMORE — A night after designated hitter Chris Davis became the 19th Baltimore Oriole in franchise history to hit three homers in a game, catcher Matt Wieters accomplished something a lot less explosive but even more rare on Saturday. In the Orioles' 8-2 win against the Toronto Blue Jays , which guaranteed them another series victory, Wieters turned in an impressive defensive hat trick: He threw out three Blue Jays trying to steal. It has happened just 14 times in...

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.

CHICAGO — The Baltimore Orioles spent seven innings Monday night stranding base runners at an astonishing rate. Maybe they were just setting the stage for the dramatic. Credit a late-inning power surge that forced extra innings, and then a six-run 10th-inning outburst that included catcher Matt Wieters's first career grand slam — one of four Baltimore long balls, all after the seventh — to give the Orioles a 10-4 comeback win over the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field.

MINNEAPOLIS — Steve Johnson needed to have an effective performance in his first start of the season to stay in the Orioles' rotation. But as the game wore on and the winds picked up in chilly Target Field, he lost his grip on the ball, the lead, and eventually his spot on the roster. The Twins rallied from a 3-0 deficit, knocking Johnson out after four innings, on the way to an 8-5 win. After the game, Johnson was sent back to Triple-A Norfolk, and the Orioles will make a corresponding move before Sunday's...

OAKLAND, Calif. — There was no foreboding, no sense of dread in the Baltimore Orioles' clubhouse Sunday morning, just a lot of NFL watching and fantasy football smack talk. Yet there was underlying sense that these Orioles needed to win at the Oakland Coliseum on Sunday to prove they could be successful here — in case they have to come back in October. After scoring just four runs in their first two games in Oakland, the Orioles' offense resurfaced — thanks in part to two solo homers by...

BALTIMORE — Matt Wieters's 10th-inning opposite-field RBI double gave the Baltimore Orioles a 5-4 victory and their second walk-off victory in as many days over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday afternoon in front of a sellout crowd at Camden Yards. Prior to Wieters's hit, the big plays had come from third baseman Steve Tolleson. Tolleson had blasted a tying, three-run homer off Phillies starter Cliff Lee in the fourth inning and provided a...

BALTIMORE — Winning 16 straight extra-inning games last season, the Baltimore Orioles managed to write chapter after chapter of unforgettable endings. But Thursday night's first extra-inning game of the season, a 10-inning 10-6 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, might have topped them all. For those remaining of the announced 13,986, the image of Matt Wieters watching his towering flyball land in the right-center field seats of Camden Yards for the Orioles' first walk-off...

BALTIMORE — If there was a blueprint that Oriole fans hoped that the team would find on many nights during the 2011 season, it would go something like this: Young starter survives some command problems to pitch reasonably deep into the game. The back end of the bullpen holds the lead. Young hitters supply big swings and a veteran slugger provides the exclamation point with a long home run. The Orioles followed that template...

BALTIMORE — It's tough to fault Nationals reliever Sean Burnett too much for the fastball that was too high to Orioles catcher Matt Wieters in the eighth inning of a one-run game Sunday afternoon. For all the jumbled roles the Nationals' bullpen has endured because of injuries, Burnett has been a steady force, a left-handed reliever who has made the eighth inning carefree for Washington. Burnett gave up a single to Adam...

As noted in the Oct. 31 Post, congratulations are in order to Adam LaRoche for his National League Gold Glove for brilliant work this season at first base for the Nationals [" Nationals' LaRoche wins first Gold Glove ," Sports]. LaRoche and the Nats deserve great credit for a great season. But how could The Post not write, beyond a simple listing of names, on the neighboring Baltimore Orioles winning three Gold Gloves: Matt Wieters at catcher, J.J. Hardy at shortstop and Adam Jones in center field. The Orioles also had...

BALTIMORE — Late nights are nothing new for these Baltimore Orioles , not after spending their past 11 games on the West Coast. Their internal clocks finally rewound back to East Coast time after Monday's off day, the Orioles couldn't control the elements Tuesday night against the Kansas City Royals. The Orioles went into a 48-minute rain delay with a two-run lead in the top of the seventh inning. But once the storms cleared, that lead quickly evaporated. That simply set the stage for more late-inning...

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 Cardinals (13)

Baltimore — The last time the Baltimore Orioles faced knuckleballer R.A. Dickey , they were mystified by pitches with so little spin that you can nearly make out Bud Selig's signature on the baseball. But on Tuesday, the Orioles battered the reigning National League Cy Young Award winner at Camden Yards in their first meeting against him as a member of the bolstered Toronto Blue Jays . The Orioles batted around in a four-run second inning against...

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...

BALTIMORE — Winning 16 straight extra-inning games last season, the Baltimore Orioles managed to write chapter after chapter of unforgettable endings. But Thursday night's first extra-inning game of the season, a 10-inning 10-6 win over the Tampa Bay Rays, might have topped them all. For those remaining of the announced 13,986, the image of Matt Wieters watching his towering flyball land in the right-center field seats of Camden Yards for the Orioles' first walk-off...

NEW YORK — The elements weren't kind to the Orioles or Yankees on Friday night. Playing through a bone-chilling Bronx cold not fit for mid-April was a challenge for both teams, and only the bravest fans filled the seats of a less than half-full Yankee Stadium. But it was the mental mistakes that cost the Orioles in a 5-2 loss, the most critical one coming when Gold Glove center fielder Adam Jones dropped a two-out fly ball, allowing three runs to score and break a 2-2 tie in the bottom of...

BALTIMORE -- Reprinted from yesterday's late editions David Hernandez did all the things Baltimore Orioles Manager Dave Trembley hoped he would not do Thursday night against the Indians. He fell behind hitters. He threw a ton of pitches. He put men on base. It could have been a disastrous outing for the rookie right-hander, who was backed by a lineup that was missing both Adam Jones and Brian Roberts. But somehow, it wasn't. It was actually a pretty promising display of guts by Hernandez.

BALTIMORE, May 31 -- In the middle of Sunday's 3-0 loss to the Detroit Tigers, first baseman Aubrey Huff turned to rookie catcher Matt Wieters and imparted some wisdom. The club was in the process of being shut down by Detroit's Edwin Jackson before an announced crowd of 34,567 at Camden Yards, just hours after its five-game winning streak was snapped by the Tigers' ace, Justin Verlander. And Huff thought Wieters, who was hitless in three at-bats in his third day with the Orioles, could use a little veteran perspective.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Over the last few days of spring training, Baltimore Orioles Manager Buck Showalter mentioned often how his team had been long ready to break camp, to get out of their spring training home and play games that actually meant something. In wearing out reigning American League Cy Young winner David Price in Tuesday's opener against the Tampa Bay Rays , the Orioles showed just how ready they were. The Orioles chased Price from the game in the seventh inning, then orchestrated a...

SARASOTA, Fla. — Matt Wieters seemed like the perfect choice to catch for the U.S. team in the World Baseball Classic, but the two-time all-star made it clear early on that he wanted to spend as much time as possible in spring camp with the Baltimore Orioles. "I'd love to be able to play for my country," Wieters said Tuesday, "but, at the same time, you have responsibilities to your team and responsibilities, for me, to the pitching staff — to be able to...