Raise your hand if, before the season started, you guessed Daniel Nava and Scott Podsednik would lead the Boston Red Sox to a victory.... Read More

The Baltimore Orioles lost the finale of their three-game series with the Red Sox Wednesday afternoon, but many with the Baltimore franchise were thinking about a certain player and not the 6-5 defeat.... Read More

BALTIMORE (AP) Sporting a lineup top-heavy with sluggers, the Boston Red Sox got the power they needed from the bottom third of their batting order in a feel-good win over the Baltimore Orioles.... Read More

BOWIE, Md. (AP) Baltimore second baseman Brian Roberts played his first game since sustaining a concussion more than a year ago, going three inning for Double-A Bowie on Wednesday night.... Read More

BALTIMORE-The bottom of the Boston batting order put the Red Sox over the top Wednesday afternoon.... Read More

I have a hard time believing that entering play on May 23, the New York Yankees are only one game over .500 at 22-21. They are mired in fourth place in the American League East -- 5.5 games behind the division-leading Baltimore Orioles. What has happened to the team that I predicted to win the division and contend for another World Series title?... Read More

BALTIMORE -- Daniel Nava, Kelly Shoppach and Scott Podsednik hit late homers that helped the Boston Red Sox defeat the Baltimore Orioles, 6-5, Wednesday afternoon in the finale of their three-game series at Camden Yards.... Read More

NEW PITTSBURG, Ohio (AP) Dean Chance, perhaps the greatest high school pitcher ever, went on to win the 1964 Cy Young Award.... Read More

Typically, the recovery time from a navicular fracture in the foot ranges from six to eight weeks.... Read More

Baltimore Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts has been waiting for this for a full year.... Read More

PHOENIX (AP) Ivan De Jesus showed some surprising muscle at the plate and Dee Gordon hung tough turning two.... Read More

While the Boston Red Sox have been known over the years for a powerful lineup, the Baltimore Orioles are showing they will take a back seat to no one this season when it comes to hitting the long ball.... Read More

BALTIMORE- The Baltimore Orioles got some timely power and pitching, and that was enough to break their two-game losing streak Tuesday night.... Read More

BALTIMORE (AP) Brian Matusz handed the baseball to manager Buck Showalter and headed off the mound, walking ever so slowly toward the Orioles dugout as many in the crowd of 25,171 stood and cheered.... Read More

BALTIMORE -- Steve Tolleson and Wilson Betemit both hit two-run homers, and starter Brian Matusz helped make them stand up as the Baltimore Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Tuesday night at Camden Yards.... Read More

Besides the L.A. teams, the Orioles and Nationals in the east have had unexpected results early on.... Read More

BALTIMORE (AP) Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts will begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment on Wednesday, a significant step in his bid to return from a concussion that has kept him sidelined for more than a year.... Read More

Baltimore: LF Nolan Reimold (herniated neck disk) likely will have a second epidural injection Friday, he told MASNsports.com. Reimold is dealing with pain as well as numbness, and he's been told the injection will only help to dull the pain. ... 2B Brian Roberts, out since May 2011 due to concussion-related issues, will begin a rehab assignment Wednesday with Class AA Bowie (Md.). Roberts could return to the Orioles in mid-June after spending the maximum 20 days in the minors, according to manager Buck Showalter.... Read More

BALTIMORE (AP) The Boston Red Sox placed outfielder Cody Ross on the 15-day disabled list Tuesday and activated Kevin Youkilis, who was on the DL with a strained lower back.... Read More

Women lead when it comes to maintaining two of the nicest baseball fields in the world. GroundskeepHERS, if you will. The Detroit Tigers made Heather Nabozny the first female head groundskeeper in Major League Baseball history in 1999, the team's final season at historic Tiger Stadium, and she's kept the field at Comerica Park looking as nice since it opened. That includes the major-league All-Star game in 2005 and the World Series in '06. In 2007, the Baltimore Orioles named Nicole Sherry the head groundskeeper at Camden Yards, regarded by many as the best ballpark in the majors. And so appreciated was Sherry at her previous job with the Trenton Thunder (the Double-A team of the New York Yankees in the Eastern League), the team gave away a bobblehead doll of her. Not only do these women have dream jobs in a male-dominated industry, they're excelling at them, and ESPN's Amanda Rykoff wrote a terrific profile of both . Nabozny, like most major-league players, got her professional start in the minors. For her, that meant the Class A West Michigan Whitecaps of the Midwest League: ... Read More

NEW YORK (AP) The Kansas City Royals placed second baseman Chris Getz on the 15-day disabled list with a ribcage injury Tuesday and called up left-hander Will Smith from Triple-A Omaha.... Read More