Jason Hammel

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The same question followed the Orioles through a maddeningly uneventful offseason and a happily uneventful seven weeks of spring training. Would the magic that carried them to the playoffs for the first time in 15 years...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Despite everything they accomplished last season, the Orioles realize they will spend the next six months still proving people wrong. Coming off a year in which they defied the odds and scoffed at conventionality, these Orioles...

Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Orioles. 20 -- home runs on off-speed pitches for Chris Davis since the start of 2012. With his four home runs in the first four games of the season,...

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Before the Orioles’ Grapefruit League game against the Yankees on Monday afternoon, left-hander Tsuyoshi Wada threw from a full mound for the first time in more than 10 months. Wada, who is rehabbing from Tommy John surgery, last...

Beautiful blue sky at Camden Yards on Sunday. Not a cloud in sight. In fact, it was so beautiful it helped cost the Orioles a win. Here's what you take from that 4-3 loss to the Minnesota Twins: The Orioles are 3-3 to start the new season. And in all...

There was supposed to be a feel-good ending to the first weekend of baseball in Baltimore since last year’s surprise playoff run — a pronouncement to all the doubters that this club is for real and ready to knock around with the big boys of...

The first week of the baseball season is done. The Orioles came out of it 3-3. They won two of three against the Tampa Bay Rays in Tropicana Field, never an easy place to play. Then they lost two of three at home to the rebuilding Minnesota Twins. The...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — From the moment manager Buck Showalter took over the club in August 2010, there was talk about how he needed to change the culture of losing that permeated everything Orioles. Not just get this team out of last place in...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In his first opportunity as an Opening Day starter, Orioles right-hander Jason Hammel allowed just three hits and three runs in six innings and picked up his first victory in 32 outings at his old home, Tropicana Field....

Each Wednesday, blogger Matt Vensel will highlight five statistics that really mean something for the Orioles. seven -- runs batted in by Adam Jones, Matt Wieters and Chris Davis in Tuesday’s 7-4 win over the Rays. The Orioles were criticized...

One of the biggest surprises of a stunning 93-win season for the Orioles last season was the emergence of Taiwanese left-hander Wei-Yin Chen, who led Baltimore starters in wins, quality starts, strikeouts and ERA. Chen started 32 games -- 12 more than...

Eduardo A. Encina, reporter: The Orioles set the tone early with patient at-bats – making reigning Cy Young Award winner David Price uncomfortable on the mound – before relying on those big middle-of-the-order bats. The biggest at-bat of the...