Athletes and their pets

League's error scores Aubrey to give O's season-closing sweep

Michael Aubrey scored the winning run on Brandon League's second throwing error in the 11th inning Sunday, giving the Baltimore Orioles a 5-4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays and a three-game sweep.

Hendrickson gets rare win in start; O's save selves from third 100-loss season

Mark Hendrickson won his first start since April, Jeff Fiorentino drove in two runs and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-3 Saturday night for their third straight victory.

Aubrey has 2-run shot, grand slam as Orioles celebrate Trembley's return

Michael Aubrey hit a two-run homer and his first career grand slam, Matt Wieters added a three-run shot, and Baltimore ended the Toronto Blue Jays' six-game winning streak with a 13-7 victory Friday night.

The final weekend

AJ Mass ranks the starting pitchers and looks for the matchups to exploit and avoid in the final weekend of the season.

...13, 2009 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) NEW YORK - SEPTEMBER 11: Brian Roberts #1 of the Baltimore Orioles hits a 2 RBI single during a game against the New...

Players who've thrived for losing teams

Playing for teams far out of playoff contention hasn't prevented several players from having noteworthy performances in '09.

Rays hand Orioles 12th straight loss for longest skid of year in majors

Rookie Wade Davis allowed one run over seven innings, Carl Crawford stole his career-high 60th base and the Tampa Bay Rays handed the Baltimore Orioles their 12th straight loss with a 3-1 victory on Tuesday night.

Burrell's sac fly grabs lead after four Rays homer off O's pitching

Pat Burrell hit a go-ahead sacrifice fly in the eighth inning and pinch-hitter Willy Aybar had one of four Tampa Bay homers as the Rays extended the Baltimore Orioles' losing streak to 11 games with a 7-6 victory Monday night.

Peralta's game-ending RBI single hands O's 9th loss in a row

Jhonny Peralta hit a game-ending RBI single Saturday night to give the Indians a wild 9-8 win over Baltimore.

Orioles-Indians Preview

Orioles-Indians Preview

Cy Young candidates take mound

AJ Mass ranks pitchers and finds favorable and unfavorable matchups for fantasy baseball matchups of the weekend of Sept. 26-27.

Baseball could soon lose a giant

Bobby Cox first mentioned walking away from baseball in the spring of 2008, and when word of this reached Gene Michael, a former teammate and longtime...

Blog Entry | Conversation | September 23, 2009

Wednesday Wangdoodles

...animals) were harmed in the making of this link-o-rama. • As Pinto points out, Brian Roberts has a chance to do something pretty cool. • It's good to know the...

Encarnacion homers twice, Hill reaches 100 RBIs in Jays' victory

Aaron Hill doubled home the winning run in the bottom of the 11th inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat Baltimore 6-5 on Tuesday night, the Orioles' sixth straight loss.