The Baltimore Orioles have seen some outstanding performances from slugger Pete Alonso this season. Alonso is on a hot-streak, with home runs now in three consecutive games.
Good morning Birdland, The Orioles had a golden opportunity on Friday night to gain ground in the AL wild card race. The fading White Sox lost again, which meant an O’s win would have gotten them within two games of that final playoff spot.
There's no sugar-coating the results for the Baltimore Orioles with eight games left in the regular season. They stand three games out of the final wild-card spot in the American League and would need to leapfrog three teams to land in the postseason.
In a game they desperately needed for their fading postseason hopes, the Orioles forced extra innings with two ninth-inning runs before their bullpen allowed a 10th-inning run that the Orioles couldn’t answer, sending them to a 6-5 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers before 25,304 at Camden Yards on Friday night.
The Orioles had another opportunity to inch forward in the waning days of this ever-stranger American League wild-card race. All they had to do was beat the winningest team in the major leagues … and they almost did.
The 2026 season has been headlined by young players emerging, but some wily veterans have also had their day. As we head toward the end of the regular season, these 30 players stand out as the biggest surprises on their teams.
The Orioles bullpen will extend this Orioles season as far as it goes and basically explains why this flawed roster has staved of mathematical elimination to this point.
In the final accounting of the 2026 Orioles season, there will not be a shortage of things that a person can point to as a representative explanation for why things have turned out the way that they did.
Clinging to ever-fainter AL wild card hopes, the Orioles are back in Baltimore to play the MLB-best Brewers over the penultimate weekend of the 2026 regular season.
Sig Mejdal, the Orioles’ vice president and assistant general manager of analytics, who’s been with the team since November 2018, will be changing roles, according to a report by The Athletic, which was confirmed by an industry source.
With the playoffs inching closer, the Baltimore Orioles are making changes not just on the field, but in the front office. On Friday, Britt Ghiroli of The Athletic reported that assistant GM Sig Mejdal won’t be serving in the analytics department any longer.
Félix Bautista was in the Orioles’ clubhouse on Friday after throwing nine games in a rehab assignment. Bautista, who was a dominant closer until he needed Tommy John surgery in 2023, returned last season but needed rotator cuff and labrum surgery in August 2025.
The Orioles have made repeated and perpetual mistakes in every avenue of talent acquisition and development since hiring Mike Elias atop baseball operations in 2018.
Left-hander Cade Povich is expected to rejoin the Baltimore Orioles ahead of their series against the Milwaukee Brewers after being scratched from his scheduled Thursday start with Triple-A Norfolk.
Last week Matt Blood, the Orioles’ vice president of player development and domestic scouting, was let go after seven years with the organization. It’s too early to say definitively why, but one narrative that’s seeped into the mainstream is that the front office is unhappy with how the Orioles’ draft picks have panned out.
Norfolk and Charlotte entered the eighth inning with the game tied at one, but Alex Pham allowed four runs in the top of the eighth. Pham allowed a leadoff single, walked a batter, and allowed a go-ahead single to Korey Lee.
The Milwaukee Brewers already have clinched a spot in the postseason. The prospects of the Baltimore Orioles doing so aren't as bright heading into the opener of a three-game series Friday night against visiting Milwaukee.
After a strong August, the Baltimore Orioles looked like they were playing their best ball when it mattered most. Colton Cowser’s game-winning catch in Colorado was primed to be the catalyst the team needed to chase down the third AL Wild Card spot.
With a 4.38 ERA entering play on Thursday, the Baltimore Orioles’ rotation ranks 21st out of 30 MLB teams. It’s not particularly good, as Brandon Young is the only member of the unit with an ERA under 4.00, at 3.65.
The Baltimore Orioles placed infielder Jackson Holliday on the 10-day injured list on Wednesday with left wrist inflammation. The move is retroactive to Sept.
The Baltimore Orioles avoided a major injury scare Tuesday night after starter Shane Baz was hit by a 105.1 mph comebacker. Baz left the game after the fifth-inning liner struck his right arm, but Orioles manager Craig Albernaz said X-rays were negative after Baltimore’s 7-5 extra-inning win over the New York Mets.
A homegrown talent who had played only for the Mets since making his MLB debut in 2019, Alonso broke the franchise's all-time home run record last summer.
Kyle Bradish’s regular season is over, as the Orioles announced that the right-hander has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to lower abdominal discomfort. Righty Yaramil Hiraldo was called up from Triple-A Norfolk to take Bradish’s spot on the active roster.
Veteran righty Albert Suarez has once again returned to the Orioles on a minor league deal. Baltimore’s Triple-A affiliate announced the agreement, as relayed by Andy Kostka of the Baltimore Banner.