Bell's turn to shine is now after Tejada trade.

The Baltimore Orioles dealt away third baseman Miguel Tejada on thursday for pitching prospect Wynn Pelzer. This move makes way for Josh Bell to be the every day third baseman while also showing the club what he has to offer for the future. Bell is 5 for 19 in 6 games with the O's this year playing sparingly when players needed a day off. 


Losing Tejada you lose a player who loves the game and also provides a great passion on and off the field. He is also a great club house guy that can motivate the players around him. Tejada has a chance to go to a club that is in a playoff race and will give him a great chance to win. Though Tejada had this to say "an honor to go to play where they want me. But I'm sad because I've loved being here. I've been here a long time and it's like my home. I love being here with these guys. I'm sad but I know this game is a business." 


As a Oriole fan and a fan of the game I wish him and his family the best. Good luck Miguel!

The Buck stops in Baltimore!

The Baltimore Orioles have announced that former manager of the year Buck Showalter as there manager. The O's have the worst record in baseball and are on a verge of breaking the record for most losses in a single season. Buck will take over the team on Tuesday night when the team returns back to Baltimore.

The task is huge for a man that has been manager of the year twice. In 1994 with the Yankees and 2004 with the Rangers. He also managed the Diamondbacks and built the team that ended up winning the World Series the year after being fired.

He has been complimented on his readiness and passion for fundamentals of the game. He has 882 wins compared to 833 loses in his coaching career. The move allows for him to examine the team for the rest of the season to understand what he needs to acquire and what moves need to be made in the off season. He is signed through the 2013 season.

O's drop 4th straight, give ball to Guthrie to end skid!

The Baltimore Orioles have not only lost the last 4 games but they have been out scored 34 to 13 in the losses. The last 2 games have been against the Toronto Blue Jays who they have yet to beat this year. The O's are 0-11 against the Jays this season. They will turn to Jeremy Guthrie to break the streak tonight as he will take on Brad Mills.

Guthrie has pitched solid of late only allowing 3 total runs in his last 2 starts while pitching at least 6 innings and striking out 6 in both starts. Though he only picked up 1 win in the starts with a total of 5 runs of support. Guthrie will look for the red hot Luke Scott to continue his power surge and Nick Markakis add a few more doubles to his total.

O's notes: The O's have a few big trade chips that could help land a few more prospects come the 31st trade deadline. That being said they team will not just trade players away to get rid of them and will look to make trades that will help the club.

Ravens, Cody agree to contract!

The Baltimore Ravens and Terrence Cody can now focus on the upcoming training camp and season. Cody signed a three year deal with the Ravens. With him and Ngata on the front line other teams will have a massive job protecting the quarterback when those two plug the holes for All Pro Linebacker Ray Lewis to get to the quarterback. Look for Mt. Cody to be a massive force in his rookie season.

Ravens notes: Sergio Kindle expected to miss the entire training camp after falling down two flights of steps over the weekend.

Scott continues power surge but O's fall!

The Baltimore Orioles were down by 8 through 5 innings but that didn't stop the team from attempting a comeback as Luke Scott smashed his 5th home-run since returning from the disabled list. The O's also got 2 home-runs off the bat of the young catcher Matt Wieters for his first multi home-run game of his career but that is all the O's would get and would lose to the Toronto Blue Jays 9-5. For Toronto Jose Bautista connected for his 28th home-run of the season while moving his rbi total up to 70 on the season.

The O's starter Brad Bergesen struggled allowing 8 earned runs over 5 innings before handing the ball over to Matt Albers. Albers threw 3 innings allowing 1 earned run out of the bullpen to give the pen a much  needed relief.

O's notes: Jose Bautista played in 16 games for the O's in 2004 going 3 for 11 at the plate.

Guthrie throws tonight against Twins! Could this be a audition for another ball team?

The Baltimore Orioles are at that point on the season where the team has become sellers and will look to trade away players that have some value. That being said the team will not make a trade that doesn't offer them a solid return for the player. Every game seems to be filled with teams in playoff hunts scouting O's players such as Ty Wigginton, Luke Scott, Kevin Millwood, Miguel Tejada & Jeremy Guthrie.

Tonight Jeremy Guthrie will take the mound against the Minnesota Twins with one though on his mind and that is play the game of baseball while not thinking of the trade talks. Guthrie is 3-10 on the season that doesn't match how well he has pitched. His last outing he lasted 6.2 innings allowing 1 earned run while striking out 6.

If Guthrie throws another solid outing tonight that could only help the return if the O's decide to move him.

Wigginton, Kranitz, Samuel both get the boot!

The Baltimore Orioles were down by 4 and in the top of the 7th when the Twins batter missed the sign and left the runner left out to dry. The runner retreated to first base where the throw beat him to the bag. Ty Wigginton put the tag down and got the runner but only to see the ump call him safe. Ty jumped up, got in the face of and bumped first base ump Gary Darling while arguing the call at first. Moments later pitching coach Rick Kranitz argued balls and strikes and was tossed by home plate umpire Bill Hohn. Within moments Juan Samuel proceeded to make a pitching coach and he to got in to it with Hohn and he would be tossed also. The fired up Samuel got the crowed fired up before throwing his cap on the field and exiting the field.

Millwood returns, looks to stop Twins

Kevin Millwood gets the start tonight for the Orioles his first since July 5th. After his outing on the 5th Millwood was placed on the 15 day dl. The O's hope Millwood can return to the form he was in the first 11 starts in which he pitched to a 3.89 era. Though he had no wins to show for his efforts. The O's will face Carl Pavano tonight at Camden Yards.

O's notes: Brian Roberts may be activated by the weekend to play for the major league club after rehabbing with the Bowie Baysox. In three games with the Baysox he went 6 for 14 with 2 doubles and 3 rbi's.

O's can't avoid the sweep of Tigers!

The series between the Baltimore Orioles & Detroit Tigers involved a lot of run scoring on both sides but more falling in the Tigers corner. Game 3 was a little different though with the Tigers winning 4-2 in a game which Brad Bergesen allows 4 runs in 6 innings of work but the O's could only get 7 hits with two coming off the bat Adam Jones. Matt Wieters accounted for the 1 rbi with a sac fly in the 9th.

The O's will kick of a 4 game series against the Texas Rangers in Texas tonight. The O's hand the ball to Jeremy Guthrie while Tommy Hunter will get the ball for the Rangers.

O's lose on walk-off bomb of Damon's bat!

The O's got solid pitching from the youngster Jake Arrieta but that was not enough as the bullpen gave up a 4-1 lead than a 5-3 lead which lead to extra innings. In the bottom of the 11th Johnny Damon smashed a 2 run bomb off of David Hernandez to lead the Detroit Tigers to victory.

The O's were lead at the plate by Nick Markakis who went 3 for 6 while driving in 3 runs and hitting his 5th home-run of the season. Matt Wieters added a double and a triple while Felix Pie, Julio Lugo, Miguel Tejada and Ty Wigginton each had at least 2 hits a piece. Arrieta went 6.1 innings allowing 1 earned run while striking out 4 in the no decision.

Baltimore will look to bounce back tomorrow against Max Scherzer. The O's will try to avoid the sweep before heading to Texas for a 4 game series starting Thursday. The O's put the ball in Brad Bergesen's hand with the hopes of avoiding the sweep.

O's give ball to Arrieta today against Tigers!

The Baltimore Orioles skipper Juan Samuel and the bullpen are hoping Jake Arrieta can cool off the Detroit Tigers bats after a run scoring derby in game one. Which lead to 1 inning pitched for Kevin Millwood and less than 2 innings pitched for Andrew Oliver the starter for the Tigers.

The O's were lead by Jake Fox who went 3 for 5 with 1 home-run and 2 rbi's and Julio Lugo who was 3 for 4 with a rbi triple. Matt Wieters also had a pair of hits and 2 rbi's.

The O's have Jake Arrieta on the mound tonight while the Tigers have Armando Galarraga.

Haloti Ngata will be at Great Moments in Westminster on July 24th!

Baltimore Ravens big man Haloti Ngata will be signing autographs at Great Moments at our Westminster Location on July 24th from 12pm to 1:30pm. To get your tickets today by clicking here or by going to www.greatmomentsinc.com

Matusz pitches O's past Sox!

Brian Matusz silenced the bats of the Boston Red Sox on Sunday as he went 7 innings only allowing 2 hits while striking out 8. Thats all the O's needed as they they built a 6-0 lead going in to the bottom of the 9th The Red Sox would manage to get a run off of the O's bullpen but that would be it as the O's would win 6-1 to avoid the sweep.

The O's got 3 hits a piece from Nick Markakis and Cesar Izturis while each had doubles. Markakis added a rbi to go with rbi's off the bats of Jones, Lugo, Wigginton & Moore.

The O's head to Detroit to take on the Tigers today with Kevin Millwood getting the start while the Red Sox head to Tampa Bay to take on the Rays.

O's fall to Red Sox 3-2!

The Baltimore Orioles got the Brad Bergesen outing they have been waiting for since last season. Brad pitched 7 2/3 solid innings. The only mistakes were 2 home-runs allowed to J.D. Drew and allowing a 2 out double to Marco Scutaro in the 8th before being removed for the bullpen to get him out of the inning. That would not happen as Will Ohman would allow a single to Daniel Nava to give Boston a 3-2 lead. Thats all the Sox would need as Papelbon would come in and close out the 9th.

The O's production came from a solo shot of the bat of Nick Markakis and a rbi single from Corey Patterson.

The O's look to Jeremy Guthrie in game 2 while the Red Sox hand the ball over to Jon Lester.

O's bats go from hot to cold over night!

The Baltimore Orioles were red hot on wednesday and ice cold on thursday as the fell to the Oakland A's 8-1. The bats were kept in line by Trevor Cahill and the lone run came on a Nick Markakis sac fly in the first inning. Jake Arrieta went 6 innings allowing 3 earned runs while striking out 2 and would give way to the bullpen that would allow 4 more runs to push the score to 8-1. That would be the final as the O's lose the series to the A's. 

Corey Patterson had 2 hits with one being a double and scored the lone run. While Nick Markakis, Adam Jones, Miguel Tejada, Matt Wieters and Josh Bell each added 1 hit a piece. 

Up next for the O's is a trip to Fenway Park in Boston to take on the Boston Red Sox. The O's will hand Brad Bergesen the ball against the veteran knuckleballer Tim Wakefield in game 1 tonight!

Jones owned June!

Adam Jones started off the first two months of the season in a downward trend and was on verge of a bad season. That all seemed to change as the month of June and summer came rolling in. Jones rebounded nicely to raise his average to .274 on the season while ending April batting .223 and raised it to .251 in May. The hits keep coming and the average keeps rising.

Jones tied a club record for home-runs in the month of June with 8. Now with 13 on the season and a good candidate to make the all-star team for the second time in a row to be the Orioles representative.

Junes totals for Jones were 32 hits in 100 at-bats while driving in 21 runs and scoring 16 runs. 12 of the 32 hits were extra base hits with 4 doubles and the 8 home-runs. He batted .320 in the month while picking up 4 walks and stealing 2 bases.

Lets hope Jones can ride these numbers through the final game of the season!

Orioles smash 5 home-runs to beat A's!

The Baltimore Orioles showed they have some power and did it all in the same game as the O's ride 5 long balls to victory to avoid back to back loses against the Oakland A's wednesday night! The Orioles got on the scoreboard first putting up 2 in the 2nd and 1 in the 3rd but Oakland would get 6 off of Kevin Millwood in the 4th to take a 6-3 lead. Thats all the A's would get and the O's would take advantage scoring runs in the bottom of the 4th, 7th and 8th to win 9-6.

The O's were lead by Adam Jones who had 3 hits with 1 double, 1 home-run & 3 rbi's. The team would get 4 more home-runs off the bats of Corey Patterson, Ty Wigginton, Miguel Tejada & Luke Scott to help the team come from behind late to win another ball game.

The O's & A's look to finish a 3 game series tonight at Orioles Park @ Camden Yards. Jake Arrieta will take the mound for the O's looking for win number 3 on the season while Trevor Cahill will get the ball for the A's.