Alex Rodriguez

Orioles come out flat, lose to Texas Rangers, 14-3

2012-05-07 20:18:00

The Orioles are now winless this season in games after they have played 17 innings. Call it the Great Boston Marathon Hangover. The Orioles came out manhole-cover-flat Monday, and were run over by the Texas Rangers, 14-3, in a game which they gave up 19...

Santino Quaranta's anti-drug message comes from the heart

2012-05-01 18:03:14

Former Major League Soccer midfielder Santino Quaranta has spoken before about a story that is both disturbing and uplifting — signing with MLS when he was 16, battling abuse of cocaine and painkillers, becoming sober, returning to the game and...

Matusz ends skid, Showalter gets 1,000th win as Orioles rout Yankees

2012-05-01 20:56:00

By the end of Tuesday night, Orioles manager Buck Showalter had reached the 1,000-win milestone, left-hander Brian Matusz had sidestepped club infamy and designated hitter Nick Johnson had finally exhaled in a 7-1 victory over the New York Yankees. It...

Pre-game: Orioles vs. Yankees

2012-04-09 13:33:00

The Orioles --�fresh off their season-opening, three-game sweep of the Twins -- host the Yankees tonight for the opening of a three-game series. The Bronx Bombers are 0-3, reeling from being swept out of Tampa Bay. Tonight, the Orioles send�left-...

Orioles lefty Chen ready to make big league debut

2012-04-09 14:33:00

Orioles manager Buck Showalter placed left-hander Wei-Yin Chen in the starting rotation’s No. 5 spot so he could get adjusted to all the nuances of the major leagues before stepping onto the mound. “I’m living the dream right now...

Gregg says he's up for whatever role Orioles need him in

2012-04-09 19:01:00

Orioles right-hander Kevin Gregg is not in denial. He acknowledges that it will be up to him to re-establish his late-inning credentials now that manager Buck Showalter has made it clear Jim Johnson is the full-time closer. "Ideally, my aspirations are...

Matusz struggles as Orioles lose first of season

2012-04-09 20:59:00

Orioles left-hander Brian Matusz took the mound Monday night for his first start of this young season hoping he could begin to erase the images of his horrible 2011 season. He spoke of pitching with a clean slate, of April optimism and feeling stronger...

Matusz's rough outing just ratchets up the pressure on him

2012-04-10 07:18:00

Everyone on the Orioles was pulling big-time for Brian Matusz last night at Camden Yards. Why wouldn't they?�He's a good kid who struggled through a horrendous (1-9, 10.69 ERA) 2011 season. And the big lefty is being counted on heavily -- again -- this...

Orioles squander chances vs. Yankees, lose in 12 innings

2012-04-10 21:49:00

The night was staged for Orioles left-hander Wei-Yin Chen to take the spotlight. And with more than 1 million viewers in his native Taiwan watching his big league debut half a world away at 7 a.m. there, Chen nearly pitched well enough to earn his first...

O's fans starving for title, but no feast this season

2012-03-25 18:27:00

The first thing that strikes you about the American League East is this: every day will be like the arena fights in "The Hunger Games." This is just what Orioles fans need to hear, of course, but it's true. The AL East is even more of an AL Beast than...

Commentary: Some thoughts on the All-Harford teams

2012-03-29 11:04:00

Stop me if you've read something similar to this in a previous column, but I've always held that my favorite periods of the work year are when the final Aegis All-Harford athlete has his or her picture taken. At that point, the most stressful, thankless...

Machado is focused on one position

2012-03-29 19:30:00

With a wide smile and a hint of bravado, Manny Machado says mostly all the right things about his baseball-playing future. The Orioles' 19-year-old phenom doesn't have a timetable for when he'll make the majors, though he'd like it to be sooner rather...

Orioles catcher Matt Wieters and the Yankees ' Alex Rodriguez look up at Rodriguez's inning-ending pop-up with the bases loaded in the seventh.

2012-05-02 00:00:00

Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit his 631st career home run against the Boston Red Sox on Friday.

2012-04-20 00:00:00

In August 2011 the MLB investigated New York Yankees ball player, Alex Rodriguez, who reportedly participated in illegal high stakes underground poker games. Drugs were openly used among players, and eventually turned violent when one player wouldn't pay up in a steep loss.

2012-04-18 00:00:00