"The guy looks like 'The Ice Man Cometh' sometimes. He's got ice on his knee, his foot, his shoulder, his hamstring, his Achilles. It's everywhere, and he doesn't say one word," Trembley said. "I think in the offseason he'll probably get something done. He's a pretty tough kid. He's got a 25 percent tear in his Achilles, and he runs like he runs. That's why I've tried to get him off his feet sometimes, but just DHing him and not playing him in the outfield. He's a good player."
Asked whether it's possible Reimold could be shut down early, Trembley said: "There's no talk about shutting him down, not at all. I think he's had this for a long time. I don't think this is something that happened in June or July. He's played through it since spring training. But I think it's a point where they are going to look at it at the end of the year."
At home in the ninth
It wasn't a save situation when Chris Ray entered Friday's game in the ninth inning with the Orioles holding a 5-1 lead. Nonetheless, Trembley viewed Ray's performance as another significant step forward in the reliever's return to a late-inning role.
Ray, the Orioles' closer before missing the entire 2008 season after having ligament-reconstruction surgery on his right elbow, retired the White Sox in order in the ninth, punctuating the outing by blowing a fastball past Alexei Ramirez to end the game.
Entering this month with a 9.28 ERA, Ray has surrendered just one earned run in nine August outings spanning 12 2/3 innings.
"It's been an awful long time for him," Trembley said. "The way he threw the ball was vintage Chris Ray. He had command and stuff. That's great for him and great for us."
Around the horn
Dennis Sarfate (circulatory condition) finished another phase of his minor league rehabilitation by pitching a scoreless inning for Triple-A Norfolk on Friday. He's expected to pitch a couple of simulated games and side sessions before rejoining the Orioles when rosters expand Sept. 1. ... Roberts has 46 doubles and is on pace to have the first 60-double season by any player since 1936, when both the St. Louis Cardinals' Joe Medwick (64) and the Detroit Tigers' Charlie Gehringer (60) reached that mark.
