"He is the one guy that's the biggest that we want to be cautious with, but we're still going to pitch him," Showalter said. "There's a lot of things we don't talk about and broadcast in fairness to Miguel. You ask the guy to be honest with you and when he is, take it to heart."
Around the horn
The Orioles are 40-32 on the road this year, their most road victories in a season since winning 40 in 2004. … The Orioles now have five players with at last 20 home runs: Matt Wieters, who hit his 20th and 21st on Sunday, J.J. Hardy (21), Mark Reynolds (21), Chris Davis (26) and Adam Jones (29). … Wieters' next homer will tie his career high of 22. … Prior to the game, several players and Showalter participated in a meet and greet with Calvin Ripken Trevino, a 14-year-old Orioles fan from the Fresno area who has Von Hippel Lindau syndrome, a disease in which tumors develop along the central nervous system.
