Camden Yards

Hours after Kevin Gausman made his Camden Yards debut, 30 of the state's top high school senior baseball players -- most just four years younger than the rookie right-hander -- made theirs, playing in the 32nd annual Brooks Robinson All-Star Game at Oriole Park. Gausman lasted six innings. The prep athletes lasted two and a half. And then Mother Nature intervened with a thunderstorm, prompting the suspension of the remainder of the game. The teams will attempt to restart the game Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Camden Yards.

Orioles rookie right-hander Kevin Gausman 's first two major league starts were marred by home runs and inconsistencies. After losses to Toronto and Washington, the rookie entered Sunday's matchup with Detroit - the best hitting team in the majors - with an 11.00 ERA. But before the matchup with the Tigers - a 4-2 Orioles win - Gausman spent more time in the video room with catcher Chris Snyder looking over the Tigers' lineup from top...

Orioles outfielder Chris Dickerson mixed in with the crowds of people as he rode his bike along Baltimore's streets to Camden Yards on Friday afternoon. His night ended with a celebration - a sellout crowd at Camden Yards cheering for him - as he rounded the bases after leading the Orioles to a 7-5 walk-off win over the Detroit Tigers with a three-run home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning. Tigers right-hander Max Scherzer - who limited the Orioles to just five baserunners and three hits over eight innings - baffled the Orioles for much of the night, but in the end, they emerged with their fourth walk-off win over the season.

The debate whether right-hander Jason Hammel intentionally threw at Detroit Tigers left fielder Matt Tuiasosopo's head was markedly one-sided in both clubhouses following the the Orioles' ugly 10-3 loss Saturday. Both dugouts agreed that Hammel had no intent to harm Tuiasosopo in the fourth inning of Saturday's game. The umpires didn't entirely disagree, but claimed that Hammel - intentionally or not - forced them to prevent a wild game from getting out of hand. After allowing three consecutive solo home runs to the Tigers in the fourth inning, Hammel's next pitch - an 82-mph slider - sailed out of his hand and toward Tuiasosopo's head, hitting him on the left shoulder as he ducked away from the pitch.

Relievers usually don't throw regular side sessions because they're on call daily, but Patton said he wanted to start after struggling with command of his fastball. In the eighth inning of Thursday night's win over the Washington Nationals, Nate McLouth broke his bat and hit a pop fly into shallow right field that fell between second baseman Danny Espinosa and right fielder Roger Bernadina . McLouth rounded first base and sprinted to second without hesitation, reaching safely for a one-out double.

As the calendar is about to turn to June, the Orioles are 29-24 and find themselves in the midst of the American League playoff race. Hall of Fame third baseman Brooks Robinson has taken notice, albeit from afar. Making an appearance Thursday morning at the Warehouse to honor Maryland high school players selected to play in Sunday's Brooks Robinson All-Star Game at Camden Yards, Robinson briefly addressed the state of the franchise he played his entire career for. “It's a long season, I think we'll have to wait and see [just how good the team can be]

Major league sluggers, when they're locked in, can make the game look effortless. And they tend to keep their game-face firmly in place as they trot around the bases after even the most titanic home runs. But nobody does nonchalance like Chris Davis. The big first baseman's two homers Wednesday night in the Orioles' exciting 9-6 comeback win over the Washington Nationals is a case in point. His swing is a thing of beauty, ranging from an unhurried uncoiling of the hips and shoulders that results in the flick of the bat or a Mighty Casey, we're-going-for-the-fences explosion where the bat seems to rip through the air like a battle sword.

The clinic that Orioles right-hander Freddy Garcia put on Thursday night against the Washington Nationals wasn't one in power pitching, but it was effective nonetheless. After the Orioles and Nationals combined for 14 homers the previous two nights, the 36-year-old Garcia dominated Thursday's final meeting between the teams, a game that became an unlikely pitcher's duel. Anchored by Garcia's eight scoreless innings, the Orioles beat the Nationals, 2-0, in front of an announced 30,655 at Camden Yards.

When the Orioles brought in Freddy Garcia in late March, he seemed destined to be depth as a fifth or spot starter in the back end of the rotation. But Thursday night against the Washington Nationals, Garcia turned in the performance of an ace in the Orioles' 2-0 victory at Camden Yards . The right-hander threw eight shutout innings and allowed just three hits while striking out six on 113 pitches in the Orioles' third win in the past four games. He retired 14 straight batters from the second to the sixth innings, and he retired 21 of the final 22 Nationals he faced.

Steve Johnson pitched 2 1/3 innings of relief in the Orioles' come-from-behind 9-6 victory over the Washington Nationals on Wednesday night at Camden Yards, eight years after he stepped onto the field at Oriole Park for the first time as a participant in the Brooks Robinson High School All-Star Game. Participants in this year's game, which will be played at Camden Yards on Sunday following the Orioles' game against the Detroit Tigers, were introduced Thursday to the legendary Robinson in a banquet room on the sixth floor of the B&O Warehouse.