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The Orioles will purchase the contract of veteran infielder/outfielder Bill Hall today and place him on the club's 25- and 40-man rosters in order to fill the loss of right fielder Nick Markakis, according to a club source. Markakis, who will be placed on the DL for the first time in his major league career, is having surgery to remove a broken hamate bone in his right wrist and is slated to be out between two-to-four weeks. Hall, 32, gives the Orioles some positional flexibility, something they will need with just two healthy true outfielders  -- Adam Jones and Endy Chavez -- currently on the 25-man roster. Ryan Flaherty and Wilson Betemit have also played outfield this season.

ST. PETERSBURG, FLA - The loss of right fielder Nick Markakis leaves manager Buck Showalter with yet another glaring hole to fill in the lineup. And Friday night's lineup against the Tampa Bay Rays didn't look like one of a team playing to stay in first place in the American League East. But with eight players on the disabled list, filling out the lineup has required more spontaneous creativity from Showalter. Friday's featured Steve Tolleson , usually a utility infielder, in left field for his first start there in his big-league career.

The Orioles have activated infielder Mark Reynolds off the disabled list and replaced him on the DL with right-handed reliever Stu Pomeranz. Pomeranz, who had begun to provide some long-relief stability to the Orioles bullpen, strained his left oblique while warming up in the bullpen in Sunday's game against Kansas City. Reynolds, who went on the DL with an oblique strain May 12, played two games of a minor league rehab assignment at Double-A Bowie, going 1-for-7 with four strikeouts.

The Orioles are starting to get back some of their key players from the disabled list, but it seems like there's another injury looming at every turn. The good news Monday was that infielder Mark Reynolds (oblique strain) was activated from the disabled list and started the team's series opener against the Blue Jays at Rogers Centre. Outfielder Endy Chavez (intercostal strain) was en route to Toronto to join the club. He's scheduled to be activated Tuesday. Both Reynolds and Chavez were on minor league rehab assignments in Double-A Bowie.

Orioles rookie right-handed reliever Stu Pomeranz is likely headed to the disabled list after injuring himself while preparing to enter Sunday's game in the top of the seventh inning. He had thrown seven or eight fastballs in the bullpen, before feeling a searing pain in his left side while throwing his first breaking ball. "Something popped up in my ribs," said Pomeranz, who is staying behind in Baltimore to have an MRI at 10 a.m. Monday. The Orioles are initially calling the injury a strained left oblique, and a 15-day disabled list stint is probable, Buck Showalter said.

The Orioles just finished their tough nine-game homestand by going 4-5. There were some obvious cracks that formed this past week-plus. The starters put up a 6.75 ERA before Wei-Yin Chen twirled an impressive two-run, seven-inning performance against the New York Yankees on Tuesday night. The Orioles' defense has been shoddy - the most errors committed in the AL. And injuries are mounting. Left fielders Nolan Reimold and Endy Chavez are on the disabled list. So is third baseman Mark Reynolds and reliever Matt Lindstrom.

The Orioles revolving door kept spinning again on Saturday afternoon. Veteran Bill Hall has been called up from Triple-A Norfolk and is in the lineup batting seventh and playing left field Saturday night. Meanwhile, third baseman Mark Reynolds is heading to the disabled list for the first time in his career. He said he suffered an oblique injury making a throw during batting practice Friday. He said it's not severe, but he doesn't want to keep playing and let it get worse. “I hurt my oblique yesterday, and it's not too bad, but it's one of those things where if I push it, it'll get worse, so we're going to get it better before anything else happens," said Reynolds, who has hit .191 with two homers and nine RBIs in 27 games.

The Orioles continue to make roster moves at a dizzying pace, the latest occurring Saturday afternoon when third baseman Mark Reynolds was placed on the disabled list with a strained oblique. To replace Reynolds on the 25-man roster, the Orioles purchased the contract of veteran infielder-outfielder Bill Hall and immediately inserted him into left field and in the seventh spot of the starting lineup against the Tampa Bay Rays. Hall, who was signed last month after failing to make the New York Yankees out of spring training, was not on the 40-man roster, so the Orioles had to make a corresponding move.

The Orioles have placed right-handed reliever Matt Lindstrom on the disabled list with a right middle finger injury in order to make space on the 25-man roster for tonight's starter, left-hander Dana Eveland. Eveland's contract was purchased from Triple-A Norfolk, and the Orioles designated minor-leaguer Zelous Wheeler for assignment in a corresponding 40-man roster move. Lindstrom allowed his first earned runs of the season in the second game of Thursday's doubleheader (3 runs, two earned, in one inning)

Needing to make room on the roster for Friday's starter Dana Eveland , the Orioles decided to place reliever Matt Lindstrom on the 15-day disabled list with a right middle finger injury. Orioles manager Buck Showalter said after the game that Lindstrom's injury is being classified as a ligament sprain at this time. But the club hopes to get him a MRI on the finger Saturday. The belief was that the Orioles might have place a pitcher on the disabled list , but that conjecture surrounded starter Jason Hammel , who is dealing with a sore knee.