Frederick Keys

Top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy has been named to the Carolina League All-Star Game despite pitching in just three games for High-A Frederick. He will be joined by two Keys teammates: Ty Kelly, who will start at third base, and Jeremy Nowak, who was named as a reserve outfielder. The 19-year-old Bundy is 2-1 with a 3.00 ERA in three games after a promotion from Low-A Delmarva. For the Keys, Bundy has allowed five runs on 13 hits and four walks in 15 innings pitched. Last year's first-round pick of the Orioles (fourth overall)

For 10 weeks, the Frederick Keys were Dylan Bundy's stewards. The Orioles' High-A affiliate was charged with bringing along the 19-year-old's arm and delivering him to Double-A Bowie in better shape than he arrived, a transaction that is expected to be made with all stipulations met before Game 1 of the Baysox's doubleheader Tuesday. The Orioles invested more in Bundy than they have in any other pitcher, and the right-hander came to Frederick in late May after posting utterly goofy numbers during his stint in Low-A Delmarva (30 innings, no earned runs, five hits, and 40 strikeouts in eight starts)

A proposed sale of assets between Prestige Cable TV Inc. and Frederick Cablevision Inc. may give Carroll residents an opportunity to see Frederick Keys games on television.The proposal came late Wednesday night at a meeting of Mount Airy's cable committee, during a discussion of Prestige selling its cables, amplifiers and other equipment in the town to Frederick Cablevision.The two companies began negotiating about three weeks ago when the Frederick company began laying cable under the Mount Airy franchise it received in July.

Top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy has been named to the Carolina League All-Star Game despite pitching in just three games for High-A Frederick. He will be joined by two Keys teammates: Ty Kelly, who will start at third base, and Jeremy Nowak, who was named as a reserve outfielder. The 19-year-old Bundy is 2-1 with a 3.00 ERA in three games after a promotion from Low-A Delmarva. For the Keys, Bundy has allowed five runs on 13 hits and four walks in 15 innings pitched. Last year's first-round pick of the Orioles (fourth overall)

DURHAM, N.C. -- Right-hander Matt Murray, 20, threw six innings of two-hit, shutout ball to lead the Durham Bulls to a 4-0 win over the Frederick Keys last night in the season opener for both clubs.Murray (1-0) retired the first eight batters he faced, striking out four, before Keys second baseman Tony Beasley reached on a bunt single in the third inning. Murray then retired nine in a row, a string that ended when center fielder Damon Buford tripled in the sixth.Keys starter Chuck Ricci (0-1)

FREDERICK -- The luxury of having success throughout a club's farm system is that no team at any level gets shortchanged the next season.Take the Single-A Frederick Keys. Six prominent members of Delmarva's South Atlantic League champions -- Ryan Minor, Calvin Pickering and pitchers Ryan Kohlmeier, Scott Eibey, Gabe Molina and Maximo Heredia -- bypassed the Keys and jumped directly to Double-A Bowie this year.With those players, the Keys might have been a Carolina League powerhouse. Even without them, Frederick doesn't figure to do too badly.

Only a few steps are taken through the main gate at Harry Grove Stadium when the first reminder greets its visitors. The standings from the Carolina League are posted on a concourse wall, in print large enough to be seen from the parking lot. To find the Frederick Keys in the first half, it was necessary to scan all the way to the bottom. Logic says this should be a depressing place for the Orioles' high Single-A affiliate to play its home games. If not for the cicadas earlier this summer, the sound of crickets chirping would have seemed a more appropriate soundtrack.

FREDERICK -- Bubba Carpenter, Andy Fox and Paul Oster homered, as the Prince William Cannons defeated the Frederick Keys, 8-3, last night in a Class A Carolina League game.

FREDERICK -- Yesterday's scheduled doubleheader between the Frederick Keys and the Wilmington Blue Rocks was rained out.The games probably will not be made up because the teams don't face each other again before the end of the season's first half, which is June 20.

SALEM, Va. -- The Frederick Keys used four home runs and a four-run seventh inning to defeat Salem, 11-8, in the Carolina League opener for both teams last night. Bryan Link and Billy Owens each had three hits for the Keys. Catcher B.J. Waszgis hit a three run homer in the Keys' seventh.

Dylan Bundy might be the future of the Orioles' rotation, but the future is now for the High-A Frederick Keys, who have pulled out all the stops for the 2011 first-round pick's Carolina League debut Saturday night against the Salem Red Sox. The team opened the gates to Harry Grove Stadium early after a sparsely attended concert by the Milkshakes, a local Grammy-nominated children's group, and with about 45 minutes remaining before the first pitch,...

1 Spoiling for a fight: The spoiler thing didn't go so well against the Rays, but now the Orioles head to Boston to give it another try. The first of three against the Red Sox is tonight (7 on MASN2). 2 Let's play two: They're not being paid, so it shouldn't matter that college football players are working on Labor Day. ESPN has a doubleheader starting at 4 p.m. - Fresno State at Rutgers and Tennessee at UCLA. 3 Movin' on up: If the White Sox's Jim Thome (left) hits a homer tonight against the Indians, it would be No. 537, breaking a tie with Mickey Mantle and taking sole possession of 14th place on the all-time home run list.

FREDERICK -- He towers over his peers but moves so fluidly that you hardly notice. His easy swing produces thunderous home runs to the opposite field. He maintains a relaxed grin as he signs autographs for lines of fans who probably couldn't name most of his teammates. The Orioles knew Matt Wieters was an advanced prospect when they drafted the catcher and signed him to a team-record $6 million bonus last summer. But the former Georgia Tech athlete has exceeded even their expectations in his professional debut, laying waste to the Single-A Carolina League as the No. 3 hitter for the Frederick Keys.

Andy MacPhail isn't promising any miraculous turnarounds in the Orioles' minor league system this season, but the president of baseball operations is guaranteeing that the team's future players "will get a lot of attention." MacPhail said: "I don't think there's anything more important to this franchise than to start to have a reliable supply of players come up through our system. We are going to do what we can to be as good at that as we can." MacPhail believes the Orioles are at a point where "it's more than just talking.

FREDERICK -- When the wind is right, the national anthem drifts from Harry Grove Stadium to a crypt in Mount Olivet Cemetery, where Francis Scott Key is buried. Key, who died in 1843, certainly never envisioned that his poem, "The Star-Spangled Banner," would be set to music and played at the beginning of baseball games everywhere.

Only a few steps are taken through the main gate at Harry Grove Stadium when the first reminder greets its visitors. The standings from the Carolina League are posted on a concourse wall, in print large enough to be seen from the parking lot. To find the Frederick Keys in the first half, it was necessary to scan all the way to the bottom. Logic says this should be a depressing place for the Orioles' high Single-A affiliate to play its home games. If not for the cicadas earlier this summer, the sound of crickets chirping would have seemed a more appropriate soundtrack.

FREDERICK -- Sean Hugo drove in three runs and Rocky Coppinger allowed two hits over seven inning, leading the Frederick Keys to a 5-1 win over the Lynchburg Hill Cats in a Carolina League game last night.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Kenneth Warner went 3-for-4 with four RBIs to lead the Durham Bulls to a 9-5 victory over the Frederick Keys yesterday in a Single-A Carolina League game. Frederick fell to 3-7.

This week's question What's the best part of Ravens training camp? Autographs Getting close to the players It means the season is starting soon The food and attractions Watching practice Last week's question We asked which local baseball team's games you most enjoy attending, and IronBirds fans showed they like polls as much as they like baseball. 80.3 percent Aberdeen IronBirds (179 votes) 11.2 percent Baltimore Orioles (25 votes) 4 percent Bowie Baysox (9 votes) 4 percent Frederick Keys (9 votes)

Frederick Keys tickets offered at TownMall TownMall of Westminster is holding a Father's Day promotion with the Frederick Keys through June 15. Shoppers who present $50 in receipts from mall merchants will receive two free Frederick Keys minor-league baseball tickets at the customer service counter. Tickets are limited to one pair per family while supplies last. Children can visit the mall with their fathers from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday for a Father's Day event. Two Frederick Keys players and the team mascot Keyote will be on hand for autographs.