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By Dan Connolly and The Baltimore Sun | May 15, 2012
Orioles rookie left-hander Wei-Yin Chen had passed all the early tests, facing good major league teams, pitching well, showing poise and not once getting saddled with a loss in his first six big league starts. Tuesday, however, presented a different challenge. Chen wouldn't just be pitching against the mighty New York Yankees, but he would be seeing them for the second time -- his first repeat performance against an opponent. Like the rest of this early season for the Taiwan native, Chen had little trouble, throwing seven strong innings in the Orioles' 5-2 victory.
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Peter Schmuck | May 5, 2012
It might be too soon to proclaim that the Orioles have returned to respectability in the American League East, but it's not too soon to take notice of the rapidly changing landscape in baseball's toughest division. The Orioles have held their own against the Toronto Blue Jays, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox during the early weeks of the season - 9-5 after Saturday's victory at Fenway Park - and are off to a very encouraging start. The only team looking down on them in the standings is Tampa Bay, as the Rays continue to defy the conventional wisdom that you have to pay to play in this neighborhood.
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By Jeff Barker, The Baltimore Sun | May 5, 2012
For years, Orioles fans have had an almost primitive response to being outnumbered in their own stadium by thousands of visiting fans who root, root, root for the Red Sox or Yankees. To the home fans, it is as if invaders are threatening the castle. Later this month, the Orioles will host the Yankees and Red Sox. Yankees fans will sport "Jeter" jerseys, and Boston backers will wear "Ortiz" jerseys and chant "Let's go Red Sox!" Feeling protective of their territory, Orioles fans will want to remind them that this is Camden Yards, hon, not Fenway Park.
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By Dan Connolly | May 2, 2012
NEW YORK - On Opening Day at Camden Yards, Oriolesstarter Jake Arrieta talked about setting the tone for the season with a quality start. A month later at Yankee Stadium, it was Arrieta continuing to follow the lead of his rotation-mates, throwing eight shutout innings in a 5-0 win over the New York Yankees in what has become an impressive and, frankly, unexpected run of starting pitching. Surprising, apparently, to everyone but those wearing orange and black. “Those guys have great stuff and great ability,” said Orioles catcher Matt Wieters, whose fourth-inning homer gave his team all the offense it would need.
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By Dan Connolly and The Baltimore Sun | May 1, 2012
By the end of Tuesday night, Orioles manager Buck Showalter had reached the 1,000-win milestone, left-hander Brian Matusz had sidestepped club infamy and designated hitter Nick Johnson had finally exhaled in a 7-1 victory over the New York Yankees. It was literally a time for popping the champagne corks and offering a toast -- which was done in the visitors' clubhouse after the game as a tribute to Showalter, who became the 58th big league manager to win 1,000 games in his career.
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By Dan Connolly | April 30, 2012
NEW YORK - As smoothly as this early season has started for the Orioles, they know they'll never be considered serious threats in the American League East if they can't beat the New York Yankees. On Monday, in their first trip to new Yankee Stadium this season, the red-hot Orioles once again received an outstanding pitching performance from Jason Hammel, but couldn't score for him in a 2-1 defeat - their third loss by two runs or fewer to the Bronx Bombers this season.