To replace O’Neill on the active roster, Baltimore recalled outfielder Johnathan Rodríguez, whom the Orioles acquired last month in a trade with the Cleveland Guardians.
The Orioles won Saturday’s game by the comfort of a 6-2 score against the Giants, with Coby Mayo’s eighth-inning RBI allowing them to secure a win without the need for a save for the first time this season.
After a spring of analyzing how Adley Rutschman should set up behind the plate, manager Craig Albernaz, catching coach Joe Singley and Rutschman settled on his right knee being in the dirt for the first time ever.
Ward finished with four hits for the second time in his career — and second time this season — and became the first Orioles player to record nine doubles in an eight-game span.
Colton Cowser said he’s seeing more changeups because he’s not producing against them. “You start hitting them,” he said, “it’s going to start to shift back the other way.”
“It’s swollen pretty good,” manager Craig Albernaz said, “so yesterday he went to the hospital and got some IVs with antibiotics. It’s crazy. I’m not sure what happened. But his foot is pretty gnarly.”
After Diosdado Buton Nuñeza’s death in October 2024, Garcia grappled with a future in baseball that didn’t include his grandfather. But a way to honor Nuñeza came to him before the 2025 season.
Baltimore’s first-time skipper was ejected for the first time in his major league career in the third inning Sunday as bad went to worse for the Orioles.