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.
“He cares a lot about the process, the learning process, especially,” Kyle Hamilton said of new head coach Jesse Minter. “... He explains it in a very elementary way that kind of can become a master’s level once we get to camp and the beginning of the season.”
After Nathan Church’s two-out, two-run homer off Nationals reliever Gus Varland tied the game in the eighth, an announced crowd of 20,036 offered mostly groans.
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.”
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said it has accepted a two-week ceasefire and that it would negotiate with the United States in Islamabad beginning Friday.
Bassem Mroue, Jon Gambrell and Samy Magdy, Associated Press
Xfinity customers in Baltimore and millions of subscribers nationwide lost access to 40 broadcasting stations after Comcast, which owns Xfinity, and broadcasting company E. W. Scripps failed to reach an agreement over access to programming.
A black banner hangs over the border crossing and portraits of Iran’s slain Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei stare down, promising vengeance against the United States and Israel. But on the 12-hour drive south to the capital, Tehran, daily life continues, with only occasional signs of the ongoing war, including a Shiite religious center that officials say was damaged by a recent airstrike. Associated Press reporters made the journey on Saturday after crossing into Iran from Turkey. They gained a glimpse of the country at the center of a regional war that has jolted the world economy and shows no sign of ending.