Mayo was frustrated at his inability to drive the baseball early in the year, but has been dominant since a discussion with coaches: He's hit 12 home runs with a scalding 1.206 OPS in 36 games.
Cowser has taken Triple-A Norfolk by storm this season. In the previous 56 games he played, Cowser hit .330 with a .996 on-base-plus-slugging percentage.
The Orioles have now lost six of their last seven games, with the Yankees now only two games behind the Orioles for second place in the American League East.
Tyler Wells was great for the Orioles except — and you may have heard this before — for giving up home runs. Then, the bullpen could not close out the game as Harrison Bader hit a towering 3-run home run to give New York a 6-3 win.
Rutschman, who grew up in Oregon, saw his first MLB game in Seattle. Now he’ll return there to partake in the most popular part of All-Star festivities.
The Rangers dealt for Aroldis Chapman on Friday. We will have to see if the Orioles make a move for a reliever or stick with the pitchers they have now.
The Orioles have lost four in a row for the first time this season after Minnesota's victory before the second-largest crowd at Camden Yards this year.
For all of the praise Mike Elias, Brandon Hyde and the Orioles' decision-makers heaped on Ortiz over the last year, when it came time to win games, they went with someone else.