The move will all but eliminate waivers or redshirt years for extended eligibility, except for religious missions, maternity leave or active-duty military service. No longer will extensions be considered for athletes who are injured.
Over the last 30 games, the Orioles have won 15 of the 22 games in which the team’s starting pitcher has completed at least five innings and surrendered three or fewer earned runs.
Alexander was lifted from the game in the third inning. That’s when Baltimore put outfielder Leody Taveras at the hot corner, a position he has never played before.
Griffin threw 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball, striking out nine and issuing zero walks. He was aggressive and precise — 70% of his pitches were strikes — keeping the Phillies off-balance all night.
Young is a four-time All-Star who was sidelined by injuries for most of this past season, averaging just 17.9 points — more than seven points per game below his career average — in only 15 games with Atlanta and Washington.
Alexander, a member of a baseball-obsessed family, first felt the childhood wonder of this game by running around with his older brother and sister, CJ and Sloane, and all the other neighborhood kids.
When M&T Bank Stadium missed out on hosting World Cup matches, Baltimore missed out on a boom of foreign visitors. But as other cities have learned, the economics of hosting doesn't always make sense.
As the dust settles on the Orioles’ matchup with the best team in baseball, there is no forgetting the ninth-inning issues of Friday and Saturday. But overshadowing those blips were two good outings and one great one from starting pitchers and a series of strong offensive showings.
No one has asked more of his bullpen this season than Blake Butera. And on Saturday, after Cade Cavalli could complete only 2 2/3 innings, he asked for more.
World Cup fans have flooded social media with complaints about tickets that never arrived, orders that were canceled at the last minute and hours they spent trying to sort out problems between FIFA’s ticketing system and outside resale platforms.