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The U.S. men's national team will face Australia at 3 p.m. June 19 in its second World Cup match.

The Nationals fell to 12-21 at home with their 10-2 loss.

Gunnar Henderson hit a capping homer in a 7-3 blistering of San Diego starter Griffin Canning, giving the Orioles their third straight win.

COLUMN | Craig Albernaz holds Samuel Basallo to a high standard and hasn’t always waited for private moments to do so. It’s not about Albernaz, but he certainly knows that turning Basallo into a consistent, high-level catcher would reflect well on him and his staff, and make the Orioles good for a decade.

COLUMN | There's much we don't know about the Ravens, but the trend is promising.

COLUMN | Tyler Loop may feel emotionally healed from a dramatic failure in Pittsburgh, but that’s not enough reassurance for the Ravens to make him the unquestioned starter.

“Timing is everything,” said Andrew Mintze, a Baltimore man who is taking paid time off to play for the DC Defenders in the United Bowl. “If you’re going to spend it, you spend it at the right time.”

Rutschman’s stat line in his first start of the homestand: 2-for-3 with a double, single, walk and three RBIs.

COLUMN | Leody Taveras' .726 OPS for the season is good value for an Orioles team that has needed everything he does on and off the field.

The World Cup will kick off on Thursday when Mexico and South Africa face off in Group A, and finish on July 19 with the championship match.

Jackson Holliday’s grand slam punctuates an Orioles victory at Camden Yards.

Bryce Eldridge’s slam lifts the Giants to an 11-10 win after they trailed 9-1.

“I’m being challenged right now,” Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson said at mandatory minicamp Wednesday. “It’s a new system [with] a lot of terminology within this system."

“My process hasn’t broken,” Loop said. “There may have been a hiccup or something that went wrong. And you need to be able to look at that, address it and then say, all right, I’m good.”

Jesse Minter, Lamar Jackson, Kyle Hamilton and Tyler Loop all spoke after minicamp practice Wednesday.

COLUMN | Just because the Orioles have demonstrated time and time again that they won’t stay down long, that doesn’t change the reality that all of this takes a toll.

Thousands of fans packed Laurel Park for the 151st Preakness Stakes, where black-eyed Susans, bold fashion and Maryland staples such as crab cakes fueled the party as protesters rally outside and Gov. Wes Moore joined the crowd.

COLUMN | What, exactly, is the role of the Maryland Racing Commission, the sport’s regulatory authority responsible for overseeing track management decisions, when its boss — the state — runs the show?

Just like no two players are the same, no two ways to break in a glove are the same.

Washington improved to 23-13 on the road and clinched its second series win of their West Coast road trip.