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BALTIMORE — Dylan Bundy pitched six effective innings to earn his fourth straight victory, Trey Mancini homered and drove in three runs, and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox 6-5 on Saturday night. Manny Machado hit his team-leading eighth home run for the Orioles, who will seek to complete a three-game sweep on Sunday. Bundy (5-1) allowed three runs and six hits, walking one and striking out three. The right-hander is tied for the major league lead in wins and has pitched at least six innings in each of his seven starts. Bundy left with a 6-3 lead, and the bullpen made it stand up -- barely. Mychal Givens surrendered a two-run homer to Jose Abreu in the eighth before Darren O'Day Continue to Article

May 06, 2017 11:27:pm EST

BALTIMORE Dylan Covey has looked a lot like youd expect a Rule 5 starting pitcher to at the major league level. While the White Sox rookie has sporadically offered glimpses of his talent, he also looks like a pitcher who entered this season with only six starts above Single-A. Covey experienced another round of struggles against a deep Baltimore Orioles lineup on Saturday night as the White Sox lost 6-5 in front of 28,718 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards. The right-hander allowed six earned runs and 10 hits in four-plus innings for the White Sox, who need a win on Sunday to avoid a series sweep. Continue to Article

May 06, 2017 11:07:pm EST

Consider how quickly Manny Machado went from wunderkind of the diamond to baseball bad-boy in just a few years time. Machado has had a few issues in the past — mainly that time in 2014 when he threw his bat toward third base after a couple of brush-back pitches against the Oakland A’s. Once Machado found himself at the center of baseball drama this week, as the Boston Red Sox and Baltimore Orioles cranked things up to rap beef-level. Continue to Article

May 06, 2017 10:54:am EST

DETROIT (WXYZ) - From Little League to the Major Leagues, baseball demands fair play. But lately that appears to be principle confined to the field. Our national pastime is once again at the center of a national debate in America. Earlier this week, Adam Jones of the Baltimore Orioles condemned fans in Boston for using the n-word. Now some are crying foul at Comerica Park. “I felt unwanted. I felt humiliated,” says Palesa Matinde, who says she was denied service at Comerica Park. “I felt treated like a second-class citizen." Matinde is a University of Michigan graduate from Zimbabwe. She went to a Tigers’ game last week with her husband. They decided to check out Miller's Pitcher's Pub inside Continue to Article

May 06, 2017 4:15:am EST