BALTIMORE -- As deflating as their first half was, the Baltimore Orioles might have preferred to have just kept playing after Sunday, rather than dispersing to different parts of the country for their all-star break. Instead, all the momentum they had built in a four-game sweep of the Texas Rangers ...

Toronto Blue Jays pitcher Brandon Morrow works against the Chicago White Sox in front of a sparse crowd at the Rogers Centre during a baseball game in Toronto on Wednesday, April 14, 2010. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Darren Calabrese) (Darren Calabrese - AP) Two fans watch from the upper deck duri...

The good news was there was no ninth-inning implosion that left the Orioles lamenting another victory that got away. But in some respects, their 3-0 loss last night before 21,148 at Camden Yards was more galling because they were completely shut down by a well-traveled pitcher, who the Toronto Blue ...

TORONTO, May 3 -- Scott Richmond is giving the Toronto Blue Jays a lot more than they expected from their fifth starter. Richmond worked seven innings, Vernon Wells and Alex Rios backed him with home runs and Toronto completed a three-game sweep by beating Baltimore, 4-3, on Sunday. The Orioles hav...

The Toronto Blue Jays fired J. P. Ricciardi on Saturday, ending his eight-year tenure as the club’s general manager. Ricciardi, who joined the Blue Jays in 2001, had one year left on his contract.