Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The Pirates spoil the Orioles' Spring Training home opener with an 18-hit attack.
The Pittsburgh Pirates may have been the visiting team on Monday night, but they felt right at home at Ed Smith Stadium on Monday night, beating the Baltimore Orioles 10-3. The victory came amid an 18-hit attack that got some help from Orioles fielding miscues during the split squad game. A crowd of 6,228 saw the Orioles give up runs in each of the first five innings as designated hitter Matt Hague drove in two with a homer to left field in the third inning and left fielder Alex Presley went 4-for-4, including an infield single that resulted in two unearned runs due to an errant throw. The Orioles squeezed out a run in the bottom of the first on a two-out single to left field and an error by Pirate right fielder Starling Marte, who dropped…
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Monday, March 5, 2012
Smiles abounded as Orioles fans waited for Ed Smith Stadium's gates to open.
Curtis Gallagher felt right at home waiting outside Ed Smith Stadium on Monday afternoon. Clutching tickets to the Baltimore Orioles' Opening Night in Sarasota, and waiting with his wife, Amanda, and grandparents, David and Regina Splain, he said the facility reminds him of Oriole Park at Camden Yards. As for the weather, “It's definitely better than Baltimore,” he said. Amanda agreed that the stadium reminds her of the famed ballpark in Baltimore, given that the seats actually came from Camden Yards, but noted the lack of a warehouse along the right field line. The Splains have lived in Port Charlotte for about two years, and are just getting into baseball in Florida. Baseball fans began to gather outside the home plate entrance about a …
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Baltimore Orioles will take the field for its Spring Training Home Opener today in Sarasota's Ed Smith Stadium
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Monday, March 5, 2012
The Birds are back for another Spring Training home opener at Ed Smith Stadium, squaring off against the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. The Orioles announced special events and plans for Opening Day in Sarasota, which can be found below. For a complete guide to Spring Training in Sarasota, read Baltimore Orioles 2012 Spring Training Guide. On Monday and throughout the season, ballpark gates will open two hours prior to the scheduled first pitch. All fans will receive a 2012 spring training magnet schedule presented by the Sarasota Convention & Visitors Bureau and the first 1,000 female fans in attendance will receive a Bird of Paradise flower courtesy of Beneva Flowers. FIRST PITCH Orioles Hall of Famer and current Special Assistant to the …
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Sunday, February 26, 2012
Spring training in Florida has had a colorful history with the temptations of the warm climate for players and temptations of cash for owners.
The Florida Grapefruit League, otherwise known as the annual baseball spring training ritual, has been a part of the history and tradition of central Florida for more than 120 years. According to numerous history accounts, including a Florida publication, Spring Training Online: “Spring training is almost as old as baseball itself. The best evidence points to spring training first taking place in 1870, when the Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Chicago White Stockings held organized baseball camps in New Orleans… Other baseball historians argue that the Washington Capitals of the National League pioneered spring training in 1888, holding a four-day camp in Jacksonville.” Above and beyond the obvious fact that February in Florida is a whole…
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Friday, February 24, 2012
The history of Baltimore baseball goes back 130 years. This year much of the Orioles history is not taking place on the field as much as the personnel – and physical changes - in the operations center
Last Sunday, the Baltimore Orioles pitchers began the annual two-month spring training ritual at the Ed Smith Stadium and the rest of their teammates take to the field today. When this Maryland writer arrived last Saturday in Sarasota, the temperatures were unseasonably warm, but certainly not as warm as the hot seat Buck Showalter, the 55-year-old DeFuniak Springs, Florida native and returning Orioles manager must be feeling. The following day when the pitchers and catchers took to the field, dark skies and rain followed — a combination coupled with that warm Saturday seems to be the regular forecast pattern for the O's this season. Showalter, the two-time American League Manager of the Year, who took over the helm of the ailing Birds on …
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The Baltimore Orioles's 2012 Spring Training in Sarasota goes full steam starting today at Ed Smith Stadium.
The Birds are officially back in town. The rest of the 40-man roster from the Baltimore Orioles report today after pitchers and catchers had started their workouts Sunday at Ed Smith Stadium. The Orioles have been in Sarasota for 28 months now and will be here for at least 30 years. Here's your guide to Spring Training in Sarasota. The first home game is March 5 against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Workout and Practice Schedule Workouts start at approximately 9:15 a.m. and will last until approximately 12:30 p.m. until games begin on March 5. Today, workouts will start at noon. Minor league players will have practices at Twin Lakes Park's Buck O'Neil Sports Complex, 6700 Clark Road. Pitchers and catchers workouts at Buck O'Neil begin March 5. …
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Baltimore Orioles' renovation of its Baseball Operations Center is nearly complete, readying for players to report this week.
When the Baltimore Orioles train in Sarasota, they'll be doing so in style at the team's new Baseball Operations Center. The 43,000-square-foot building is about one and a half times the size of the old building and features just about everything a pro ball player will need. It's located beside Ed Smith Stadium. Hydrotherapy pools, hot and cold baths, a fully stocked kitchen, exercise room and more. Throughout the operations center, there are touches of Orioles' history. They include retired numbers, such as one signed by Earl Weaver, logos, and images of Spring Training past in Miami and Daytona Beach and even the Arizona years. When the Orioles defeated the Cincinatti Reds for the 1970 World Series, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Jim …
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Baltimore Orioles pitchers and catchers report to Sarasota's Ed Smith Stadium on Sunday to begin Spring Training.
1. The boys are back in town on Sunday. The Baltimore Orioles' first day of Spring Training starts with Pitchers and Catchers Day at Ed Smith Stadium. Workouts will last from 9:15 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m. Practices and workouts are free and open to the public. The full squad will join them on Feb. 24. The Orioles' first home game is March 5 against the Pittsburgh Pirates at 7:05 p.m. It is a split squad game with other players traveling to Port Charlotte for a 1:05 p.m. match against the Tampa Bay Rays. 2. Ringling Museum's new and expansive exhibit, Peter Paul Rubens: Impressions of a Master opens today. The Rubens Galleries inside Ringling's Searing Wing feature pieces on loan from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, the Belgian city…
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The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
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Former Sarasota Police Department Station
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Charles Schelle
9:01 am on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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