Saturday Bird Droppings

Breathe it in, folks. The air always seems to smell a little sweeter the morning after a win against the Red Sox...or maybe that's waffles. In any case, that was a pretty solid win.

PressBox: Orioles Top Red Sox In Divisional Showdown A nice breakdown of last night's clinic.

Red Sox need to solve their problems against Orioles - Sports - The Boston Globe It still amazes me to read stuff like this. And this.

School of Roch: Showalter on Davis: "Chris will be a productive hitter for us again" Funk officially acknowledged.

Kevin Gausman is now Orioles' top prospect, according to MLB.com's new rankings - baltimoresun.com Jonathan Mayo came out with his mid-season prospect rankings. We talked about this in yesterday's ATM, but it looks like Eduardo Rodriguez is pretty much becoming a consensus top 100 prospect.

Schoop talks rehab, Mancini and Yastrzemski talk pro debuts | Baltimore Sports and Life Schoop is back on track. Could a late season promotion be in the cards?

Yankees ink Brendan Harris to minor league contract | HardballTalk Sorry, daveh.

The biggest comebacks in the wild-card era - Baseball Nation Please note the presence of Orioles Magic.

On this day in 1973, Jim Palmer's no no bid was broken up in the 8th, but he cruised to a 9-0 victory over the Tribe, anyways.

It's the birthday of O's Hall of Famer Rich Dauer, cult classic Floyd "Sugar Bear" Rayford and a man who needs no introduction, Ryan Flaherty.