World Champions 1983, 1970, 1966 American League Champions 1983, 1979, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1966 American League East Division Champions 2014, 1997, 1983, 1979, 1974, 1973, 1971, 1970, 1969 American League Wild Card 2012, 1996 Friday, July 10, 2015 Columns: Orioles, Nationals bring plenty of history to regional rivalry The Sun 7/10 Leftovers on Orioles reliever Chaz Roe The Sun 7/10 Chaz Roe's long baseball journey leads to Baltimore The Sun 7/9 Orioles officially release Delmon Young, Nolan Reimold reinstated The Sun 7/9 Adam Jones to start All-Star Game for third straight year The Sun 7/9 Orioles to celebrate 20th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr.'s 2,131st consecutive game The Sun 7/9 Nats, Orioles to meet in Beltways battle MLB.com 7/10 Jones to start in All-Star Game MLB.com 7/9 O's reveal Ripken Jr. celebration plans MLB.com 7/9 Tonight's game and random notes MASNsports.com 7/10 Orioles release Delmon Young and reinstate Nolan Reimold MASNsports.com 7/9 Nats starter vs. Orioles, All-Star note, updates on Wright and Garcia (updated) MASNsports.com 7/9 How big is the series against the Nationals for Orioles fans? 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The combination of geographical proximity, two-sided competitive excellence (at least over the past few years) and the seemingly endless television rights litigation has infused the annual Beltway Series with plenty of passion and intrigue. It is a rivalry, after all, with roots that sink much deeper than the recent configuration of the two baseball teams. Baltimore and Washington have been competing with each other for a couple of centuries now, and each has its own Washington Monument to prove it. For the record, the monument in Mount Vernon came first and is a lot prettier than that big pointy thing on the National Mall. Baltimore's took just 14 years to build and was completed in 1829. It took 48 years to finish the one in D.C., or about the same length of time that the Nationals/Expos franchise has existed without appearing in a World Series. So much for your ancient history lesson. Here's a capsulized look at how the Orioles and Nationals organizations compare as they get ready to begin their 10th year of interleague competition. The decade in review: The Nationals began playing in Washington in 2005 but did not start facing the Orioles in interleague play until the following year. Since then, the Orioles have won 29 of the 50 regular-season games between the franchises. The Orioles have been particularly dominant during the Buck Showalter era, winning seven of the past nine games and going 13-7 since the start of 2011. The Nationals have won the season series only once, when they took four of six games in 2007, even though have won more regular-season games overall since the start of the 2006 season (737-723). The stadiums: Oriole Park was an instant classic when it opened in 1992 and changed stadium architecture forever. The designers of Nationals Park apparently didn't get the memo and created a nice, modern ballpark along the Anacostia waterfront that doesn't come up in a lot of conversations about baseball's great cathedrals. It does, however, look terrific in the opening credits of "House of Cards," a Netflix series about Washington that is mostly filmed in Baltimore. Yes, even the baseball scenes. The young superstars: Each team features one of the brightest young stars in the sport. Orioles third baseman Manny Machado won the Platinum Glove a couple of years ago as the best defensive player in the American League and is having a career year at the plate. Bryce Harper has overcome a long series of bad haircuts to put himself in the Triple Crown conversation this season. And with Giancarlo Stanton on the shelf with a wrist injury, he just might win it. The payrolls: The Orioles and Nationals had very similar Opening Day payrolls when both reached the playoffs in 2012. Since then, the Nationals have increased their payroll substantially each year and entered the 2015 season with a payroll nearing $165 million. The Orioles also have stepped up their spending, but opened this season — according to Associated Press payroll estimates — more than $50 million behind the Nationals. From 2013 through the end of this season, the Nationals will have spent about $100 million more than the Orioles on player salaries, but Washington has won just two more games (229-227, including playoffs) over that period and the Orioles went further in the postseason last year. The pitchers: The Orioles have remained very competitive during the Showalter era without a true ace in their rotation. The Nationals have all sorts of front-line pitching talent and spent $210 million to add free-agent Max Scherzer last winter. Scherzer has been phenomenal, pitching a no-hitter and fashioning a 2.12 ERA through the first half of the season after going 39-8 in his previous two seasons with the Detroit Tigers. Strangely enough, he hasn't been quite as dominant against the Orioles. He's 3-1 against them with a 3.92 ERA in regular-season play and gave up five runs over 7 1/3 innings in a loss to the Orioles in last year's American League Division Series. Still, it'll be a break for the Orioles if the Nationals defer to the All-Star Game and decide not to start Scherzer on Sunday. The managers: Showalter is coming off a 2014 season that garnered him his third Baseball Writers' Association of America Manager of the Year award and recently steered the Orioles into first place in the AL East during a red-hot June. Of course, that was before they were struck by The Curse of the Buck Showalter Garden Gnome. Since the rain makeup game that included that popular promotional item, the Orioles have lost eight of 10 games and have lost three straight series. Matt Williams could have warned Buck about that. After the San Francisco Giants distributed a Williams throwback bobblehead in 2007, the club lost 13 of its next 18 games. Williams actually has a better winning percentage than Showalter since the start of 2014 (.577 to .562), in spite of the Orioles' 6-2 head-to-head record against the Nationals. The MASN dispute: The Nationals need more of the local television profits to bankroll their top-six payroll, but the Orioles are waiting for a judge's ruling on how the dispute will be resolved. The Mid-Atlantic Sports Network deal is tilted heavily in favor of the Orioles, but that was the price of them stepping aside when Major League Baseball wanted to move the Expos to Washington. Now, MLB and the Nationals don't like that deal anymore and are pressing for a much higher rights fee. The final arguments in the current phase of the litigation were in May and a decision is pending. The situation: The Nationals have lost two games in a row and have split their past 10, but still reside at the top of the National League East standings, three games ahead of the second-place New York Mets. The Orioles have been in a tailspin after racing to the top of the AL East in June. They have lost six of their past seven games and were just swept by the Minnesota Twins at Target Field. They're obviously hoping that playing the Nationals at home will be an elixir, because it has been the past couple of years. The series probably doesn't need a lot of extra promotion, but the Orioles have two giveaways this weekend. Friday is "floppy plaid hat night," and on Sunday, the first 20,000 fans 15 and over who share my fashion sense will receive an Orioles-themed Hawaiian shirt. Hope it fits. http://www.baltimoresun.com/sports/orioles/blog/bal-leftovers-on-orioles-reliever-chaz-roe- 20150709-story.html Leftovers on Orioles reliever Chaz Roe The Baltimore Sun July 10, 2015 One of the great things about this job is getting a chance to tell stories that aren’t often told. I’ve been intrigued by reliever Chaz Roe since spring training.