Orioles closer Félix Bautista pitched in a game for the first time since August 2023 with his spring training appearance Monday vs. Boston.

There’s nothing that matters so much in spring training as having everyone either stay healthy or get healthy. Monday afternoon’s otherwise-meaningless spring training game tie between the Orioles and the Red Sox had one of these key markers in Birdland.

The yearslong dispute between the Orioles and Nationals over the ballclubs’ television rights is finally over.

The Nationals and Baltimore Orioles ended a legal fight over television rights dating to 2012 when Major League Baseball announced Monday that Washington will be freed from its deal with the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network after the upcoming season.

The league’s central office said Monday that the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have settled their media-rights disputes, ending a drama that has been in court for a decade and ultimately reaches back 20 years, to when the Nationals moved to Washington D.C. in 2005.