For the second straight night, Adam Jones is out of the Orioles starting lineup - and this time, so is J.J. Hardy, with Manny Machado playing shortstop in his stead.
Adam Jones is out of the Orioles lineup for a second consecutive game, which also happens to be only the fourth Orioles game of the season. Jones maintains, as manager Buck Showalter did yesterday, that the problem is not his oblique, but rather something in his "rib cage area," an area that does include the oblique muscle.
Although Jones maintained to O's reporters that he would play if this was September, rather than April, does that really make you feel so much better?