ORIOLES 7 NATIONALS 3 F...the "Battle of the DMV" the last battle of 2014 the CHARM City O's "Take the Cake" as MARKAKIS & JOSEPH go Solo BLAST and the O's rally in the late Frames! "WEEKDAY BENDERS" with the AL East leading ORIOLES #BALvsWSH

The Baltimore Orioles are looking like and playing like a division winner and no it''s not too early saying that as the Blue Birds and Yankees are not playing up to snuff. The O's with a make-up Inter League Game left smacked the home team the Nats 7-3 as the O's are fifteen games over the .500 mark.

It was the Nats striking early and often putting up a duck each in the 2nd, 3rd, an 4th only to have the O's staying close putting up a duck in the 3rd and 5th. Nats Back Stop Wilson Ramos went yard in the 2nd as the O's Nick Markakis and Caleb Joseph went Solo Blasts in the 3rd and 5th for the O's Runs.

It was in the 7th inning with the score 3-2 Nats the O's put up a crooked three highlighted by a Ryan Flaherty RBI two-bagger and run-scoring singles by Adam Jones and Delmon Young. Nats Starter Tanner Roark was on the bad end of that 7th inning as he gets the loss going seven giving up five runs.

The O's put up two more runs in the 8th Starter Kevin Gausman gets the "W" going six giving up three early ones on eight hits. The O's move to 63-48 and that is good for four game lead over the Blue Birds and a five game lead over the Yankees.

Nats fall to 60-50 but leads the NL East by three games over the Chop Shop 404 as the Braves appear to be "Stuck in Muck" from the Everglades!