Hayes Gardner

Hayes Gardner is an enterprise writer for The Baltimore Sun with a focus on the intersection of news and sports. He previously wrote for the Louisville Courier Journal, where he was part of a team named as 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalists. A Kentucky native, Hayes graduated from Grinnell College in Iowa and served as an AmeriCorps member in Oregon.

Orioles left-fielder Austin Hays cannot make a play Aug. 23, 2022, on a deep fly ball by White Sox's Luis Robert in the seventh inning. However, the newly heighten left-field wall kept the ball in the park. The Orioles defeated the White Sox (5-3) at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

State knocks $600,000 off Orioles’ annual Camden Yards rent for team’s reconstruction of left field wall

December 2, 2022 at 7:47 a.m.

It's nearly impossible to quantify all the effects a deeper, taller left field wall at Camden Yards had on the Orioles' 2022 season. The wall — which the team built...

Beloved former Oriole Boog Powell will speak at the 50th convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, being held in Baltimore this week.

The baseball brainiacs are coming to Baltimore: At research convention, expect ‘a smorgasbord of baseball content’

August 16, 2022 at 3:07 p.m.

The baseball brainiacs are coming to Baltimore. From Wednesday to Sunday, the Hyatt Regency Inner Harbor will host the 50th convention of the Society for American Baseball Research, an organization...

Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos wants to reassure Baltimore that the club "will never leave" the city.

Amid legal battle with brother, Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos says team ‘will never leave’ Baltimore

June 13, 2022 at 2:50 p.m.

In the midst of a lawsuit among members of the Angelos family, Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos issued a statement Monday asserting that the club "will never leave" Baltimore....

The Supreme Court ruled against a Baltimore baseball team 100 years ago, leading to MLB’s current antitrust exemption

May 31, 2022 at 7:04 a.m.

More than a dozen men gathered for a banquet at Baltimore's Belvedere Hotel in March 1914, and though they were set to embark into challenging, uncharted territory, they were brash...

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