Orioles place Matt Harvey on 10-day injured list; Martin recalled from Norfolk

Matt Harvey’s season with the Orioles may be over. The Orioles placed the 32-year-old right-hander on the 10-day injured list with right knee inflammation and recalled infielder Richie Martin from Triple-A Norfolk on Thursday.

Harvey, who started Wednesday night’s 9-8 Orioles win, but wasn’t involved with the decision has a 6-14 record with a 6.27 ERA. His 28 starts and 14 losses tie him for the American League lead.

Signed to a minor league contract just before spring training, Harvey won a job and a $1 million major league contract, and recorded three straight wins from April 20^th-May 1^st.

He then lost 10 straight decisions before he won there more from July 18^th-30^th, pitching 18 1/3 shutout innings, allowing just 10 hits.

On August 4^th, Harvey left a start at Yankee Stadium with a knee injury and hasn’t won since. On Wednesday night, Harvey allowed four runs, one unearned on nine hits in 4 1/3 innings.

Because the Orioles have so many young pitchers they’d like to look at: Keegan Akin, Mike Baumann, Chris Ellis, Zac Lowther, Alexander Wells and possibly Dean Kremer, it’s possible that Harvey may not pitch again for the Orioles.

Martin played 15 games with the Orioles last month and hit .227 with a home runs and five RBIs. His addition comes at a good time because Ramón Urias, who contributed a key pinch hit on Wednesday night, hasn’t started since Sunday due to an upper leg injury.

He missed much of the season due to a broken left wrist, and was hitting .227 in 15 games with the Orioles with a homer and five RBIs. In 27 games with the Tides, Martin is hitting .208 with a home run and five RBIs.

Notes: Trey Mancini, who missed three games with an oblique injury returns to the lineup. …Manager Brandon Hyde has Ellis starting the first game of the Orioles’ series with Toronto on Friday night against Robbie Ray. Akin will start one of the games of Saturday’s doubleheader, and Hyde says the team is undecided on the other Saturday starter as well as Sunday’s. They’ll call up an extra player for the doubleheader. …Ellis has now been charged with a hit in his five-inning start against the Yankees last Saturday. Aaron Judge’s liner to leftfielder Ryan McKenna was originally scored as an error, but now it’s changed to a hit. Originally, Ellis had been credited with five no-hit innings.