Here are highlights from Orioles manager Buck Showalter’s pre-game session:

Left-hander Brian Matusz (intercostal muscle strain) will fly back to Baltimore from Sarasota, Fla., on Thursday and is expected to throw Friday at Camden Yards from 120 feet. He'll take Saturday of, throw again Sunday from 120 feet and then will be re-evaluated, likely Monday.

Matusz will stay with the Orioles through the homestand, then the club will decide on one of three options: send him back to Sarasota or more rehab, have him go with the club on their road trip so he can stay with the Orioles’ medical team or have him go on a rehab assignment to a minor league affiliate.

Sending him out on a rehab assignment would be the best-case scenario and get him closer to returning to the team. He has been out since the season began April 1.

“We hope it is the third one, but we’ll see,” Showalter said.

Showalter said he spoke to J.J. Hardy (oblique strain) today and said his injured shortstop is “doing good.” He is in Sarasota working out with the medical staff there and has been able to complete most exercises without pain, though he still feels discomfort while “rotating the trunk” during one twisting exercise.

Once he can do that without lingering pain, he will begin baseball activities, something he has not done since straining the left oblique April 10. There is still no timetable for his return.

Showalter was asked about Adam Jones and how he ignited a rally Tuesday night by beating out a single.

“I don’t think anybody has played harder since Day One of spring training than Adam Jones,” Showalter said. “I am sure you all are watching, he has brought a great level of effort since Day One of spring training.”

Showalter made a point of singling out Jones’ effort with two outs in the fifth. Jones was on first base when Matt Wieters hit a full-count double to right field that smashed against the out-of-town scoreboard.

Jones took off on the pitch, didn’t slow down and scored from first.

“You’ll see a lot of people, because they are running on the pitch, just casually start running to second base," Showalter said. "He took off like he was trying to steal second base. And he scored standing up. I cannot tell you how many people in the major leagues that do not score from first base on that ball as quick as it got off the wall. And he made it easily.”

ESPN is here to broadcast tonight’s game between the Orioles and Twins. Former Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra, who used to routinely terrorize the Orioles at Camden Yards, is part of the broadcast team and was inside the home clubhouse before the game.

Here are the lineups for Wednesday’s game:
Orioles: Roberts 2B, Markakis RF, Lee 1B, Guerrero DH, Scott LF, Jones CF, Reynolds 3B, Wieters C, Andino SS. Britton P.

Twins: Span CF, Repko LF, Kubel RF, Cuddyer 1B, Thome DH, Valencia 3B, Hughes 2B, Holm C, Tolbert SS. Blackburn P.