The Orioles buses left Ed Smith Stadium before Brian Roberts was examined today, so manager Dave Trembley said he did not yet have an update on the situation. He's hoping that Roberts can resume workouts and be ready to play in time to get 30 at-bats before the start of the regular season. If Roberts doesn't have enough games left to do that, he'll play in camp games on the back fields to get more at-bats.

The club will hold a "B" game on Sunday at Pirate City in Bradenton. That'll provide an extra nine innings for the pitchers in camp. Jake Arrieta will start that game.

Trembley said he was pleased with the performance of Brad Bergesen at Bradenton last night.

"He was disappointed,'' Trembley said. "I wasn't."

Dave also explained why he has been holding the pitch counts down for some of the pitchers, even though we're almost a month into training camp.

"People have asked me how come pitch counts are down,'' he said. "We've brought a lot of guys back on three days rest instead of four to build them up...It (that approach) came from a lot of people. Talking to (Kevin) Millwood on the bus, he came up in Atlanta and his approach with Leo (former Braves and O's pitching coach Leo Mazzone) was to throw two times in between starts. He liked it. I'm not sure who's responsible for it, but I think it's a real good thing."

Trembley said, however, that he'll continue to limit the work of some pitchers, particularly Koji Uehara.

"We'll eventually get him two innings and pitch him back-to-back,'' he said. "We're not going to do it now, and the same goes for (Jim) Johnson and (Mike) Gonzalez. We're in no hurry to do that."