The yearslong dispute between the Orioles and Nationals over the ballclubs’ television rights is finally over.

The league’s central office said Monday that the Baltimore Orioles and Washington Nationals have settled their media-rights disputes, ending a drama that has been in court for a decade and ultimately reaches back 20 years, to when the Nationals moved to Washington D.C. in 2005.

Major League Baseball announced Monday the end of a long-running saga over the Washington Nationals’ television rights between the 20-year-old DC team and the nearby Baltimore Orioles.

Bautista is finally back from a 2023 elbow injury, and he rejoins an Orioles team where simply reaching the playoffs is no longer a sufficient outcome. Aspirations are higher than that.

The result might not have counted toward the standings, but the emotions Félix Bautista felt taking an MLB mound in a game for the first time in 496 days were very real. Bautista, 29, made his first Grapefruit League appearance of the spring Monday,

There’s nothing that matters so much in spring training as having everyone either stay healthy or get healthy. Monday afternoon’s otherwise-meaningless spring training game tie between the Orioles and the Red Sox had one of these key markers in Birdland.