Orioles in the hunt at Memorial Day Look-in; Gausman on the mound Tuesday against Nationals

BALTIMORE, May 28, 2013- On this day after Memorial Day a look at the standings in the American League East has to whet your appetite for the baseball still to be played this coming summer and fall.  The Red Sox, given up for dead two weeks ago, have crept back to first place, just a game ahead of the Yankees.  The Orioles, who came back to beat the Nationals in Washington on Monday, one day after one of the most bitter defeats a team can suffer in Toronto on Sunday, sit three and one-half back.  Tampa Bay is still very much in the race, a game or two behind the Orioles.  On Tuesday night a pitcher on whom the Orioles fate very much depends will make his second major league start against the Nationals.  Kevin Gausman, just 22, and with only 13 minor league appearances behind him. looked sharp in his first start last week in Toronto.  He was charged with four runs over five innings, but some fielding problems behind him led to some of those runs, and his pitches were eye-popping.