Orioles play-by-play broadcaster Kevin Brown is expected to return to the MASN booth on Friday when Baltimore travels to Seattle to play the Mariners, Andy Kostka of The Baltimore Banner reports.
Brown was reportedly suspended by the team for comments he made in the final game of a series vs. the Rays, where he mentioned how the team was 3–2 this season at Tampa Bay after going 3–15 in Tropicana Field from 2020 to ’22. Orioles chairman and CEO John Angelos, son of majority owner Peter Angelos, reportedly took offense to those comments, leading to Brown being suspended for over a week.
After the report was made public, an Orioles official told Kostka that Brown would be “back with us in the near future,” but that the team doesn’t “comment on employment decisions.” While Brown has not been on MASN since the Rays series, he did work Baltimore’s next series against the Phillies on the team’s radio broadcast.
On Monday, many baseball and sports announcers came out in support of Brown, arguing that Baltimore made the wrong decision to suspend him.
Amid Brown’s suspension, the Orioles have the best record in the American League at 70-42 and face the defending champion Astros at home in a three-game series starting Tuesday night.
