Miller to Manage Orioles in 1999

Baltimore Manager Ray Miller will be back again next season despite a 10-game losing streak that all but eliminated the Orioles’ playoff hopes, majority owner Peter Angelos said.

“He’s done a good job in difficult circumstances. He’ll be back,” Angelos was quoted as saying in Friday’s editions of The Baltimore Sun.

“I think I’ve done a good job of holding this together,” Miller said. “This thing could have blown up with all the injuries we had to go through. We still put together a solid run. We just gave out.”

Angelos said several injuries have made it tough to judge Miller’s performance. Miller is in the first year of a $1.4 million, two-year contract with an option for 2000.

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The Orioles signed designated hitter Harold Baines to a one-year contract. Terms were not disclosed. Baines, 39, is batting .305 with seven home runs and 49 RBIs in 89 games. The club also announced that right-hander Scott Kamieniecki will return home to Flint, Mich. Kamieniecki is to be examined on Sept. 13 by Dr. Henry Bohlman, professor of orthopedics at Case Western University. He is scheduled to undergo surgery Sept. 15 to repair a herniated disk in his neck, pending results of Bohlman’s examination. . . . The New York Yankees took right-handed relievers Jeff Nelson and Darren Holmes off the disabled list in time for the opener of a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox. Both had been on rehabilitation assignments.