For all the obvious reasons, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde was smart to pass on Blue Jays Cy Young candidate Robbie Ray’s invitation to come to the pitcher’s mound as the two jawed at each other.
Had their profane shouting match in the second inning actually come to blows, he might not have been around when Anthony Santander delivered the blow that changed the game for the Orioles — a three-run, go-ahead homer in the seventh to help the Orioles to a 6-3 win Friday night before an announced 11,751 at Camden Yards.
The shouting match between Ray and Hyde, seemingly over the left-hander’s slow work-rate on the mound, was just one of several bizarre aspects of a game that featured five errors and plenty of odd moments along the way.