Wednesday’s game at Camden Yards, the Orioles’ last before Friday’s 4 p.m. trade deadline, came and went without first baseman Trey Mancini realizing it could be his final home game in Baltimore.
It would be a memorable one: He homered and shared a moment with Sonsy Gaba, the mother of Mo, an Orioles and Ravens superfan who died of cancer a year earlier. Mancini missed the 2020 season facing cancer himself, but amid his comeback campaign from stage 3 colon cancer, he hasn’t often allowed his mind to drift toward the possibility he’s no longer an Oriole by the weekend.