In a marathon 17-15 win by the split-squad Orioles over the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday that featured 28 hits, nine errors and seven home runs, two sets of professional baseball players spent nearly four hours balancing on the edge of fun and folly, falling often but certainly not failing to entertain.
Home runs by Rio Ruiz, Austin Hays and Ryan Mountcastle helped overcome a rough start for Dylan Bundy before things went off the tracks for both sides.
A sacrifice fly by Stevie Wilkerson in which Wilkerson and DJ Stewart, who was at first base, didn’t know whether the ball was caught provided the eventual winning run and a fitting encapsulation of the depths the game descended to.