Before the Orioles played at Sahlen Field on Friday, the lone baseball-related memory that manager Brandon Hyde associated with Buffalo, New York, was that he didn’t get to play there during his minor-league career because he was demoted ahead of a road trip featuring a stop in the city.
Hyde’s club couldn’t free him of that negative association Friday, losing to the Toronto Blue Jays, 5-4, in 10 innings as Randal Grichuk continued to terrorized Baltimore pitching with a two-run, walk-off home run against Cole Sulser with two outs.
The loss opened a four-game series being played in Buffalo, home of the Blue Jays’ Triple-A affiliate, because Canada prevented Toronto’s Rogers Centre from hosting games in 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.