Baseball is a great game, isn’t it?
Only in baseball could a Wednesday night game between two last-place teams turn into something so memorable.
It wasn’t just memorable for an Orioles win, although that was certainly delightful, with Ryan McKenna’s walkoff walk sealing an improbable victory in a game the O’s trailed 5-0 in the second and 7-5 in the eighth.
But what happened in the bottom of the third inning was the kind of beautiful moment that transcends sports. Trey Mancini, who before the game had caught the ceremonial first pitch from Sonsy Gaba, mother of the late O’s superfan Mo Gaba, crushed a no-doubt-about-it home run into the left field seats.