It was a crappy day that could easily have turned into a crappy night, which would have been no way to open a new baseball season.
Instead, the Orioles waited out two rain delays, overcame the disruption of their pitching staff and celebrated a sudden-death victory over the Minnesota Twins with something else that was not supposed to happen on Opening Day at Oriole Park.
Matt Wieters, who won the game with a two-out RBI single in the ninth inning, got plastered during the postgame television interview by teammate Adam Jones, even though the players had been put on notice by the team this spring that they were no longer allowed to celebrate an exciting victory with flying dessert.