Camden Chat · Dec 20, 2023
The Mother’s Day Massacre (Camden Chat’s Version)
Photo by Jim Rogash/Getty ImagesInspired by Taylor Swift re-releasing her own songs as (Taylor’s version), Camden Chat writers will be spending the rest of 2023 re-releasing some Orioles game recaps and giving them better endings. Today’s newest Orioles hit is a re-imagining of the game from May 13th, 2007 infamously known as “The Mother’s Day Massacre.” Originally, what looked to be a dominant Orioles win took a turn for the worst in the bottom of the ninth. As former Camden Chat steward Scott Christ said immediately afterward, “I’m at a loss to describe my feelings for the Mother’s Day Massacre without going into expletives that even I would find inappropriate.”