For a baseball player as accomplished as Manny Machado to reach new heights in his career, he had to rely on the familiar Saturday.
With the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh inning of the Orioles' eventual 9-5 loss to the Detroit Tigers, Machado represented the Orioles' best chance to get back into a game that was 8-3 at the time. He took a pair of massive swings with grand slam intentions, nearly falling over when he fouled off the second strike, before reining himself in.
As he's done more often than ever, Machado shortened up with two strikes, got himself under control, and took a slider off the outer half of the plate up the middle for a two-run single to bring the tying run to the plate in Adam Jones behind him.