Orioles first baseman Trey Mancini knocked a single up the middle in his first at-bat of spring training on Sunday, but the base hit was anything but ordinary for the four-year veteran.
Sunday's game marked Mancini's first contest in over a year as he missed the entire 2020 season due to Stage 3 colon cancer. Mancini received a standing ovation before his first-inning single, tipping his cap to the crowd before stepping to the plate.
"It was amazing," Mancini said postgame, per ESPN. "I almost teared up a little bit, I'm not going to lie, when I was up there and everybody gave me a standing ovation and I saw all the guys on the field clapping on the Pirates, clapping in the dugout, our team and all our fans.