I don’t remember much about the 1997 Baltimore Orioles, their 98 regular-season wins, or their playoff run that ended in six games to the Cleveland Indians. I have vague memories of going to ball games that season, mainly being extremely excited over the fact that Scott Kamieniecki started one game I went to. I was 10 at the time and had a weird fascination with Kamieniecki that I can’t explain to this day.
However, my dad will gladly talk about watching Mike Mussina strike out 15 Indians in seven innings in that game three extra-inning loss and he’s still bitter about someone using the same VHS tape he used to record game six while he was at work to record cartoons, even though the Orioles would go on to lose and drop the series.