It was perhaps the most 2020 of baseball games. A contest scheduled to last seven innings went nine anyway. Both managers put their designated hitters into the field as their benches thinned. A pitcher avoided a walk-off loss in the bottom of an inning, started the next frame automatically at second base and scored the go-ahead run off a pitcher who eventually made his way to second base and scored, too.
But in the end, it was much like most other games between the Orioles and New York Yankees, with Baltimore falling 6-5 in the first game of Friday’s doubleheader.