ST. PETERSBURG -- The Bowie Baysox, the Orioles' Double-A affiliate, secured the first Eastern League championship in the team's 23-season history on Saturday night, and it wasn't lost on the big league club.
"I was getting updates during our game," O's manager Buck Showalter said of Bowie's 7-2 victory over Reading at Prince George's Stadium. "You thought I was calling video replay. I tried to give [manager] Gary [Kendall] a lot of time [to celebrate]. Fortunately I've been in a little bit of that. I'm sure they were partaking of what [beverages were] left over that they didn't have to send over to Reading.