Shortly after the Orioles dugout went wild, ecstatically celebrating Nolan Reimold’s eighth-inning grand slam Friday night, the club really erupted on the Kansas City Royals.
There is no doubt still some bad blood between the Orioles and Royals dating to last year’s American League Championship Series. Kansas City had the last laugh last year, sweeping the Orioles in four games.
But in Orioles’ 14-8 comeback victory over the Royals on Friday night in front of a sellout crowd of 45,420 at Camden Yards, it was as if the Orioles finally released some long-festering frustration.
It all culminated in a 10-run Orioles eighth inning that saw Reimold’s grand slam hit off the left-field foul pole against Royals setup man Kelvin Herrera, triggering a strange sequence of events that put the game on pins and needles.