It certainly will be a strange scene when the Orioles and Chicago White Sox play in an empty stadium on Wednesday afternoon, but it couldn't be helped. The security concerns throughout the city of Baltimore in the aftermath of Monday night's intense rioting and urban destruction made it impractical to assign a large contingent of police to Camden Yards.
Hopefully, it'll look like an overreaction when the Orioles play their three "home" games against the Tampa Bay Rays at Tropicana Field in St. Petersburg, Fla., this weekend, but baseball had to step aside for the greater good.