When it comes to a player with a track record like Orioles catcher Matt Wieters carries, any mention of his struggles around manager Buck Showalter is quickly spun in another direction.
It's not that Wieters hasn't hit as well as he hoped, Showalter said recently. It's that he hasn't hit as well as he ultimately will. But there's no need to spin what Wieters did Wednesday night.
The Orioles stalwart homered in the second inning, hit an RBI double off the wall in the deepest part of center field in the fourth, then hit his second double of the game with one out in the eighth inning as he provided most of the offense in Wednesday's 5-2 bounce-back victory over the Seattle Mariners.