On the day that the heart of this year’s Orioles was traded, it wouldn’t have been surprising to see this team have a quiet game.
Just hours before the game, news broke that Trey Mancini was headed to the Astros. The players expressed their disappointment at losing such a big part of this year’s surprisingly full team, but then they went out onto the field and laid waste to the Texas Rangers.
The scoring started immediately with Cedric Mullins’s fence scraper to left field for his ninth home run of the year. When the Orioles got the next two batters on (Adley Rutschman single, Anthony Santander HBP) but didn’t get either in, it felt like it might be one of those games.