On Wednesday night, the Orioles explored how bad a team can play in a baseball game and still win it and they still managed to win. On Thursday afternoon, they showed up in front of the first crowd to be at Camden Yards in 18 months to continue the experiment. A sellout (at 25% capacity) crowd got about five fun innings of baseball before things ultimately went south and the O’s dropped the home opener to the Red Sox, 7-3.
Before digging in to the many things that were not so fun about this game, let’s start with a note that is fun.