Manager Buck Showalter meant it as a compliment to Mark Trumbo’s power when he said the ball he put a ball way out to left-center field in the Yankee Stadium replica Steinbrenner Field on Friday wasn’t entirely squared up.
Trumbo, a day after posting his best game of the spring with a 2-for-4 effort that saw him drive in four runs, had a different opinion.
“Oh, I killed that thing last night,” he said. “I wouldn’t say otherwise.”
Both that first-inning at-bat, which helped stake the Orioles to an early lead, and a fourth-inning RBI single in which he stayed inside the ball and shot it through the hole into right field, are part of what Trumbo said has been a strong week of at-bats as he prepares for his first season with the Orioles.