After receiving the now-popular Orioles reset — although an abbreviated one — that other slumping sluggers have benefited from, outfielder/first baseman Trey Mancini showed that getting a day off gave him a mental break that he probably needed.
While manager Buck Showalter considered giving Mancini an extended break — Chris Davis sat for eight games and Jonathan Schoop received three days off — Mancini was back in the starting lineup for Thursday night’s makeup game against the Philadelphia Phillies at Camden Yards.
Mancini saw results right away, hitting a two-run homer in his third at-bat to end an 0-for-15 skid, the first of back-to-back homers in the seventh inning that put the Orioles within a run in their 5-4 loss to the Phillies.