I don’t know if you’ve heard, but Manny Machado is no longer manning the left side of the infield for the Orioles. While Baltimore didn’t necessarily miss his bat this evening, they sure could have used his glove.
With two outs and two on in the bottom of the tenth inning, Aledmys Diaz bounced a groundball in between shortstop and third base. Machado played both of those positions for the Orioles, and boy could they have used him at either one tonight. The ball bounced off of new Oriole Renato Nunez’s glove, trickled through to hit Tim Beckham’s mitt, and eventually made it’s way past both players.