BALTIMORE -- About 10 years ago, Darren O'Day and Zach Britton each signed their first professional contracts. It was a dream they each realized after boyhoods spent playing in the dirt, playing around parks, laughing and learning and in love with a game that was fun to them.
On Saturday morning, only hours after combining to close out another Orioles victory -- their sixth in a row -- the All-Star relievers were together again at the nearby Fort Meade military base to join in Major League Baseball's inaugural Play Ball Weekend and to feel like kids again.