The bone-chilling cold predicted for Monday night’s series opener between the Orioles and Toronto Blue Jays was probably the chief culprit. It didn’t help that it was a school night either.
The crowd at Camden Yards — a meager 7,915 — was the smallest in the history of the ballpark, if you don’t count April 29, 2015, when the fans were locked out for a game against the Chicago White Sox in the wake of the Freddie Gray unrest. The previous record low was 9,129 for a game against the Tampa Bay Rays on April 12, 2010.