Everybody in Baltimore knows that Adam Jones is the man. Now the rest of the baseball world knows it, too.
Jones wasted no time parlaying the pride that goes with starring on Team USA in the World Baseball Classic into a heroic offensive performance Friday night in a game that could easily have gone in a very different direction.
Nobody in the Orioles clubhouse was surprised when Jones delivered his second run-scoring hit of the game in a 10-inning walk-off victory over Colombia. His Orioles teammates followed the USA's WBC opener in any way they could — on television, of course, but also on Buck Showalter's iPad, Brad Brach's phone and whatever device was handy to the players on the team bus back from Fort Myers after Friday night's exhibition loss to the Boston Red Sox.