Zach Britton has known this day was coming for a long time, but that didn’t make it any easier when the deal that made him a New York Yankee became official late Tuesday night.
He kept it together, but he was clearly shaken and a bit red-eyed as he talked to reporters in the Orioles clubhouse for the last time and fully grasped the reality that his 12-year Orioles career — and all that happened along the way — was over.
The suspense had been building throughout the day. He was pretty sure what was going to happen by the time they pulled the tarpaulin over the field for another rain delay in the middle of Tuesday night’s 7-6 Orioles victory over the Boston Red Sox.