The Little League home run is the most delightful of baseball plays, as long as your favorite team isn’t on the wrong end of it. Sometimes, like in a youth league full of well-meaning bumblers, the batter gets a hit and just keeps running until he crosses home plate.
The Orioles were on the right end of one of those plays in the second inning on Wednesday night. The play looked more like something that would have happened to the Orioles in a bad way during the Perlozzo/Trembley era.
Instead, it was the Rays who played a Seth Smith single with a man on first base into a play where two runs, including Smith, the batter, crossed the plate.