Hello, friends.
There are now 32 days remaining until the next scheduled regular season Orioles game, which is Opening Day. If the ritual half-baseball of spring training is of great interest to you, there’s better news for you: That schedule begins at 1:05 today, as the O’s host the Pirates in Sarasota.
Spring training games, especially the ones early in the schedule, tend to not have a lot of resemblance to the regular season. The lineups, in late innings particularly, have a lot of players who won’t be making the team. Innings can just be ended summarily when a manager decides his pitcher has reached a pitch count.