Good morning, Camden Chatters.
In a perfect world, the Orioles’ grand return to playoff baseball in Baltimore — in front of an exuberant, sellout crowd at Camden Yards that’s been waiting nine years to attend a postseason game again — would have been celebrated with an emphatic, well-played Orioles victory to take an early lead in the Division Series.
Spoiler alert: it is not a perfect world.
The Rangers spoiled the festivities by handing the Orioles a frustrating 3-2 loss in the opener of the best-of-five series, a game highlighted (or rather, lowlighted) by squandered opportunities at every turn by a slumping O’s offense.