Hello, friends.
Ryan McKenna! I’ll be perfectly honest: I assumed that McKenna was heading back down to the minors the minute that Cedric Mullins returned to the Orioles roster and was kind of annoyed along with my surprise yesterday to discover that Josh Lester was optioned instead. I’ll go ahead and eat just a little crow about that one, because it was McKenna, batting in Anthony Santander’s spot in the lineup after having replaced him on defense in later innings, who delivered the extra-innings walkoff homer for the O’s yesterday.
This one really could have been a horrible Orioles loss to go along with the different kind of horrible loss they suffered on Friday night.