If you weren’t able to stay up late last night for the Netherlands-Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic semifinal, you missed a wild affair that featured two baserunning gaffes in the span of the first inning, a pair of two-run first inning homers, one former Oriole relieving another, and, eventually, the wild WBC-only extra inning rules leading to Puerto Rico’s victory.
The bad news for Orioles fans is that if you were rooting for the team with the O’s player on it - Jonathan Schoop is on the Netherlands - you’ve lost that rooting interest.