With the coronavirus pandemic preventing fans from attending games at least initially this season, Orioles manager Brandon Hyde said Saturday he would be open to fan noise being played inside empty ballparks during the upcoming 60-game campaign, if only to distract from the eerie quiet that would otherwise be present.
Luckily for Hyde, infielder Hanser Alberto has done his best to provide a crowd’s worth of noise throughout the first week of the team’s preseason camp at Camden Yards. During Baltimore’s first few intrasquad games in an empty Oriole Park, Alberto has been easily heard cheering, continuing a show of enthusiasm that became a trademark during his first year with the Orioles in 2019.