For the Baltimore Orioles, there was a lot of good that came out of Tuesday night’s Manny Machado beaning and the bench-clearing brawl that ensued.
First off, the team got lit, as Mark Trumbo and Chris Davis hit back-to-back bombs right after the brouhaha, and Adam Jones followed suit to lead off the next inning en route to a 9-1 beatdown of the defending-champion Royals. On top of that, Machado will be suspended, which will give the O’s an everyone-thinks-we-can’t-do-it chip on their shoulder and, as anyone who follows Baltimore knows, that chip will likely pay dividends.