I will begin what little I have to say on this game with a plaudit for the Baltimore Orioles. Bird Land brought their A-game, with an aggressive approach that exploited an atypically wild outing from Seattle Mariners starter George Kirby who simply could not reel things in. Of the five home runs Baltimore clubbed Monday night, only Adley Rutschman’s wall-scraper could be levied with an accusation of cheapness. They were meatballs, served loose and in a viscous bath recently dumped from a knock-off Chef Boyardee can labeled “Cook Monsieurdeux”, slopped upon a paper plate by a Mariners club that was still ceding half the morning to last night’s events.