Another Orioles Opening Day is in the books, and more importantly, another Opening Day in the win column is in the books. Were you one of the 45,667 fans there or were you one of the many who took pregaming to extreme lengths & can barely remember watching the game? I’m thinking there were definitely some folks with hangovers in the stands by the time the 11th inning rolled around.
Either way, the “O” during the National Anthem was loud & proud and the boos for Jose Bautista were quite impressive.
Opening Day 2017 had some awesome memorable moments. Of course, Manny was being Manny, throwing runners out from his knees. But let’s not look past Davis’ scoops! Color me impressed with those plays. Maybe we should call him Scoop Davis instead of Crush Davis?
For the sake of our love for the long ball, I can only hope he reminds us this season why we call him Crush.
Oh yeah, remember when half the stadium booed Hyun-soo Kim on Opening Day last year? Not a single boo this year, and I hope everyone who booed last year learned their lesson. Personally, I’m not one to boo my own player, but to each their own. Those boos should be saved for players like Bautista. I’ll boo him until I’m blue in the face.
The Orioles wouldn’t be the Orioles if they didn’t make us stressed out, frustrated & push us to the edges of our seats with extra innings. Of course they would go into extra innings on Opening Day, but thank the baseball gods for re-signing Mark Trumbo.
The first walk-off home run on Opening Day in Orioles history, on the 25th anniversary of Camden Yards. Storybook.
I mean, how else would we have wanted to win this game?
One more game against the Blue Jays & then it’s a weekend series against the New York Yankees, who started their season with an L, a wonderful L. It’s always a good time playing the Yankees, but I’m not going to lie: I will truly miss booing Mark Teixeira this year.
And rumor has it, Zach Britton is just two saves away from save number 122 in an Orioles uniform. Save number 122 would tie him with Jim Johnson (cue The Pretender) for the second most saves in club history.
No pressure, Zach. Birdland has your back.
