The long-awaited major league debut of 2019 first overall draft pick Adley Rutschman was finally upon us Saturday night in Baltimore. Though the O’s fell to the Tampa Bay Rays 6-1, it was, hopefully, an evening that will be looked back upon as momentous in Charm City baseball lore.
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As for Adley, though he went down swinging in an anticlimactic first at-bat, he walked in his second trip, and added a hit later, to finish his evening 1-for-3 with a walk, and a nice little first-day OBP of .500.
His hit though, wasn’t just any hit. Amazingly, he joined former top O’s prospects Matt Wieters & Manny Machado (and some other not-top prospects like Ryan McKenna) in notching hist first career three-bagger and his first career hit on the same swing. In a park that’s notorious for being stingy with triples (or at least, was, until this year’s controversial switch to Mount Wall-timore in LF), that this keeps happening boggles the mind a bit.
Grab that baseball! @RutschmanAdley is on the board with a three-bagger! pic.twitter.com/1H4Ha1vpMJ
— MLB (@MLB) May 22, 2022
If you only ever saw first-career hits for Orioles, you would be forgiven for thinking that Oriole Park at Camden Yards is some sort of triples haven.
Now, could there have been some home-town scoring shenanigans afoot here? Perhaps…maybe a double with an error would be the more appropriate way to assign what we just witnessed. But you know what? I’m not complaining.
The Rutschmans – Adley’s father, mother, and sister – were of course in attendance for the debut, and this clip of them celebrating while their son/brother sped around the bases is priceless.
Fam reaction to your first base hit, PRICELESS pic.twitter.com/ZTWQ1X2xMQ
— Cut4 (@Cut4) May 22, 2022
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