We won! We won!!

I was standing in the kitchen, staring despondently at the limp and dry eggplant that my husband delivered dutifully from the grill, realizing that I forgotten the pre-grill olive oil drizzle. As I was wondering how I might salvage it as an edible accompaniment to my homemade pasta, I heard a sound, most beautiful emanating from my living room, that of Jim Thorne excitedly saying, “Goodbye home run! Brian Roberts hits a grand slam!” The score was 5-1 and I felt uneasy by this new and unfamiliar feeling while watching an Orioles game…it was…it was…joy!

There are some who would think that having a four run lead in the sixth inning would be insurance enough to win the game, but those people are not Orioles fans. In the bottom of the sixth, just to be sure that any remaining Orioles fan felt the familiar feeling of dismay, Matusz made sure that Ben Zobrist hit a three-run homer. Okay, back on familiar turf.

Then things got really confusing. In the top of the 7th, Reimhold inexplicably homered with two men on base, making the score 8-4 Orioles. How were we going to get out of this situation? We had five runs yet to surrender and only two more innings in which to do it. Another Orioles sticky wicket!

But worry not. We have exceptional losing skills, finely honed over multiple decades. You see, the Orioles still employ Danys Baez, and he had no problem fulfilling the role of Orioles anti-hero. Despite his best efforts though, he only managed to surrender three of the five needed runs, leaving the Orioles with a one run lead going into the ninth. Johnson stepped up to the challenge relieving Baez, but in the end failed to surrender any more runs, going so far as to strike out Evan Longoria for the final out.

So there you have it. We won.

Fear not, dear reader. Tomorrow is a new day and I’m sure we can return to that old familiar feeling of losing to which we’ve become so accustomed.

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