BALTIMORE — In the back row of Section 86 at Oriole Park at Camden Yards, Danny Hoff and A.J. Uebel were dousing themselves (and occasionally some bystanders) with a water bottle as their beloved Baltimore Orioles rallied and then rolled over the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-3 behind Cedric Mullins' cycle.
Orioles officials said they sold 2,000 tickets in the section within 48 hours of announcing its existence. So Hoff and Uebel — 25 and 26 years old, respectively — only barely snagged seats in the designated area and were mostly outside the radius of Mr. Splash, the team-appointed character wielding the water.At their age, they have never seen the Orioles win a World Series. They’ve never seen them win a game in the ALCS.
The direction, if not the results, began to change a few years ago. The Orioles suffered through three 100-loss seasons between 2018 and 2021, part of a ground-up rebuild under former Houston Astros architect-turned-Orioles GM Mike Elias. But when prized catcher Adley Rutschman arrived in 2022,“My entire teen years growing up, we sucked, so it was hard to follow, but I played baseball, so I wanted to,” Hoff said. “Now it's getting more exciting.
“It seems invaluable to have a team with togetherness and character and sort of entertaining, quality humans on the team,” Elias told Yahoo Sports, giving manager Brandon Hyde credit for the clubhouse atmosphere. “But we're just really lucky that we have just good people on this team. They’re great guys, and you see them having fun with one another.
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