Welcome to our newest column at With Leather, the Orioles Report! In the Report, we’ll be following along with the Birds’ 2012 season and chronicling the unique, exciting things that happen when the O’s take the field! NOTE: NO BASEBALL WILL BE FEATURED
Today’s episode, wherein an elderly woman sitting in the crowd holds a bat longer than Ryan Flaherty, from Holdout Sports:
It happened in the bottom of the second inning at the Phillies’ spring training stadium in Clearwater, Florida. Ruiz’ bat slipped out of his hands as he swung, and the bat landed just to the right of the woman, who may have been the oldest woman in that section of the park, but obviously still has enough reflexes to react and grab the bat.
(video via MLB.com)
Come for the standing ovation they give a lady for touching a bat from her seat, stay for the slow motion replay where Carlos Ruiz loses control of his bat and the section behind him does an involuntary point-wave.
Next week on the Orioles Report: the Oriole Bird accidentally hits a guy in the face with a hot dog, then eats the hot dog.
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And she thought going to dinner for the early bird special was going to be the hi-lite of her day.
as lifelong O’s fan I wanted to be offended but I think I’m more honored that we have finally become so bad we are at least noteworthy for that rather than just faceless bums in black and orange who haven’t finished over .500 since I was potty trained.
Sigh, this is as close as O’s fans get to positive press….
Yep, as another O’s fan, focusing on the non baseball happenings will be much better than anything that happens on the field. Still, at least this’ll be something to keep the O’s in the headlines besides AL east losses.