Orioles turn contrasts in defensive ability into performance art

Delmon Young is playing left field for the Baltimore Orioles in a playoff game. This isn’t an interleague thing, where David Ortiz has to pretend he’s a first baseman for seven innings. Young is actually playing left field in an American League ballpark. On purpose.

As you might expect, that brought up a situation like this:

Hypnotic. Instead of cutting the ball off and holding Alex Avila to a single, Delmon delmonned the ball into a double. After a sac fly got Avila to third, Andrew Romine tried a sneak-attack bunt, and Jonathan Schoop brought the Orioles’ defense back to even for the inning:

The play was reviewed and upheld, which ...

Huh. It was just a run-saving play in a scoreless elimination game, though. No biggee.