With a \u2018death ball\u2019, Orioles pitching prospect Trey Gibson making his mark<\/a> (The Baltimore Banner)
That\u2019s a heck of a metal pitch name for the prospect Gibson. It brought him some success in his first spring outing. Perhaps soon to come to the MLB level.<\/p>\nBirthdays and Orioles anniversaries<\/p>\n
Nothing of particular note is recorded on this day in Orioles history. Unless there\u2019s bad news, that probably won\u2019t change today.<\/p>\n
One current member of Orioles camp has a birthday today. Happy 29th to pitcher Jos\u00e9 Espada, who pitched three scoreless innings in one game with the team last year. Former Orioles who were born today: 2016 reliever Brian Duensing, 2014 infielder Kelly Johnson, 2005 outfielder Ram\u00f3n Nivar, 2006 pitcher John Halama, Maryland-born 1960-67 pitcher Steve Barber, and 1954 one-game pitcher Ryne Duren. Though he allowed two earned runs in two innings of his MLB debut with the Orioles, Duren made it back to MLB several years later and carved out a ten-year career.<\/p>\n
Is today your birthday? Happy birthday to you! Your birthday buddies for today include: general and 1st president George Washington (1732), baseball Hall of Fame manager Sparky Anderson (1934), basketball Hall of famer Julius Erving (1950), actor Kyle MacLachlan (1959), actress Rachel Dratch (1966), and actress Drew Barrymore (1975).<\/p>\n
On this day in history\u2026<\/p>\n
In 1076, pope Gregory VII, not the pope Gregory the calendar is named after, excommunicated the reigning Holy Roman Emperor, Henry IV, in response to Henry sending Gregory a letter demanding that Gregory abdicate the papacy.<\/p>\n
In 1819, Spain and the United States signed the Adams-On\u00eds Treaty, which provided that in two years time, Spain would sell Florida to the US for $5 million. The sale occurred two years later as indicated by the treaty.<\/p>\n
In 1848, people in Paris sparked a revolution that, within three days, led to the abdication of the king, abolition of the revived monarchy, and the formation of the Second French Republic. This was the first of a wave of revolutions across Europe in 1848, though ultimately none were as successful in their goals as the French one.<\/p>\n
In 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill permitting the admittance of North and South Dakota, Montana, and Washington into the United States.<\/p>\n
In 1980, the US men\u2019s hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in Olympic competition by a 4-3 score, a game known in sporting lore simply as the \u201cMiracle on Ice.\u201d The American team went on to defeat Finland in the gold medal game. The 2026 men\u2019s hockey team will play for a gold medal against the Canadian team today.<\/p>\n
A random Orioles trivia question<\/p>\n
I received a book of Orioles trivia for Christmas. I\u2019ll ask a question each time it\u2019s my turn in this space until I run out of questions or forget. The book gives multiple choice answers, which I typically think would be too easy for us but I\u2019ll give you a chance at today\u2019s question:<\/p>\n
In what year was the B&O Warehouse built?<\/p>\n
A. 1904B. 1896C. 1900D. 1913<\/p>\n
If you\u2019re answering early in the day, please be considerate and use spoiler text in your comment so that others arriving later can still feel they get a fresh crack at the question. Thanks!<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s the way it is in Birdland on February 22. Have a safe Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are now 32 days remaining until Orioles Opening Day. They\u2019ll be playing near-daily exhibitions from now until…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,7936,2538,5,38570,4,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-588085","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-orioles","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-orioles","10":"tag-baltimore-orioles-news","11":"tag-baltimoreorioles","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-bird-droppings","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116119370714274494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}