{"id":630814,"date":"2026-03-18T23:11:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630814\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T23:11:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T23:11:24","slug":"young-orioles-fans-celebrate-upcoming-opening-day-with-the-oriole-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/630814\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Orioles fans celebrate upcoming Opening Day with the Oriole Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"

Young fans packed the Cockeysville Library today to see a special guest as Orioles fever sweeps through Baltimore just over a week before Opening Day.<\/p>\n

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WATCH: Young Orioles fans celebrate upcoming Opening Day with the Oriole Bird<\/p>\n

Young Orioles fans celebrate upcoming Opening Day with the Oriole Bird<\/p>\n

The oriole bird joined the kids for a special countdown event, participating in story time with song and dance and taking plenty of photos.<\/p>\n

“Everybody is very excited for the season to start, and we’re really proud as Baltimore County Public Library to be able to host one of the very select events,” [Name] said.<\/p>\n

There are more events as the countdown to Opening Day continues. Tomorrow, fans can meet the Oriole Bird and Mister Splash at Weis Markets in Ijamsville.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, fans can take pictures with racing hot dog mascots, the Camden Franks, at Weis Markets in Bel Air.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, the Orioles take on the Washington Nationals for an exhibition game at Camden Yards. Game time is 1:35.<\/p>\n

The Orioles take on the Minnesota Twins next Thursday, March 26, at Camden Yards.<\/p>\n

This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Young fans packed the Cockeysville Library today to see a special guest as Orioles fever sweeps through Baltimore…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":630815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2374],"tags":[143,47,2538,5,79659,1404,80975,80976,4,1406,19404,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-630814","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-baltimoreorioles","11":"tag-baseball","12":"tag-camden-franks","13":"tag-camden-yards","14":"tag-cockeysville-library","15":"tag-mister-splash","16":"tag-mlb","17":"tag-opening-day","18":"tag-oriole-bird","19":"tag-orioles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116252711632938900","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630814","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=630814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/630815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}