The star of the afternoon may have been a player that doesn’t always receive the same recognition as other players: long snapper Nick Moore.<\/p>\n
Moore won the home run derby before the game, blasting six balls into the home-run zone from both sides of the plate. Moore, who spent four seasons in minor league baseball after being drafted by the Boston Red Sox in 2011, hadn’t picked up a bat since 2019. That time away from the diamond didn’t seem to impact his confidence in the batter’s box.<\/p>\n
“This was a lot of fun,” Moore said. “I hadn’t done one of these in a long time and coming back out and swinging the bat a little bit was fun.”<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old Moore was even happier to support a great cause.<\/p>\n
Moore’s mother, Shari, taught special education elementary students with moderate to severe autism for roughly 20 years. That gave him a front-row seat to see the impact organizations like Special Olympics Maryland have.<\/p>\n
“I’ve been around Special Olympics for a long time, and anytime you can get involved in that, it’s great for the community, it’s great for the kids,” Moore said. “Honestly, they’re some of the most fun people I know, so I was really excited that Isaiah did this and gave us an opportunity to come out here and support them.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The star of the afternoon may have been a player that doesn’t always receive the same recognition as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2052],"tags":[184,117,2282,7,781,786,20472,4698,20847,6,782,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-96938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baltimore-ravens","8":"tag-baltimore","9":"tag-baltimore-ravens","10":"tag-baltimoreravens","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-general","13":"tag-homepage-centerpiece","14":"tag-inline-news","15":"tag-isaiah-likely","16":"tag-justin-robertson","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-offseason","19":"tag-ravens"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114611057113505877","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}