Over the winter, Buck Showalter, the manager of the Orioles, said that since the Grapefruit League schedule is longer this year - because Opening Day is pushed back a bit - he might pick the starting line-up for the first exhibition game out of a hat. "Maybe {Matt} Wieters (the Orioles' catcher) will lead-off," he told an interviewer. Well, that day is upon us. The Orioles open their Grapefruit League Schedule on Saturday (February 23) afternoon. WBAL radio in Baltimore will broadcast the game.
Meanwhile, up north in Maryland, where snow is forecasted for Friday and Saturday, Maryland opens its home regular season schedule hosting Oakland (Michigan) in a four game series. The original schedule called for a single game late Friday afternoon, a double-header Saturday and the series finale on Sunday afternoon. But college baseball is not pro ball, where fans have purchased tickets in advance. A forecast that called for an all-day rain or snow storm for Saturday convinced the powers-that-be to revise the schedule. The two teams played a double-header Friday and will try to play another on Sunday, with the first game beginning at 11 am. Maryland opened the season last weekend at powerful LSU and lost all three games, although the first two were very close, especially the opener on Friday night, which the Terps lost, 1-0.
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