How the Orioles' season might end up like their first spring game on MASN

From an unremarkable beginning to the excitement of seeing more prospects succeed, Monday's Orioles spring training game might track the same way their 2023 season dose.

Monday’s Orioles-Phillies game being broadcast on MASN meant the first chance for many to lay eyes on this year’s team, and to the extent a spring training game can have a deeper meaning, this one might have.

Watching it kind of felt like it could be, in abbreviated exhibition game form, been a condensed version of how their season can play out: fine, potentially unremarkable at the beginning, then with the ingredients to get much better by the end.