Baltimore Orioles at Colorado Rockies

Inside the visitors’ clubhouse at Coors Field, the play was called “incredible,” “gutsy” and “special.” It left some Orioles players speechless. Every person in the room had wide smiles on their faces long after the game had ended. But it was the first sentence out of Baltimore manager Craig Albernaz’s mouth that best described the game-saving homer-robbing catch made by Colton Cowser late Monday night. “It’s the best play I’ve ever seen,” Albernaz said. Cowser put an emphatic stamp on the O’s return to .500 with one of the best plays that truly any baseball fan has likely ever seen. The 26-year-old center fielder robbed Jake McCarthy of what would have been a walk-off two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning and singlehandedly saved the Orioles’ 2-1 series-opening win over the Rockies. At 69-69, Baltimore has an even record for the first time since it was 15-15 on April 30. The O’s have won eight of their past 10 games to pull within a half-game of the Guardians (69-68) for the third American League Wild Card spot as the calendar turns to September. And on this night, the Orioles could thank Cowser for that. So, here was the big question: How in the world did he pull that off? “I was playing a little more shallow than I probably should have been in that situation. Just trying to cut down that runner \[on second base\