Boston Red Sox at Baltimore Orioles

A message on the Camden Yards videoboard after the fifth inning on Friday night read: “No more home run pyro. Due to too many Orioles home runs, we have unfortunately run out of fireworks for the night.” It wasn’t a joke, either. The ballpark is equipped with enough pyro to celebrate six O’s homers per game, and the club had already reached that threshold by the fifth. That should tell you what type of night it was in Baltimore -- a fun one, and also one that reaffirmed president of baseball operations Mike Elias’ comments from earlier in the day that the 2026 Orioles are more than capable of preventing a sluggish up-and-down start from turning into a repeat of ‘25. Good news: We can't stop hitting home runs.Bad news: No more fireworks. pic.twitter.com/Cga7c7AnLd