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Opening Day Shots: Photographer Joy R. Absalon captures Monday’s top moments

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Our photographer, Joy R. Absalon, does a tremendous job capturing great shots during Orioles’ games throughout the season. Here are some of her photos from Monday at Camden Yards. Enjoy.

Photo credit: Joy R. Absalon

The balloon archway at the top of the famed Opening Day orange carpet at Camden Yards.

The Oriole Bird is the first, um, runner down the orange carpet in 2017.

Longtime Orioles’ play-by-play announcer Fred Manfra throws out a ceremonial first pitch.


New Oriole Craig Gentry runs down the orange carpet. He said previously he was going to be very careful.

Several Orioles high-five fans on their way to pre-game introductions.

New Catcher Welington Castillo made it to third base in his first at-bat with the team. But was stranded there.

Toronto’s Jose Bautista, the man O’s fans love to boo, was back at Camden Yards. And was booed lustily.

Seth Smith, in his first at-bat as an Oriole, flied out to right — in the Orioles’ first at-bat of 2017.

Rookie Trey Mancini with a pinch-hit single in the top of the 10th inning.

Manny Machado’s magical defensive prowess was on display again Monday.

Mark Trumbo rounds third on his walkoff homer in the 11th Monday as fans cheer in the background.

The crowd at Camden Yards watches as Mark Trumbo’s walkoff homer heads to the left field seats.

Trumbo gets doused by his teammates as he crosses home plate in the 3-2, 11th-inning win against the Toronto Blue Jays on Opening Day.


Dan Connolly

Dan Connolly has spent more than two decades as a print journalist in Pennsylvania and Maryland. The Baltimore native and Calvert Hall graduate first covered the Orioles as a beat writer for the York (Pennsylvania) Daily Record in 2001 before becoming The Baltimore Sun’s national baseball writer/Orioles reporter in 2005. He has won multiple state and national writing awards, including several from the Associated Press Sports Editors. In 2013 he was named Maryland Co-Sportswriter of the Year by the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association. And in 2015, he authored his first book, "100 Things Orioles Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die." He lives in York, with his wife, Karen, and three children, Alex, Annie, and Grace.

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  • Above all else, my take-away from today is: wow, Kevin Gausman was excellent. A very confident display - superb.

  • Note to self..don't listen to Os games in meeting again...I may have said out loud..goooodbye baseball, walk off baby!! Lol

    • Hey, it would be a badge of honor if you got disciplined for an Os outburst. Was a pretty cool win.

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