Orioles legend Cal Ripken Jr. and Ravens coach John Harbaugh sat subsequent to one another within the first row behind dwelling plate at Wednesday’s Orioles sport, and a foul ball landed squarely between the Baltimore sports activities figures, narrowly lacking them. Neither made a play on the ball because it bounced innocently behind them and additional into the stands, and Harbaugh’s brother, Jim Harbaugh, used the second as a possibility to jokingly take a delicate dig at his NFL colleague.

John Harbaugh ducked ahead and Ripken leaned to his proper as Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman charged in direction of the protecting netting and ultimately ran out of room to make a play on the popup.

“I wasn’t going to speak about it,” Jim Harbaugh mentioned after he initially wrapped up his Thursday media availability at Los Angeles Chargers minicamp. “That actually was a can of corn. That may be the lesson: preserve your eye on the ball. However far be it from me to teach Cal Ripken, an ideal shortstop.”

Jim Harbaugh famous that his older brother was a “large center infielder” however didn’t take a glove with him to the sport between the Orioles and Detroit Tigers. Wenceel Pérez’s foul ball at Camden Yards would have been inside catchable vary if both of the front-row spectators sought to seize it.

Ripken made numerous excellent performs at Camden Yards as a two-time Gold Glove Award winner. The primary-ballot Corridor of Fame inductee made 19 All-Star groups throughout his two decade-long profession, throughout which he performed just for the Orioles and cemented himself as the best participant in franchise historical past. Ripken was a two-time AL MVP and gained the 1983 World Sequence as a famous person on the left aspect of the Baltimore infield.

John Harbaugh additionally introduced a championship to town when he led the Ravens to a Tremendous Bowl XLVII title. The longtime Ravens coach is the winningest headman in crew historical past along with his 185-115 document.