Things got weird in Baltimore on Wednesday night. A fan made a run for it during the final at-bat of the Cubs-Orioles game at Camden Yards, briefly scrambling the ending of what was already a wild finish.
The Cubs were up 9-7 but the Orioles had made things interesting. They’d turned a six-run deficit into a two-run game in the ninth inning, so the tension was real. Jacob Webb was on the mound trying to close it out when the field invader appeared near the left field wall.
Jomboy Media posted the moment on X — the fan jogging across the outfield grass as play came to a sudden halt. Security moved in quickly and escorted the person off, but for a few seconds, nobody was sure what was going to happen next.
Once the field was clear, Webb got back to work. He finished the save and the Cubs walked away with a 9-7 win. Pete Crow-Armstrong had two home runs and Seiya Suzuki added a three-run shot to give Chicago the cushion they needed. And they needed it, because Baltimore refused to fold.
Tyler O’Neill homered twice off the bench. Coby Mayo also went deep. But the Orioles’ rally fell short.
Colin Rea got the win after throwing 5 1/3 innings and giving up three runs. Webb did his job in the ninth, and the Cubs got out of town with a road win that could have been a lot messier than it ended up being.
The fan thing? It’s a footnote now. But it gave the game a viral moment nobody asked for — and a story the Cubs will probably laugh about on the flight home.
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