MINNEAPOLIS — As most baseball players would be around 9 a.m. the day of a night game, Jorge Lopez was sleeping when his phone ringing woke him.
Orioles general manager Mike Elias was on the line to inform the relief pitcher that he was heading to the Twins in a deadline-day trade Tuesday.
"The first thing I said, 'I hope this is not the call,' " Lopez said on a video call. "... It's a tough one for Mike. He give me the opportunity, and he trusted me to the end."
