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Bridwell said he is still motivated by his Baltimore chop but is not bitter toward the Orioles.

“One time, a guy hit a Baltimore chop, and instead of saying that he hit it straight down, Dave said he ‘pounded it into the terra firma,’ ” Mac said.

Manny Machado hit a Baltimore chop for an RBI single, and Joseph homered in the ninth.

The bunt, the stolen base, the Baltimore chop were back-burnered for decades.

All that thinking has made him a journeyman catcher with a decade-long career bouncing through the minors like a Baltimore chop on Astroturf.