Welcome home: O’s fans cheer on the past and future as Manny Machado returns

It was while answering a question about his trade to the Los Angeles Dodgers that Manny Machado, who returned to Camden Yards as a San Diego Padre on Tuesday, made clear just how much his time in Baltimore had meant to him. It's hard," Machado said during a pregame news conference. Earlier this week, Machado talked to The Athletic about being disappointed in how the Orioles' front office handled that trade in his final year before free agency — letting him sweat out the All-Star Game suspecting he had already been dealt.