Starter Rick Sutcliffe on starting the Camden Yards opener and what he dealt with before the game: “Honestly, I didn’t have a chance to get nervous about it. … Two days before Opening Day we played an exhibition game at RFK (in Washington DC) and there was this huge submarine sandwich out there after BP to snack on. And a lot of us, including (Cal Ripken Sr.), a lot of us got food poisoning. And the night before Opening Day at Camden Yards, my wife … she had to drive to a pharmacy to get some stuff, because I had it bad. I was throwing up, I had a fever. I had all kinds of problems. … I remember (before the opener) laying on the training table next to Senior (Ripken), neither one of us felt very good. It was one of those days I was lucky it was overcast. And I probably should have had that mentality more in my career, because I didn’t know how long I was going to last. I knew that I had a fever. I knew I had lost a bunch of weight. So, I was trying to get outs as quick as I possibly could. I think a lot of that might have led to me having success.”

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