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Ravens safety Kyle Hamilton called Stone’s red-zone interception “a perfect play all around the back end.”

Austin Hays and Ryan O’Hearn added homers in the victory.

Jack Flaherty’s lackluster performances and the heavily taxed state of the Orioles bullpen have forced Brandon Hyde’s hand into shifting Flaherty to a relief role for the immediate future.

Washington, the team’s top slot cornerback, suffered a chest injury in the Ravens’ win Sunday over the Cincinnati Bengals.

Historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have missed out on $12.6 billion in funding over the last three decades, according to the Biden administration.

A night after driving in the winning run with a sac fly, Mullins smoked a three-run home run to right field to put the O’s up 8-7 in the top of the ninth. Baltimore overcame a fielding gaffe to secure the win.

“He’s just rehabbing right now to get himself back on the field,” Harbaugh said.

Rare is the field manager who gets to see a rebuilding process through from the losing years to the winning ones, but Hyde is one of them.

The Orioles celebrated their first playoff berth since 2016 in style. But they know they’re not done yet.

The Orioles' five-year rebuild was filled with devastating losses and unlikely heroes.

During a game in 2019, Orioles outfielders Austin Hays, Cedric Mullins and Anthony Santander gathered during yet another pitching change and wondered whether they'd ever make the playoffs. On Sunday, they celebrated together.

Geno Stone recorded the first interception of the year for the Ravens defense, picking off a Joe Burrow pass in the red zone.

All preseason, they’d heard how the Bengals were the consensus favorites in the division. On Sunday, the Ravens left no doubt about where they stood.

“You’re never guaranteed another moment like this,” veteran starting pitcher Kyle Gibson said.

The Orioles had made the playoffs before they finished Sunday's extra-inning game with the Rays. But winning on a walk-off allowed a full catharsis, closing the door on a rebuild and celebrating a postseason berth with style.

Two vets of the rebuild — Austin Hays and Cedric Mullins — had key hits, while Adley Rutschman — the face of the resurgence — homered and later scored the winning run.

It started with the Manny Machado trade in 2018 and ended with the playoff appearance the team just clinched.

Competing for a championship was always the near-term goal of this rebuild, though that was obscured at times by the fact that for years nothing seemed to be getting better for the Orioles on the major league side.

The Ravens spent Sunday afternoon exorcising a lot of demons.

The Ravens end their Cincinnati losing streak to start the season 2-0.