Cap10's Next-to-Last Game: Adam Jones's Game-Worn Pants From September 29, 2018

The Orioles' last homestand of 2018 turned into a long goodbye for Adam Jones, and these pants come from the day before the finale. On Saturday, September 29, the Orioles hosted the Astros in a doubleheader, and the crowd had been giving Jones a standing ovation before every at-bat in the final series. In the opener he doubled off Justin Verlander in the fourth for the Orioles' first hit of the day, and in the nightcap he wasn't done. Playing right field, he went 2-for-3 with a walk, and he made a diving catch in right field to end the first inning. Houston won the second game 5-2 in front of 26,020 fans, sweeping the doubleheader and handing the Orioles their 115th loss of a 47-115 season.

These pants were worn in that nightcap, the second-to-last game of Jones's 11 years in Baltimore. He played for the Orioles from 2008 to 2018, and the next afternoon he ran out of the home dugout at full speed one last time in a 4-0 win over the Astros. The finale gets the attention, but the day before had something the last game didn't: two games of baseball that nobody thought of as a farewell yet, with a player who was still diving for balls in right field. For collectors, game-worn pants from the second-to-last game of a franchise icon's Orioles career are a real find.