As slugger Mark Trumbo continually deals with a sore right knee that has not fully rebounded from surgery last year, his return to the Orioles this season — and maybe his playing career — is in jeopardy.



It will be a few weeks before Trumbo, 33, will know whether the injection of platelet-rich plasma he received Thursday will allow him to get back on the field in 2019. He’s optimistic, but it all depends on how he responds to this latest treatment. Therefore, it’s possible that Trumbo, a pending free agent, already has played his final game in an Orioles uniform.



If that’s the case, there is something Trumbo wants Orioles fans to know. There’s a record he wants to set straight.



He did not kill the Orioles’ once-revered pie-in-the-face postgame celebration.



It wasn’t Trumbo. He rather enjoyed the frivolity. Really.



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