Hearing from Showalter after a 3-2 walk-off win

The Orioles didn't want any part of free baseball today after two weather-related delays totaling 2 hours, 51 minutes.

Matt Wieters delivered his eighth career walk-off hit with a two-out single in the ninth inning that scored Chris Davis and gave the Orioles a 3-2 opening day win over the Twins before 45,785 at Camden Yards.

The Orioles snapped an eight-game losing streak to the Twins, the last win coming on Aug. 31, 2014 in Baltimore. They've now recorded five walk-off wins on opening day, the most recent before today coming on March 31, 2003 in the snow game against the Indians at Camden Yards.

Wieters has 700 career hits. This one came after he was 0-for-4 with two strikeouts and five runners left on base. Mark Trumbo's fourth single set the table again for Wieters, and this time he delivered in the clutch.

Davis raced from first to third on Trumbo's single. Trumbo broke for second base on Kevin Jepsen's next pitch, the Twins didn't cover the bag and Wieters singled up the middle to end the game.

Per STATS, Inc., Trumbo is the fourth Oriole to record at least four hits in his debut and the first since Chris Parmelee on June 16, 2015.

Rule 5 pick Joey Rickard singled, doubled and scored a run in his first two at-bats. He's the 18th Oriole to collect at least two hits in his debut, the most recent being Jonathan Schoop on Sept. 25, 2013 versus the Blue Jays.

The Orioles are 42-21 in home openers and 41-22 on opening day. They're 18-7 in home openers at Camden Yards and have won six in a row.

Manager Buck Showalter will consider moving up Chris Tillman's next start rather than wait until April 9. It's under discussion.

Wieters received a cake in the face from Adam Jones during the MASN postgame interview. At least, that's how it looked to Showalter. Pies aren't allowed anymore.

"It was a cake. ... You know, I've lost control of the team again," Showalter quipped.

"Pick the battles worth winning, right? It had some kind of orange look to it. It looked very cakey to me."

Here's more from Showalter:

On the weather: "That was, uh, a long day at the park. Predicting weather is a challenge. Our guys did a great job with it. It's just tough to figure out when we were going to get the rain. I was in the room and I saw the same thing they were seeing. All the sudden it completely changed and went somewhere else, then it came back in. You've all lived here most of your lives, you know what predicting weather this close to the water is like.

"Our guys do a great job with it, you've seen it through the years here, since I've been here. They tell me it's going to rain and it doesn't look like it, and then it does. They tell me it's going to clear and I don't think it's going to, and it does. They're trying to do what's best for the fans and the players. We all know how much people have sacrificed to get here, and we're trying to get the game in."

On Tyler Wilson's three scoreless relief innings: "That's one of the reasons why you like Tyler. I talked about it a lot in the spring. A lot of guys, with a leadoff double after Chris was pitching so well, would have let it get away from them. But he got out there and I thought that was some of the key outs in the game there, was not letting them get a lot of momentum going there.

"Fortunately, we had a full bullpen and some potential starters that were there. Brad (Brach) got a big out for us, a couple of them aided by Joey's catch out there, which is the right decision to catch that ball at home in a tie game. You go get that ball."

On a memorable opening day: "It is. It's like, who's your best starter? The guy pitching tonight. It was a challenging day emotionally. There's a lot of emotion swings in the pregame, that's part of opening day. A lot people, most of all our fans, have put a lot of time and effort into making this a special day and we didn't want to let them down. Trying to not only win the game, but trying to present what opening days are supposed to be about.

"I think if you'd asked all of them what they want opening day to be about, it's the Orioles winning. So that was the key to a good opening day for all of us."

On whether he felt like the Orioles had to win this game: "There are certain things you have to do in this life and winning a baseball game is not one of them. We've got the best groundskeeper in the business. That's what we do. We play. I think everyone felt something for the fans because they had to sit there and wait through it. But they should have great confidence there are reasons why things are being done and 90 percent of it is for their benefit."

On Chris Tillman, who struck out five of six batters: "It reminded me of the playoff game against Detroit. He carried such a good fastball all spring. He really wanted to pitch deep into the game. I wouldn't say mad. He was frustrated. We were talking about going into the cage The season, he has 161 more and we hope Chris is a big part of it. He was frustrated because he knew he was carrying good stuff and had good command.

"He was carrying it all today. Curveball for strike, slider, and he hadn't even broke out the changeup. The good news is that we saved some bullets."

On being able to win without home runs: "I hope so. A win's a win. We scored more runs last year than we scored the year before. I don't want to hang it around one part of the club. Pitching's going to be very important. But our starting pitchers, I know they've heard enough about the other part. There are some guys here with a track record. I wouldn't sell them short.

"Good pitching will always beat good hitting. When a pitcher's on top of his game and a hitter's on top of his game, the pitcher will win most of the time and that's why the things you're talking about, Chris going from first to third, if they decided to cover second on the steal in the ninth inning, the second baseman may have run right into Matt's line drive. You've got to be fortunate. Trumbo stole a base. If you look at his career, when he does steal it's at a high percentage. Little things like that where when it's there we've got to go get it, and we talk a lot about that in the spring.

"Just because you have the potential to hit home runs doesn't mean you can't try to go 180 feet on a batted ball instead of 90. I was real pleased with our selectiveness for the most part today. We had more walks. I think we had four, something like that. Five. Guys make a living out of getting people out of the strike zone or taking them off the sweet part of the bat."