Inside the Orioles clubhouse, a sudoku competition rages between Anthony Santander and …

All it took was an ounce of doubt from Jorge Mateo.When Anthony Santander saw the Orioles shortstop working his way through a sudoku puzzle in the clubhouse, crunched over a table with his eyebrows scrunched in concentration, Santander asked what Mateo was up to. And once Mateo explained, he said those fateful words to Santander: “You’re never going to finish.”“And he said, ‘Oh? I’m never gonna finish?’” Mateo recalled about a week later, sitting across from Santander in the visitor’s dugout at Wrigley Field in Chicago.That was all Santander needed to become invested in sudoku, beginning a daily competition with Mateo and a few other Orioles in the clubhouse. There’s nothing on the line besides bragging rights, but Santander and Mateo still race to finish the puzzle with a flourish of an autograph.Orioles’ next wave of prospects arrives as draft picks Dylan Beavers and Jud Fabian soak in Camden Yards https://t.co/iYblFczJGw— Baltimore Sun Sports (@BaltSunSports) July 23, 2022 More often than not, it’s Mateo who walks to Santander’s locker first to show off the winning sheet, which requires that every row, column and 3-by-3 box in a 9-by-9 grid contains the digits 1 to 9 without repeating. But Santander is…
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