BALTIMORE - University of Mary baseball alum Jay Flaa made his debut with the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday, April 27, to become the first former Marauders scholar-athlete to play a game in Major League Baseball.
 
Additionally Flaa becomes the first former University of Mary scholar-athlete to play in a regular season game in any of the major professional sports leagues in North America (MLB, NFL, NBA, NHL, MLS).
 
A righthanded relief pitcher for the Orioles, the Mandan, ND, native pitched for UMary as a freshman in 2011. He started ten games for the Marauders, completed one, earned a victory and struck out 39 hitters in 49.1 innings. Flaa transferred to NCAA Division I North Dakota State University and was drafted by the Orioles in the in the 6^th round of the 2015 draft.
 
Flaa pitched 1.1 innings of scoreless relief in a 5-1 loss for Baltimore against the visiting New York Yankees. He induced former National League Most Valuable player Giancarlo Stanton to ground into a double play and struck out former American League home run champion Aaron Judge for the final out.

First big-league K for Jay Flaa.

Stephen already wrote the best caption for this. https://t.co/YPrIX96LIA pic.twitter.com/fSOGXsh0E7

— Baltimore Orioles 😷 (@Orioles) April 28, 2021

 
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