When MASN Sports Orioles reporter Roch Kubatko headed to Ed Smith Stadium one day during spring training in 2014, he couldn’t have anticipated how his life was about to change. Nor could he have imagined who would help affect that change.
Kubatko had arranged to meet with Emily Alt so she could interview him for her writing class at Towson University while she was in Sarasota, Fla. After Kubatko wasn’t able to find her before the game, he headed into the press box to prepare for that day’s game. It didn’t take long, though, for Kubatko to be alerted by Wanda Domoracki that Alt was outside the press box, though Domoracki sensed that Kubatko was particularly busy on this day.
“When I went in the press box, I almost hated to tell him that there was someone out there,” Domoracki said. “I said, ‘Roch, there’s this young lady out there that would love to talk to you, something about an interview.’ And you could tell that he was almost thinking of saying no. He had a lot of work to do. And I said, ‘Roch, she’s cute.’ And with that, he just laughed. He said, ‘OK. I’ll go and talk to her.’ And of course I said, ‘Roch, this is Emily. Emily, of course you know that this is Roch.’ And that was it.”
