Orioles’ youngest fan
Adley, Glen Burnie hospital’s first-born baby of 2024, gets visit from the Oriole Bird
It’s Adley’s year.
Sure, Orioles catcher Adley Rutschman — but also Adley Michelle Jobst, the first baby born in 2024 at Glen Burnie’s University of Maryland Baltimore Washington Medical Center.
Adley came into the world Jan. 1 just before 2 a.m., taking the name of her mother Amanda Jobst’s favorite Baltimore baseball player. On Thursday, the Brooklyn Park family got a special visit from the Oriole Bird himself, who presented the newborn with a baseball signed by her namesake.
“It’s crazy to think that Adley Rutschman knows my daughter exists,” said Jobst, 37.
The afternoon visit was coordinated by the hospital and the Orioles, she said,
and Adley slept through it, only stirring when the Bird held her.
“We always say that our organization is bigger than baseball, and this truly proves that. It says a lot about our players, and who they are as people, that our fans want to name their children after them,” the
Orioles wrote in an email to The Baltimore Sun.
Baby Adley may be one of the latest to share a name with the popular Orioles catcher, but surely won’t be the last, her mother speculated, in part due to Rutschman’s name frequently making it into the news.
Jobst said she and her husband, Robert Jobst, settled definitively on the name Adley when she was around six months pregnant, after first taking notice of the name when Rutschman made his Major League debut.
“Not only is he a great ball player, but I think he is also a great human being who has really given kids that think they want to play in the majors somebody to look up to,” she said.
The couple’s own Adley came as a surprise, being the family’s first daughter with four older brothers. Born weighing exactly 7 pounds, she’s bound to become an Orioles fan, said her mother, who hopes she might also play softball or baseball when she’s older.
“I don’t think life is ever going to be boring with this little girl,” Jobst said.