​BALTIMORE — Adley Rutschman reported to his longtime workplace on Thursday, Sept. 3, greeted several longtime Camden Yards staffers and made the well-worn walk into the Baltimore Orioles’ clubhouse.He prepared for a game that will be attended by hundreds, if not thousands of fans wearing his jersey as he resumed the fight for an American League wild-card spot.But the stopover in the Orioles’ clubhouse was only to exchange hugs and laughs and talk some smack with his friends. His pregame prep was in service of catching Boston Red Sox starter Jake Bennett, not Orioles rookie Brandon Young.And the socks and undershirt and all other trappings he pulled on were not in the black and orange of the Orioles – or his college, Oregon State – but rather the red of Boston’s Olde Towne Team.Rutschman’s professional life was turned upside down five weeks ago, when the only organization he knew, the one he led out of the darkness of a rebuild and into the playoffs traded him north, within the division, to a club that now finds itself running the same wild-card race that his friends on the Orioles are desperate to stay in.And in his first at-bat as a visiting player, Rutschman showed why he became a franchise staple in Baltimore. He drilled a Brandon Young curveball 377 feet, giving the Red Sox a 1-0 lead in the top of the first and leaving little doubt who he works for now. When club president Mike Elias, who made Rutschman the No. 1 overall pick in 2019 and the first selection in his career, dealt Rutschman to Boston in a seven-player trade Aug. 3, it brought Rutschman and his pals to tears. They were simply trying to go to a movie.Instead, the plug was pulled on a movement, on a young core that led the Orioles to consecutive playoff appearances, a friend group busted up by the business of baseball.And so upon his return Thursday, Rutschman filibustered most of a 10-minute session with a larger throng of media than almost any he encountered as an Oriole by talking of page-turning, and new opportunities and a positive acclimation.Yet he realizes he left behind a significant amount of unfinished business in Charm City.“At the time, absolutely you always want to be able to achieve the goals that you set at the beginning of the year,” Rutschman said of his mindset after Elias called and told him to pack his bags for Boston. “And in years past, you set goals to win the World Series and come up short.“But then you have a new opportunity. And a new situation. And today’s a new day.”That day came with the Red Sox in an appreciably better position than his old team. Elias deal Rutschman, reliever Tyler Wells and outfielder Taylor Ward on Aug. 3 because he said the club didn’t play well enough – it was 54-58 on deadline day – to justify continuing on.Since then, the Orioles have gotten it together, kind of, beginning play Thursday at 69-71 and one game out of a wild-card berth – though with three teams to vault.The Red Sox? Their crazy 21-4 run