You guys. Are the Orioles...good? Like, making the playoffs good?
Don’t go bristling at the notion. Spare me your Jim Mora “playoffs, are you kidding me?” gifs in the comments. Just look at what happened tonight.
The Orioles played a practically perfect game of baseball. They set or tied season highs in runs scored, home runs, total bases, and extra-base hits, while their woebegone former ace rediscovered the form that made him the AL’s best rookie pitcher last season. And while the Birds were delivering their 11-2 beatdown on the Mets, elsewhere in the state, the New York Yankees lost their fifth straight game, putting the Orioles just half a game back of the final wild card slot with 19 games to go.