Credit: Associated Press
The Baltimore Orioles know they have to win almost every game remaining in order to reach the playoffs.
''It's not about all the other games anymore,'' Adam Jones said after hit a go-ahead, two-run single with two outs in a four-run eighth inning lifted the Orioles over the Tampa Bay Rays 4-3 Thursday night. ''If we lose, we're not going to get there. If we win, that's all we can do.''
Baltimore won for the seventh time in nine games and closed within 4 1/2 games of Houston for the AL's second wild card with 16 games left.