If months of watching the preposterously putrid 2018 Orioles have made you forget what a good baseball team looks like, never fear! You’ll see plenty of them down the stretch. Five AL teams have all but punched their ticket to the playoffs, and the Orioles will play four of those teams in the remaining three weeks of the season. They’ll begin with the Oakland Athletics in a three-game set at Camden Yards.
The A’s are comfortably ahead of Seattle (7.5 games) for the second wild card spot, so they’re a lock to make the postseason for the first time since 2014.