Fresh off yesterday’s demoralizing Orioles near-perfect game loss that also put them 1.5 games back of the Rays in the wild card race and gave the Rays the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the O’s, it’s easy to feel like their hopes for getting into the postseason must be over. The game was a crucial one, it’s true, and it’s unfortunate that the Orioles lost, but they have another opportunity to help their wild card position in the three-game series against the Blue Jays that begins today.
The Jays were also losers yesterday. That’s true every day, but specifically they lost their game to the Guardians, 7-2.