Hey, have you heard the news? THE ORIOLES ARE NOW IN A WILD CARD SPOT! They came into Friday night’s game with very simple stakes: Beat the Rays and climb past them for the third wild card position in the American League. The Orioles made an emphatic statement that they belong, dropping 19 hits on Tampa on the way to a 10-3 victory in the first game of the series. With 50 games left to play, the O’s are in there. Now they have to stay there.
This game had a little bit of everything. It had two different Orioles hitting home runs off the C-ring catwalk at the Trop.