We are now into the final quarter of the 2022 season. Every game played from here on carries the same weight as any of the other 162 games in the season, but they also carry more weight, because each game’s outcome is locked in to the standings and there are fewer opportunities to change that. A win goes into the bank. A loss leaves a team needing an increasingly more miraculous run in order to change the math.
And so we consider the Orioles. They enter play tonight 2.5 games back of the third wild card spot, 3.