Hello, friends.
Another day dawns with the Orioles in third place in the AL East. They are 3.5 games out of first place, which sounds like a bit of a hill to climb, and it is, but keep in mind that there are two divisions in MLB where the second place team is more than 10 games behind, so it could be worse.
Two days of relative ease await the Orioles now, not that they can take it easy against the Pirates - but the Pirates are clearly not the same class of team as the Yankees and the Red Sox, based on their performance this year.