The Baltimore Orioles are 3 Yankee outs away from taking over 1st in the AL East

[DeadlyDynasty]

Raise your hand if you predicted that shit at the beginning of the season.

[Reck]

Nope, not preditable at all but in the end Orioles will either just win 1 game or get swept in the playoffs.

Same with Washington and Oakland.

Too bad really because they have been playing great.

[DeadlyDynasty]

They've got a 4-game series coming up with the Yanks on Friday. Gonna be some good shit.

[Bill_Brasky]

Nope, not preditable at all but in the end Orioles will either just win 1 game or get swept in the playoffs.

Same with Washington and Oakland.

Too bad really because they have been playing great.

I bet a lot of people said that about the Cards last year too.

Amazing how baseball really just comes down to who's hot at the right time.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Amazing how baseball really just comes down to who's hot at the right time.
Yup.

The O's next 3 series are against the Yanks, Rays, and A's. They make it through those games and these nuccas just might be for real. More importantly, if they hold onto the East then they dodge that 1-game playoff bullshit.

[Clipper Nation]

Nope, not preditable at all but in the end Orioles will either just win 1 game or get swept in the playoffs.

Same with Washington and Oakland.

Too bad really because they have been playing great.

Baltimore and Oakland maybe, but Washington is legit, tbh.....

[AussieFanKurt]

Look at Orioles on paper and you wouldn't expect it but they are playing great. Death to the devil yankees

[Pelicans78]

Orioles have been the luckiest team in baseball. They're record in one run games and extra inning games are insanely good which is more luck than anything else. If the Cards make the playoffs, they will make a deep run. They're the opposite of the Orioles. They're unlucky in one run and extra inning games.

[Clipper Nation]

Yeah, but at what point does it stop being luck and start just being that the Orioles are good at winning 1-run games? They've kept it up all year, so I'm hesitant to call it a fluke, tbh....

[AussieFanKurt]

Orioles have been the luckiest team in baseball. They're record in one run games and extra inning games are insanely good which is more luck than anything else. If the Cards make the playoffs, they will make a deep run. They're the opposite of the Orioles. They're unlucky in one run and extra inning games.

Truth, the cards have a pitiful record in close games. It's frustrating

[ducks]

at one time they won 13 straight one run games
I do not know if that streak is over yet

[Pelicans78]

Yeah, but at what point does it stop being luck and start just being that the Orioles are good at winning 1-run games? They've kept it up all year, so I'm hesitant to call it a fluke, tbh....

Its usually a fluke. Most teams are around .500 in one run games or extra inning games. The Orioles are a huge exception. Why? Who knows, but most of the time its just being fortunate.

[FromWayDowntown]

It's good to see one of the great franchises of the past at least be relevant again in September. All the better that both the Orioles and the Pirates are doing it in the same year. And better still that they've done it prudently and patiently after making a lot of really stupid decisions for a very long time. It would truly be a baseball renaissance year if the Royals had managed to get it together -- having pennant races with Baltimore, Pittsburgh, and Kansas City would be like reliving 1979 without disco and leisure suits.

[The Gemini Method]

Throw in the A's and it's been a pretty cool season to watch for fans of Charm City and the Steel City. All three teams have done it with a microcosm of the spending spree that has indoctrined the Yanks, Angels, Dodgers, Red Sox, and Rangers. That's what appealed to me--the ability to have teams that are usually moribund losers are now contending in a mad dash to the second season.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Kinda sad, but I'm basically from Baltimore and never knew it was referred to as Charm City. I guess crabcakes, heroin, and murder are charming.

[Reck]

Sons I'm watching the Yankees and Orioles game and holy shit The Orioles are chilaking the Yankees real bad.

Something doesn't seem right with the Orioles hitters. They're hitting home runs on command.

6 in one and they are making it look effortlessly.

And if not by some good plays by granderson they would have 2 extra homeruns. Wow

I think that whole team needs to be check for PEDs.

[lefty]

Timmy2Zo :lol

[The Gemini Method]

Kinda sad, but I'm basically from Baltimore and never knew it was referred to as Charm City. I guess crabcakes, heroin, and murder are charming.

Well, L.A. is the City of Angels and it isn't really full of angels unless you count the fake plastic botox type. Then, well, you've got a city full of 'em. Crabcakes are charming...Heroin is too until the comedown for sure.

[Spursfan092120]

:lmao

Team Payroll
New York Yankees $ 197,962,289
Baltimore Orioles $ 81,428,999

[AussieFanKurt]

:lmao

Team Payroll
New York Yankees $ 197,962,289
Baltimore Orioles $ 81,428,999

Why don't the Yankees win every year with that pay roll

[Reck]

Why don't the Yankees win every year with that pay roll

Because its tough to win it any given year let alone every year?

You can spend whatever money you want, that's not going to guarantee you shit.

Just look at the Red Sox. They have the second highest pay roll in Baseball and they haven't even smell the playoffs 2 years running.

[ducks]

lousy excuse

the yankees are in deep shit
their average age is 32.8
they want to get below the luxury tax by 2014 189 million
they are old they gave up their young catcher this offseason.
swisher is a fa what are they going to do with him?
cano?
their closer this year?
looks like boston is going to rebuild will the yankees?
it would be a bad pr move bad trading some of those players for top notch prospects and get some youth might be a good idea
Older people take longer to heal and are more injury prone to
and slower on the bases and field

[ducks]

cc is 7-1 on road today loss again orioles
tonight he left trailing 5-2

[Reck]

Looks like even the umpires are on the Orioles bandwagon.

Calling tex out when the ball is like 2 feet away away from the first baseman. lol

Baseball has become quite the joke.

[Pelicans78]

No excuse for the lack of replay on plays like that. An embarrassment.

[AussieFanKurt]

:lmao at that umpire, that's worse than a mistake, he should lose his job

[DeadlyDynasty]

Yanks escape B-more with the division lead

[DeadlyDynasty]

Both teams are either tied or leading in the Top9 right now...and th're both tied atop the division still. Fun race, especially since the loser get the A's in a one game playoff

[DeadlyDynasty]

Walk-off win for the O's!

[Jacob1983]

What happens if Yankees, Orioles, and A's wind up with the same record at the end of the season? How many extra games are played in that scenario?

[AussieFanKurt]

Walk-off win for the O's!

They just keep doing it, wow they are good in close games or they have been this season

[FromWayDowntown]

What happens if Yankees, Orioles, and A's wind up with the same record at the end of the season? How many extra games are played in that scenario?

Since there are two wild cards this year, I think the Yankees and Orioles would play a one-game playoff to determine who wins the AL East and then the loser of the one game playoff would play the A's in the wild card game.

That assumes that there is no non-division winner with a better record.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Since there are two wild cards this year, I think the Yankees and Orioles would play a one-game playoff to determine who wins the AL East and then the loser of the one game playoff would play the A's in the wild card game.

That assumes that there is no non-division winner with a better record.
Since the O's have a better divisional record than NYY, wouldn't they automatically get the AL East nod, or does baseball work differently? I think they finished even in their season series iirc

[FromWayDowntown]

Since the O's have a better divisional record than NYY, wouldn't they automatically get the AL East nod, or does baseball work differently? I think they finished even in their season series iirc

From wikipedia, so take it for what it's worth, but:

"Beginning in the 2012 season, two teams that are tied for a division championship play a tie breaking game even if both teams have already qualified for the postseason (meaning one of them would be awarded a wild card berth)."

[Flintstones32]

O's win again today by 1 run in 14 innings. Just wow.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I gotta catch a game at CG before the season is over...hell yes I'm jumping their bandwagon for the rest of the year.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Yankees just won't budge

[Lincoln]

Glad to see Rangers North doing well, it's about time. Rooting for them as well tnh

[Lincoln]

Their relievers are very solid, just a shaky Rotation IMO.

[Reck]

Yankees just won't budge

When a team goes to face the Red Sox is like early christmas. :lol

I dont know what you could have expected out of that series. lol

[DeadlyDynasty]

Stalemate on the Eastern Front last night

[AussieFanKurt]

Hope the Orioles get up in the end, always good to see the underdog win

[J.T.]

The good thing about Baltimore possibly becoming a surprise late season addition to the postseason this year is they're in the AL, so they don't apply to the whole "Rangers Can't Beat Team of Destiny That Clinched On Last Day in World Series" curse. But I am rooting for them to curb-stomp Oakland tonight.

[Reck]

Loving how everyone is jumping on Baltimore's bandwagon.

What is it exactly? The universal hate for the Yankees or the fact that Orioles is just winning and that by itself brings the "fans" out from under their rock after all these years?

I dont really like the Yankees myself but I'm certainly not going get on the Orioles because they came out of nowhere to cheer from them.

[DeadlyDynasty]

Hell yes. Fuck the Yankees.

[Flintstones32]

Hell yes. Fuck the Yankees.

[Reck]

Well they just won so they wont lose first place tonight. lol

[AussieFanKurt]

Loving how everyone is jumping on Baltimore's bandwagon.

What is it exactly? The universal hate for the Yankees or the fact that Orioles is just winning and that by itself brings the "fans" out from under their rock after all these years?

I dont really like the Yankees myself but I'm certainly not going get on the Orioles because they came out of nowhere to cheer from them.

Surely it's the universal hate for the yankees

[Reck]

And Yankees take sole posession of first place.

[AussieFanKurt]

And Cardinals lose yet another 1 run game, it's just assumed they will always lose close games now. Wish they could close out games and get some luck like the Orioles

[Reck]

I'm really dissapointed in the Cards.

[AussieFanKurt]

Same here, so much talent. Do the stupidest fucking things in game. Yadi... probably the slowest base runner in the league tried to stretch third verse Kemp at the top of the 9th with no outs.. why?

[Jacob1983]

Orioles shitting a brick right now.

[Ryan Fitzpatrick]

15 straight extra-inning wins. This is one of the craziest things I've ever seen in sports. Props to the O's