Hello, friends.
Here we are in the last week of the season. The home stretch for the Orioles, although unfortunately for them, the home stretch will happen entirely on the road. Thanks to a favorable Monday, they will enter the series one game behind Toronto for the top wild card spot and two games ahead of Detroit for the road wild card spot.
What all that adds up to is that the Orioles magic number is five with six games to play. It's good to have a magic number, although the magic number isn't going to do them any good if they don't show up in Toronto and New York and win at least half of their remaining games.