Monday night Orioles game thread: at Phillies, 6:45

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The Orioles have 50 games to play between now and season’s end. Every one of them will be another little test to see how well the core players can help to restore good feelings about the team heading into next season. Every one will offer a different test to players who are more on the fringe of that picture, or maybe who aren’t in the picture at all, to see if they can play themselves into deserving roles on that team.

The key for me is that I don’t want to see the Orioles wasting this period of time by handing out playing time to jabronis…