Over half of the league gets to keep playing after Sunday with expanded playoffs this season. The game that solidified that the Orioles won’t be one of them was, perhaps not coincidentally, about as lousy as they’ve played all year.
In an 8-3 loss to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park, the Orioles made three errors and continued their low-scoring ways to render the rest of their five-game road trip moot.
A Toronto Blue Jays loss kept the Orioles (23-32) five games out of the last wild-card playoff spot with five games to play, though their 1-6 record so far against Toronto means they Blue Jays hold the head-to-head tiebreaker.