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The Orioles haven’t had a record better than .500 since June 11. Although this doesn’t sound like a circumstance that would leave them contending for anything except for the best October vacation plans, they remain only 2.5 games back of the second wild card spot in the American League. Whatever the Orioles are going to do the rest of the way, they have 44 games left to do it. The good news for them is that’s still a lot of games to be played. They have time to make a move in the standings if they can go on a hot streak. The bad news for the O’s is that if they don’t get that hot streak, they won’t get any closer and they’ll probably only fade back out of the race. For the last several weeks, Continue to Article

August 14, 2017 9:13:am EST

Boog Powell made his Oakland Athletics debut a day later than he planned. Powell, acquired from the Seattle Mariners last Sunday for Yonder Alonso, was fighting a cold and experienced an asthma attack he said had him breathing at about 50 percent. The breathing issue was the worst Powell could remember, and he only had a couple of asthma attacks as a child. Continue to Article

August 12, 2017 9:41:pm EST

If everything seems like it sucks for the Orioles right now, that’s probably because it is - but don’t worry, they’re still “just” two games back of a wild card spot. Two games is only two games, though they also have five teams to pass in order to get there. That’s a lot of teams to pass. One reason why it’s such a bummer to lose a game like last night’s is that Oakland is not a good team. These are supposed to be the gimme games. They traded away their best players before the non-waiver trade deadline, and even one afterwards. The Orioles were leading a game going into the eighth inning! And then they lost. It hurts. The good news is that they can get back into the win column today. All they Continue to Article

August 12, 2017 8:43:pm EST