Sunday, May 28: Orioles try to avoid being swept for the first time all year

[Uli2001]

Oakland is on pace for 132 losses.

[TopGunnar]

Wasn’t able to follow today. Nice job not getting swept l. If you throw away Graysons start we probably have 3 tight competitive games against a top team 

[SteveA]

We split the season series with Texas.

If we tie them for a wildcard spot, that is the first tiebreaker, and it is tied.

The second tiebreaker is divisional record in your own division.   So our record vs the AL East compared to their record vs the AL West.   Oakland is in their division.   So it seems very likely that Texas would have the tiebreaker against us if we tied for a wild card spot.   

If that is the case:  If the tie was for the #3 wildcard spot, we could miss the playoffs based on that.   If the tie was for the #1 wild card spot vs the #2 wild card spot, we would be #2 and would have to go to Texas for all 3 games of the best of 3 wild card series, as opposed to them having to come here for all 3.

[Uli2001]

4 hours ago, SteveA said:

We split the season series with Texas.

If we tie them for a wildcard spot, that is the first tiebreaker, and it is tied.

The second tiebreaker is divisional record in your own division.   So our record vs the AL East compared to their record vs the AL West.   Oakland is in their division.   So it seems very likely that Texas would have the tiebreaker against us if we tied for a wild card spot.   

If that is the case:  If the tie was for the #3 wildcard spot, we could miss the playoffs based on that.   If the tie was for the #1 wild card spot vs the #2 wild card spot, we would be #2 and would have to go to Texas for all 3 games of the best of 3 wild card series, as opposed to them having to come here for all 3.

Excellent point. No wonder Texas showed up with that much urgency. They were down 1-2.