Orioles news: Wild card standings, Basallo struggles

The Orioles have managed to creep closer to a wild card spot yet again. Thanks to losses by the Guardians and Rangers yesterday and the O's holding on to take down the Athletics, the team is now just a game back of the third wild card, with only Cleveland standing between the Orioles and a postseason position. The head-to-head tiebreaker will belong to the Guardians unless the Orioles sweep them next week. There are 26 games left to play this season.

Check out Andrea's recap of the Saturday night game for more of the lovely totals. This link will probably appear after this article has posted due to the game ending late on the east coast.

Separate from the outcome of last night's game, I'm feeling bad about Samuel Basallo after watching what he did in the game. In the middle of going hitless, he reacted to one of his at-bats by doing this in the dugout afterwards: