The Orioles are main the American League East with lower than two months left within the common season, positioning Baltimore’s baseball group for its first playoff look since 2016.
MLB introduced its postseason schedule Tuesday, hinting at when the Orioles’ playoff run may start.
If Baltimore is unable to carry its lead within the AL East however lands one of many league’s three wild-card spots (or, in a much less probably state of affairs, wins the division with a worse report than the winners of the AL Central and AL West), the Orioles would seem within the AL wild-card sequence, which runs Oct. 3-5.
In these sequence, the highest two wild-card groups face off whereas the division winner with the worst report faces the third wild-card group. The larger seed hosts each recreation within the best-of-three matchup. ESPN will televise each the AL and NL wild-card sequence.
If Baltimore wins a wild-card sequence or finishes as one of many high two AL division champions, it might advance to the AL Division Series. The best-of-five sequence is scheduled to start Oct. 7 and go as late as Oct. 13, with video games airing on FS1 and Fox.
MLB modified its playoff format final season, rising the variety of postseason groups in every league to 6.
The Orioles haven’t reached the ALDS since 2014, once they most lately received the AL East. That was additionally their final look within the AL Championship Series, a best-of-seven sequence scheduled for Oct. 15-23 on FS1 and Fox.
If Baltimore wins the AL pennant — becoming a member of the 1983 group that was celebrated this previous weekend at Camden Yards — it might mark the franchise’s first in 40 years. The World Series is scheduled to start Oct. 27, with a possible Game 7 slated for Nov. 4. Fox will broadcast the sequence.
The solely postseason date that would battle with the neighboring Ravens is Oct. 22, when Baltimore’s NFL group hosts the Detroit Lions at 1 p.m. on the identical day Game 6 of the ALCS is scheduled, with a begin time unannounced. If the Orioles attain the ALCS as the upper seed within the matchup, that if-necessary recreation can be at Camden Yards.
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Source: www.bostonherald.com