The good news for the Orioles is that they're back at .500 and 1.5 games out of the second wild-card spot. The bad news is that six other teams are 3.5 games or less out of that spot.
Since Major League Baseball added a second wild-card team in 2012, the Orioles have attained that spot twice -- in 2012 when they won 93 games and in 201 when they won 89 games.
The past 10 American League teams that have qualified for the wild-card have averaged just less than 90 wins a season, and no team has been a wild-card qualifier with fewer than the 86 wins the Houston Astros had in 2015.
