Baltimore Orioles

Some Baltimore-area residents who have tuned the ballclub out during a long, but productive, rebuild, might need an introduction to these American League-leading Orioles.

Here’s everything you need to know about what the postseason could look like for the AL East champion and No. 1 seed Orioles.

The Orioles’ roster is filled with players like Tyler Wells, whose windy path serendipitously led to Thursday’s ninth inning. But few have reached highs as high — or lows as low — as Wells in 2023.

A young Orioles team will finish atop the toughest division in baseball, in the process showing how bright the club’s future is. The midgame announcement of a new 30-game lease means there’s no longer anything to distract from it.

Cheers from a boisterous crowd at Camden Yards rose to a constant roar during the ninth inning of Thursday night’s game and exploded in jubilation when the Orioles clinched the American League East with a 2-0 win over the Boston Red Sox.

The 2023 Orioles, a team of rising young stars, rebuild survivors, castoffs and veterans, blended together in harmony over the past six months to win the American League East on the night the team signed a new 30-year lease to remain in Baltimore.

While the Orioles' playoff-berth-clinching celebration last week was a champagne- and beer-soaked muddle, Thursday night's felt more like a calmer, cigar-lit soiree, perhaps with an eye toward more weighty celebrations.

The Orioles defeated the Boston Red Sox, 2-0, to win their 100th game of the season and clinch the franchise’s first American League East title since 2014.