In the American League, four teams are competing for the final two wild-card spots. The Kansas City Royals (82-72) and Minnesota Twins (81-73) would make the playoffs if the season ended today. The Tigers (80-74) and Seattle Mariners (79-75) are still in the race.

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The Orioles finally cooled off the red-hot Tigers, with heroes likely and unlikely stepping up to hand Detroit their first loss in a week. In truth, Detroit was in a tough spot from the start, as they were using an opener-follower strategy with Tyler Holton and Keider Montero to counter Corbin Burnes.

With the Minnesota Twins' loss to the Cleveland Guardians on Thursday afternoon, the Tigers (80-73) and Twins have identical records for the third wild-card position. However, the Twins own the season head-to-head tiebreaker over the Tigers, so the Tigers will need to finish with a better record.

Colton Cowser hit his 21st and 22nd home runs, James McCann added his sixth and seventh and the Orioles went deep a season-high five times in a 7-1 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night.

The Tigers are tied with the Minnesota Twins for the last American League wild-card spot, though the Twins own a tiebreaker.

Despite this, the Orioles enter this weekend’s series against the Tigers with the possibility of clinching a spot in the postseason and potentially even clinching the home field position for the wild card round.