Orioles clinch AL East title with win No. 100, announce new 30-year lease at OPACY

BALTIMORE, MD—The Baltimore Orioles have claimed the AL East title, something the club hasn’t done in 9 years.

Eleven days after securing a postseason berth for the first time since 2016, Baltimore accomplished its next goal on Thursday night. For the 10th time in team history — and the first since 2014 — the Orioles won the AL East title with a 2-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox at Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

During Thursday night’s home game vs. Boston, the Orioles also announced that the team, the State of Maryland, Governor Wes Moore, and the Maryland Stadium Authority had agreed to a deal that will allow the team to continue to play at Camden Yards for at least the next 30 years. The current lease was set to expire on December 31st.

Baltimore, which has won 100 games for the sixth time (and the first since going 100-62 in 1980), will be the No. 1 seed in the AL, meaning it will get a bye for the best-of-three Wild Card Series and open its postseason in the Division Series. Games 1 and 2 will take place October 7 and 8 at OPACY.

Following Thursday night’s game, Adam Frazier again stood in the back corner of the clubhouse passing out cigars. Every member of Baltimore’s roster was already donning orange shirts, backwards hats and green goggles as the music blared through the plastic-covered room.

The Orioles knew how celebrations worked now. And this time, the champagne bottles had specialty labels — ones that read: “American League East champions.”