The Orioles are leading the American League East with less than two months left in the regular season, positioning Baltimore’s baseball team for its first playoff appearance since 2016. MLB announced its postseason schedule Tuesday, hinting at when the Orioles’ playoff run could begin. If Baltimore is unable to hold its lead in the AL East but lands one of the league’s three wild-card spots (or, in a less likely scenario, wins the division with a worse record than the winners of the AL Central and AL West), the Orioles will appear in the AL wild-card series, which runs Oct.