Baltimore clinched its first AL East title since 2014 with a 2-0 win over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night, the Orioles’ 100th win of the season.
BALTIMORE — Anthony Santander homered, DL Hall worked out of a sixth-inning jam and the Baltimore Orioles clinched the AL East title with a 2-0 victory over the Boston Red Sox on Thursday night.
Dean Kremer (13-5) allowed two hits and a walk in 5⅓ innings, striking out eight, and the Orioles reached 100 wins for the sixth time in team history and first since 1980. Baltimore prevailed in a brutal division that relegated the Red Sox and New York Yankees to afterthoughts.
Now the Orioles — two years after losing 110 games — will enter the postseason as the top seed in the American League.
It was a night of celebration at Camden Yards. The team announced on the scoreboard after the third inning that it had reached an agreement with the state keeping the Orioles in Baltimore for at least the next 30 years.
