While the Orioles have clinched a postseason berth, it’s not yet clear when they’ll play at Camden Yards during the playoffs, or who they’ll be playing.
Currently, you’ll have to either be a season ticket holder or commit to becoming one by the end of Tuesday to get tickets to the playoffs.
Those with 2023 season ticket packages should have already received information on how to get their postseason passes. Diamond and black-level ticket holders had to either pay for their membership in full or make a partial payment by Sept. 15 to get access.
Those with the more budget-friendly season ticket packages, Reserved Orange and Flex Birdland Members, should be getting an email early this week with a date and time for purchasing single-game postseason tickets. Orange members will get one game per series, as will Rookie and Pro Flex members. Veteran and Gold Glove members will get up to two games, while All-Star and MVP Flex members can get tickets to any possible home game.
If you aren’t on any of those plans, you can still get postseason tickets right now. The catch — you’ll have to pony up a deposit for a 2024 season ticket package. And you’ll have to do it by the end of Tuesday.
Otherwise, you’ll have to wait until tickets go on sale to the general public. The last time the Orioles made the playoffs, the general public sale came online Sept. 29, 2016
When the Orioles play and who they will face in the playoffs depends on how the next few weeks shake out. While the Orioles lead the American League East, the Tampa Bay Rays could overtake them during the remaining regular season games, which would relegate the Orioles to a wild-card slot.
The first segment of the postseason — Oct. 3, 4 and 5 — will consist of wild-card round games between the American League’s three wild-card teams and the division champion with the worst record.
If Baltimore tops the AL East, it will bypass this round, as the division champions with the two best records will get byes.It is impossible for the Orioles to have the third-best record of an AL division champion, as the current AL Central leader — the Minnesota Twins — cannot overcome Baltimore’s win-loss percentage in their remaining regular season games.
If Rays overtake them for the AL East title and the Orioles end up in the wild-card series, the Orioles will only retain home-field advantage if they keep the highest win-loss percentage outside the three division champions.
The American League Division Series — Oct. 7, 8, 10 and possibly 11 and 13 — will be a best-of-five series between two sets based on the results of the wild-card series. The top two division champions from the regular season — which the Orioles have a shot at taking — will play at home for the first, second and fifth games.
During the AL championships — on Oct. 15, 16, 18, 19 and possibly on Oct. 20, 22 and 23 — the team with the higher seed will get home-team advantage for four of the seven possible games. And the World Series, a best-of-seven game series on Oct. 27, 28, 30 and 31 with possible games on Nov. 1, 3 and 4, will be hosted by the team with the better regular-season record.
Baltimore Sun reporter Nathan Ruiz contributed to this article.
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