The Orioles offense did a solid for struggling Cardinals veteran Adam Wainwright in letting him finally get career win #200 but Mark would have much rather seen them do a solid for their own playoff hopes. Fortunately, the Rays also lost. The big positive story from the game is John Means making his return, what was an encouraging outing even if the basic line of 5 IP, 3 ER is not so encouraging. From the mailbag, a listener wants to know what would count as a successful playoffs for these O's.

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