Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1996, mai mallakar ƙungiyar Peter Angelos ya ɗauki Pat Gillick daga Toronto Blue Jays don zama babban manajan Orioles. Gillick ya kawo 'yan wasa da yawa kamar mai karɓar B. J. Surhoff, mai ba da taimako Randy Myers, da kuma na biyu baseman Roberto Alomar. A karkashin Gillick da manajan Davey Johnson, Orioles a karshe sun dawo wasan bayan wasan ta hanyar lashe kyautar katin daji na Amurka a kakar 1996. Teamungiyar ta kafa babban rikodin wasan ƙwallon ƙafa don gidaje a cikin kakar wasa ɗaya, tare da 257, kuma ta ɓata wa Cleveland Indians rai a cikin Rukunin Rukunin kafin ta faɗi ga New York Yankees a cikin Gasar Gasar Gasar Amurka mai rikitarwa
(wani fan, Jeffrey Maier, ya tsoma baki tare da ƙwallon ƙwallon da Derek Jeter ya buga a cikin wasa na 1; an yanke hukuncin wasan ne a gida kuma Yankees sun ci wasan a ƙarshe). Orioles ya biyo baya ta hanyar lashe taken AL East Division a 1997, yana zuwa "waya zuwa waya" (kasancewa a matsayi na farko daga ranar farko ta kakar wasa zuwa na karshe). Bayan kawar da Seattle Mariners a wasanni hudu a zagaye na farko, kungiyar ta sake rasa a cikin ALCS, a wannan lokacin ga Indians, wanda kowane asarar Oriole ya kasance ta hanyar gudu 1. Bayan da Orioles suka kasa ci gaba zuwa Wasannin Duniya a cikin kowane wasa, Johnson ya yi murabus a matsayin manajan bayan takaddama da Angelos, tare da kocin pitching Ray Miller ya maye gurbinsa.