Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Kafin kakar wasa ta 1996, Angelos ya ɗauki Pat Gillick a matsayin babban manajan. Ganin koren haske don ciyarwa sosai a kan ƙwarewar da aka kafa, Gillick ya sanya hannu kan manyan 'yan wasa da yawa kamar B. J. Surhoff, Randy Myers, David Wells da Roberto Alomar. A karkashin sabon kocin Davey Johnson kuma a kan ƙarfin babban rikodin manyan wasannin 257 na gida a cikin kakar wasa guda, Orioles sun dawo cikin wasan bayan shekaru 12 ba tare da kasancewa ba ta hanyar samun AL wild card. Alomar ya haifar da guguwa a watan Satumba lokacin da ya tofa a fuskar mai kula da gidan gida John Hirschbeck yayin jayayya a Toronto. Daga baya an dakatar da shi don wasanni biyar na farko na kakar wasa ta 1997, duk da cewa yawancin sun so a dakatar da shi daga postseason. Bayan da suka yi nasara da Cleveland Indians 3 zuwa 1 a gasar Division Series, Orioles sun fadi a hannun Yankees 4 zuwa 1 a ALCS
sananne ne saboda gazawar alkalin wasa na dama Rich Garcia ya kira tsangwama na magoya baya a wasan farko na jerin, lokacin da dan wasan Yankee mai shekaru 12 mai suna Jeffrey Maier ya isa bangon filin waje don kama kwallon da ke cikin wasa, wanda aka ci a matsayin wasan gida ga Derek Jeter, yana daidaita wasan a 4 × 4 a cikin wasa na takwas. Ba tare da sa hannun Maier ba, ya bayyana kamar ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙwallon ƙafa. Yankees sun ci gaba da lashe wasan a cikin ƙarin innings a kan gidan gida mai zuwa ta hanyar Bernie Williams.