Mojo, sure.

Do you know which teams have mojo? The ones with the most good players or alternatively the ones with the fewest bad players.

The Orioles have more players than they woke up with Sunday morning, as Jordan Westburg and Ramón Urías have returned from the injured list. They will have their full team when Ryan Mountcastle returns next week. It's all happening just in time.

This is what this team and this city have been waiting for as the days have grown cooler and shorter. They have also been waiting for the Orioles to clinch their playoff spot, and by all the calculations of what it would have taken at home, simply winning this series would have been enough.

It's a shame they didn't do that, and it would have been just as shameful if they hadn't had another chance to put their best foot forward on the field, especially here at Camden Yards.

This team hasn't been at its best in a long time, and the fact that they leave here without securing a playoff spot is proof of that. There are many reasons for that, but with Westburg and Urías, they now have two fewer excuses.

The Orioles may have lost on Sunday, but look at the lineup they started with at home on Tuesday. This version has a much better chance of making the playoffs than that one, even if it didn't work out on Sunday.

Urías and Westburg were part of that demonstration in the fifth inning. Urías, overqualified to bat eighth because of his pre-injury form, hit a single from that spot. One batter later, Cedric Mullins hit a home run in the ninth, bringing his OPS back above .700. At that point in the game, every Orioles batter, 1-9, was above that mark. Mullins has had far higher lineup assignments of late, but now the top three spots in the Orioles' lineup are reserved for All-Stars.

The best of them, Gunnar Henderson, drew a walk after Mullins' home run. Then Westburg hit a scoring double into the gap, the kind of hit that only anecdotally felt the Orioles had been lacking in the seven-plus weeks since he went on the injured list, and immediately the sold-out crowd at Camden Yards was reminded that this is the team that had such high hopes placed on it.

Not the one that has been slogging through the last month and more, holding serve admirably, but this with young talent battling to find themselves or other teams' outcasts on the court every night. Their contributions are always noted, and they're still better than the waiver wire finds of years past.

Westburg and Urías strengthen the Orioles' lineup with more than just their defensive reliability. That's eight or nine consistent professional at-bats a night, and although September's performance has dipped when it counts, the Orioles' six regulars during that span — Henderson, Adley Rutschman, Mullins, Ryan O'Hearn, Colton Cowser and Anthony Santander — still had a combined OPS of .755 and a wRC+ of 116 this month.

That would be comfortably in the top third of baseball if it weren't for the rest of the team. Well, the rest of the team is better.

For opponents, that means no respite while the lineup changes. If you get in trouble with the top of the Orioles' lineup, capable run producers are waiting on base with them. If you can't get the bottom of the lineup out, you simply turn the lineup over to a trio of All-Stars, often the players who have done the most for those Orioles. Having Westburg at the top of the lineup takes the pressure off the stars around him. If Urías stabilizes things at the bottom, this team will be better. Mountcastle will form a complete first-base platoon with O'Hearn, rather than forcing the latter to play every day.

It could all be too little, too late. But there is no magic potion that makes teams win. It's all about having as many good players as possible. The Orioles have a chance because they now have a whole team full of good players.