With the Orioles already entrenched in their early-season tailspin at the beginning of this month, executive vice president Dan Duquette placed a Memorial Day timetable on determining the team’s ability to win in 2018.
Now, the Orioles approach Memorial Day on Monday having done little to improve the perception of the team from four weeks ago — that they are a wildly inconsistent club struggling to put together any winning momentum, thus further burying themselves in the American League East cellar.
They went into Sunday’s series finale at Tropicana Field able to collect their second road series win of the season, but with an 8-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, the Orioles (17-36) recorded their eighth non-winning road series out of nine this season as their majors-worst road record fell to 7-23.