There haven’t been many, if any, managers who can relate to what Brandon Hyde has endured over the past three weeks and, frankly, this season. His Orioles are on a 19-game losing streak, their second skid lasting beyond a fortnight. Many of this drought’s games, including the latest, have been out of hand early. Only one wasn’t decided by multiple runs.
But his former boss, Joe Maddon, said before he managed the Los Angeles Angels to a 14-8 victory Tuesday night at Camden Yards that he believes himself to be one of them. His comparisons stem from his first two full seasons leading what were then the Tampa Bay Devil Rays, who lost 101 games in 2006 and 96 in 2007.