If you’re still following this God-awful stretch of Orioles baseball - and seeing as you’re reading this, you probably are - then you probably heard Brandon Hyde’s comments after Thursday’s game.
In the moments following a 7-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays, a barnburner compared to the other efforts the Orioles have put on display in this 18-game march of misery, Hyde gave up the pretense of putting a good spin on so much bad. He painted the picture as he truly saw it.
“We’re not in many games and that’s hard,” Hyde said.