Sunday’s 10-5 thumping of the visiting New York Yankees delivered the Orioles to the 40-game mark at 17-23 — a slight improvement on how they played the shortened 2020 season, albeit with an ominously long schedule still before them.
Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias said Sunday that at the quarter-mark of his third season overseeing this rebuild, the progress some of the players they envision being around Camden Yards for years to come is brightening his vision of the year for a club that’s had a “competitive and pesky 40 games,” even if their record isn’t what he wants it to be.