It is one of the time-worn truisms of baseball that over the course of the long major league season, every team will win 50 games and every team will lose 50 games. What separates the great teams from the mediocre and just-plain-awful teams is what happens in the other 62.
The way things are going at the moment, the Orioles cannot even assume they’ll get to 50.
The 8-24 record they took into Saturday night’s game against the Oakland Athletics at Oakland Coliseum isn’t difficult to project over a whole season. The Orioles have won exactly 25 percent of their games, which means that they project at the moment to finish with 40½ victories over the full schedule.