The season is barely a month old, it is May 3 and the Baltimore Orioles record stands at 8-22. They won only two series in April – at the New York Yankees and at home against the Detroit Tigers – which is terrible. No team in the American League has fewer wins, and the Birds’ run differential of minus 58 is horrendous.
This is not how the season was supposed to go. And, to make matters worse, it went down the tubes almost immediately after Opening Day. At least last year the club provided some entertainment by hanging around wild card contention until Labor Day.