The 2021 Kansas City Royals have been a bad team, let’s not make any excuses. On pace for 90 losses, the team has suffered a pair of truly awful losing streaks along the way—an 11-gamer in early May, and a 9-game skid in late June.
But the Royals don’t hold a candle to the worst teams in baseball. A few weeks after the Royals stopped their 11-game streak, the Baltimore Orioles topped it with a magnificently terrible 14-game losing streak of their own. And as I type this now, the Baltimore Orioles are in the midst of a 17-game losing streak.