Throughout much of this early portion of his tenure as the Orioles manager, Brandon Hyde has maintained positivity when it came to the flaws of the roster the organization’s rebuild presented.
But Tuesday afternoon, in the wake of Monday night’s 10-7 loss to the New York Yankees in which the Orioles led by five after five innings, Hyde said accountability is also needed for a team that made several fundamental defensive miscues en route to the evaporation of its lead.
Left fielder Dwight Smith Jr. made a run-producing throwing error in the seventh, and both he and right fielder Joey Rickard bypassed their cutoff men on ninth-inning throws and allowed Yankees base runners to advance.