After each mounting loss in the record beside their team’s name, Orioles players and coaches alike say it's simply a matter of them putting it together. Those elusive three phases coalescing will turn things around, they say.
But what happens instead is they continue to completely, and fully, fall apart.
Sunday's 2-1 loss to the Oakland Athletics was their sixth straight and 12th overall on the road. It's their second straight six-game road trip without a win, this one taking them through Anaheim and Oakland and dropping them to 8-26, the worst record in the major leagues.