Such is the plight of a team plummeting toward the bottom of baseball’s record books that on a night when they didn’t exactly deserve their fate, they lost and hit the round number of 50 games below .500.
The Orioles’ 2-1 loss to the Cleveland Indians on Friday made them one of 35 teams in baseball history to lose 50 more of their first 122 games than they won, and the first since the 119-loss Detroit Tigers of 2003, who were 31-91 at this point in the season. The 1962 New York Mets, whose 120 losses were the most in the modern era, were 30-92 through 122 games.