Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: the Baltimore Orioles lost a baseball game tonight.
Their 5-4 loss to the Braves on Saturday was their 17th consecutive defeat, their 18th in 19 August games, and their 84th of the year to just 38 wins. They continue to be the worst team in baseball, perhaps at any level in any league.
Seventeen losses in a row. What do you even say at this point? Do you laugh? Do you cry? Do you go numb? Do you renounce baseball forever? What even...is this?
It’s a mark that’s been reached by just eight other teams in baseball’s modern era, and none in a decade.