Orioles manager Brandon Hyde, on the eve of the final game of the mathematical first half of his first season in charge of the worst team in baseball, said he didn't know what the team's record was before Friday's series-opener against the Cleveland Indians.
That their 23-58 mark through 81 games is tied for the second-worse since baseball shifted to a 162-game schedule in 1962 may be part of the reason he doesn't want to look. He's more focused on getting the team back to playing in a manner that, quite simply, doesn't feel as if they're losing so often.