It is difficult to imagine a modern baseball team having a worse season than the 2003 Detroit Tigers. With their dismal 43-119 record, the team surpassed the previous American League losses record that had previously been held by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1919, at 117 losses. They came within only a single loss of having the all-time worst season in modern baseball, a dubious honor held by the 1963 New York Mets.
The Baltimore Orioles are in the unpleasant position of potentially tying the Tigers record. With twelve regular season games left to play, if the Orioles were to lose all twelve, they would end the season with the exact same record as the Tigers did in 2003.