The Orioles Are Bad and It Just Might Get Worse

With 18 straight losses, and a tough stretch of games, Baltimore could set a futility record. The stripped-down roster being part of a larger plan doesn’t make it any easier to watch.

Dylan Bundy tried his best to give a promising vision of the future. This was at spring training in 2019, when the Baltimore Orioles had finished the previous season as the worst team in the major leagues. They were bad and they knew it, but teams like that can always cling to hope. “I think we’ll look back maybe a year or two from now and see what we had this year,” Bundy said, “and it’ll be kind of a special moment to see what we’ve become.” Bundy now pitches for the Los Angeles Angels, and he will face the Orioles at Camden Yards in Baltimore on Tuesday. He will see firsthand what his old friends have become: the franchise that just can’t win.