It’s no secret the Baltimore Orioles are struggling to put runs across home plate.
After being shut out, 6-0, on Sunday, marking the fifth shutout loss of the season, manager Buck Showalter was visibly frustrated by his team’s inability to score.
“I think you’re being nice when you say a little,” Showalter said postgame of the assertion that the struggles have been small ones, per Jon Meoli of the Baltimore Sun. “It’s been a challenge for us most of the year.”
Then, Showalter perhaps inadvertently made us chuckle about his team’s struggles at the plate.
“I’m going to always give credit to the starting pitcher for them. … We’ve had success against good pitchers before, and it’s a good situation for other pitchers right now — because they’re really good, and we’re not swinging the bats well. That’s a bad combination.”
No doubt, opposing pitchers that have Baltimore coming up on their schedules aren’t exactly shaking in their boots with fear. Aside from Manny Machado, the O’s are downright awful when it comes to producing at the plate.
Given the fact that Baltimore is now 17-37 on the season, the flood of Machado trade rumors aren’t going to go away, any time soon, either.