The Orioles played to a 9-16 record in April, told themselves it was taking some time to get hot… then played to a 9-18 record in May.

The season may be lost already, and the fanbase is still dazed, trying to figure out what went wrong. But with the team seemingly bouncing back, having won eight of its last ten games, there’s a chance to learn a bit from the mistakes.

The big question is, was this bad planning or bad luck? Here are some things that accounted for a terrible May, and what’s changed.

Injuries and underperforming replacements

On April 28, the Orioles lost Jordan Westburg to a hamstring injury and, having suffered a setback in his recovery, he’s still not back. What the Orioles tried in place of Westburg’s high-contact, middle-of-the-order bat: a 3:1 ratio of Ramón Urías an

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