Orioles’ 2025 offensive ineptitude has reached truly embarrassing levels

The Baltimore Orioles have been hard to watch in 2025. A team that not long ago was praised for its explosive young core and high-upside offense, now find themselves among the league’s most offensively challenged squads. Shutout eight times already this season — tied for third-most in all of Major League Baseball and the most in the American League alongside the Cleveland Guardians — the Orioles' offensive decline has turned from slump to full-blown crisis.

In a surprising stretch in the final two weeks of June, the Orioles were nearly no-hit three times in six games. The first punch came at the hands of New York Yankees right-hander Clarke Schmidt, who mowed down the Orioles lineup for seven dominant innings before yielding to a JT Brubaker who lost the combined no-hit bid in the eighth.

Then came the Texas Rangers’ Jacob Latz, a 29-year-old journeyman making just his third big-league start, who dominated Baltimore across six hitless frames. Just when it couldn’t get worse, Jacob deGrom — a future Hall of Famer but still working his way back into form — was perfect through six innings and carried a no-hitter into the eighth before Colton Cowser finally broke it up.

Orioles’ offense in shambles amid alarming 2025 skid

Cowser himself, after the deGrom game, tried to strike a defiant tone when asked about the struggles.

“It’s baseball, I’m not concerned about it,” Cowser told The Baltimore Sun. “I think that every day we’re just trying to go out there and execute a plan and approach. Sometimes if a pitcher is able to get us outside of that approach, we’re not going to have as much success.”

It’s a noble sentiment. But the scoreboard tells a completely different story. They rank 23rd in the majors in runs scored, 23rd in batting average, and are league-average at best in wRC+ (16th). This is no longer an isolated slump.

What’s worse is how this team was constructed. The Orioles were never built to pitch their way out of trouble. Their rotation and bullpen were assembled to support an offense expected to carry the load. But with the bats consistently failing, there’s no safety net. The moment the lineup collapses, the whole system folds. That’s exactly what’s happening now — and it’s reflected in the standings. The Orioles are hovering 12 games below .500 with the worst run differential and lowest run total in the AL East.

Players can say the right things to the media. They can downplay the concern. But anyone watching closely can read between the lines. This looks like a team defeated — not just by opponents, but by their own expectations. With over half the season still to play, the Orioles are already giving off the vibe of a team that’s emotionally checked out and mentally preparing for 2026.

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