Mojo is tough to track down in Baltimore these days. At least, it is for the city’s sports teams.

Just two days after Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson proclaimed “We’ve got to find our mojo,” following an upset loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, Orioles executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias offered a similar diagnosis Tuesday afternoon for the ballclub on the other side of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

“We’ve been accustomed to winning,” Elias said in a news conference from the Orioles’ dugout at Camden Yards. “We went more than a calendar year without getting swept. Just things like that, the mojo that we’ve had, it just has drifted away from us the last few months and obviously, there are reasons for it that are obvious, but I do think a lot of it is we’ve got people here that are experiencing a downturn — whether it’s themselves or the team — for the first time together in this group.

“We’re all sick of it.”

For nearly three months, winning hasn’t come easily for the Orioles. Since posting a 49-25 record to begin the season — a start capped off by a 17-5 thumping of the division rival Yankees on June 20 — they’ve gone an uninspiring 35-42 to fall four games back of New York in the American League East. Though they still maintain a comfortable lead for a playoff spot via the wild-card round, the Orioles haven’t played like a team with World Series aspirations in months.

There are plenty of fingers to point. Chief among them are the injuries Baltimore has suffered this season with every corner of its roster affected. Though the Orioles addressed their depleted pitching staff at the trade deadline with the additions of Zach Eflin and Seranthony Domínguez, among others, their offense has also endured a stunning drop-off in production. Elias shared positive updates on several sidelined stars such as Jordan Westburg and Ryan Mountcastle, but acknowledged their hitting depth has been tested more than the Orioles expected.

“Ultimately, I put the roster together, I put the staff together, I put the personnel together,” Elias said. “Results in this business, whether it’s this year or other years, it starts right here with me. But [acquiring pitching has] been, I think, our focus this year, and the testing of our depth and a lot of depth we’ve lost is not something I anticipated in this degree in the second half on the position player side.”

The injuries are significant, but the extended slumps from some of their most reliable hitters have been too. Adley Rutschman entered play Tuesday with a .604 OPS since the All-Star break. Ryan O’Hearn hasn’t fared much better at .643. Top prospects Jackson Holliday (.521) and Coby Mayo (.286) have struggled to acclimate to the majors. Even Westburg and Mountcastle were scuffling before landing on the injured list.

Despite the uneven results, Elias reinforced his confidence in the Orioles’ coaching staff and the players they oversee. Echoing the sentiments of manager Brandon Hyde and players in the clubhouse, the seventh-year executive believes the real problem lies with Orioles hitters pressing at the plate to make up for the injury losses around them.

“When we’ve gone through an unsuccessful couple of months like this, a lot of it is stuff that’s out of people’s control but obviously not everybody is approaching their jobs, their execution, their own processes perfectly and that starts with me,” Elias said. “I look at that but it does not affect my belief in the people that we’ve selected to play on this team, to coach this team, to do their jobs.”

The Orioles, particularly on the position player side, are young. Gunnar Henderson, Rutschman and the rest of Baltimore’s prized draft picks have yet to experience this level of adversity in a season in which the weight of high expectations befell them. While the losing has created mounting frustration in the clubhouse, the Orioles have veteran voices such as O’Hearn, starting pitcher Corbin Burnes and catcher James McCann to steer their focus.

In the end, however, their young stars will be leaned on to power a title run.

“You just keep reminding them to not look too far ahead, to not look too far behind, just try to stay in the present moment every single pitch, every single inning,” Hyde said.” We’re just having a tough time with everybody, collectively as an offensive group, rolling good at-bats after good at-bats together. This offense has the ability to do it. It’s one of those where, just got to stay positive. Got to stay positive. Got to stay behind them and believe that we’re going to come out of this thing.”

Whether it’s mojo, timing at the plate or the boost an injured player could soon provide, the Orioles are searching for it. They have less than two weeks to find it.