We’ve gotten to the point where, yes, we will highlight every Mariners loss until they win a game. And yes, when they win a game we’ll not that too.
But for now, the ineptitude continues unabated. Granted the schedule has been rocky lately, what with trips through Boston and New York, but they look like they’d lose to any team you could throw at them lately.
Seattle struck out 18 times. They got one hit. If it wasn’t for the rain delays -- and Joe Girardi’s decision to keep sending CC Sabathia out when they ended -- I doubt they would have gotten the one. Some late walks and errors by the Yankees gave them a chance to score that run, but there was never a sustained threat.
Geoff Baker of the Seattle Times posted a list of the worst losing streaks of all time in his blog post last night. It’s worth a gander:
24 -- Cleveland (NL), 1899
23 -- Philadelphia (NL), 1961
23 -- Pittsburgh (NL), 1890
21 -- x-Baltimore (AL), 1988
20 -- Boston (AL), 1906
20 -- Philadelphia (AL), 1916
20 -- Philadelphia (AL), 1943
20 -- Montreal (NL), 1969
19 -- Kansas City (AL), 2005
19 -- Detroit (AL), 1975
19 -- Boston (NL), 1906
19 -- Cincinnati (NL), 1914
18 -- Philadelphia (AL), 1920
18 -- Washington (AL), 1948
18 -- Washington (AL), 1959
18 -- St. Louis (NL), 1897
17 -- Boston (AL), 1926
17 -- New York (NL), 1962
17 -- Atlanta (NL), 1977
17-- SEATTLE (AL), 2011