This why I'm not really worried. This is the longest losing streak we've had since late June. Since this team has gotten mostly healthy, they've avoided long losing streaks. A couple games here and there, but nothing greater than 4. The Braves on the other hand . . .
I'm generally an optimist too, and I think the message from having been able to avoid long losing streaks is that the team is good ... but ... I am worried, after the Phillies series, about the possibiblity having a really really bad stretch coming up, to where it feels like the wheels are coming off. Maybe we go 4-2 on the west coast and everything is fine, but, just imagine this:
We've already lost 4 of 5
Say we go 1-2 vs Seattle and get swept in LA, or vice versa -- not likely maybe, but certainly not unthinkable. That's 1-5 on the west coast swing, to make it 2-8 over the last 10. Then we come home to the Phillies we just played, and we're reeling -- say they take 2 of 3. Then it's the braves, and we're totally stressed headcases, because now we've lost 12 of our last 15, and they're breathing down our necks. We get swept, because that's how the nightmare goes, they catch us, and we've lost 15 of 18, and have a long 11 game road trip to leave for at just the wrong time.
I'm definitely not saying it's going to happen... I don't expect it to happen and don't think it will happen. But it could happen, and until the first few games out west snap me out of it, I'm scared that it might happen.
Beat King Felix tonight, and I'll tell you about how we're going to win 15 of our next 18 and clinch at home on 9/10!
