Marlins make doubtful historical past with 0-7 begin to open 2024 season after being swept by Angels

The Miami Marlins at the moment are 0-7. The most recent loss got here within the type of a 10-2 beatdown by the Angels, who’ve now received 4 straight after dropping their first two. The Marlins have been outscored 51-24 this season and have already misplaced just about each means attainable — blown saves, extra-inning losses, trailing from the beginning, dropping leads, low-scoring losses, slugfest losses, blowout losses, you title it. 

What makes this all worse is that the Marlins are coming off the their’ first full-season playoff berth since 2003. They’re now the primary crew in MLB historical past to make the postseason after which begin the following 12 months with a minimum of seven straight losses, per MLB.com. 

Sadly for the Marlins, they’re already working up into a variety the place we have to begin speaking concerning the historic futility to start out a season. Beforehand, the longest winless streak to start out the 12 months in franchise historical past was 4 (1995 and 2001), so they’re on the verge of doubling that. 

The MLB document for the longest dropping streak to start out a season is 21 (1988 Orioles) and the longest within the NL is 14 (1997 Cubs). These Marlins symbolize the twenty seventh case in historical past by which a crew has gone a minimum of 0-7 to start out a season earlier than profitable. The final time we noticed such a streak was 2016, when each the Braves and Twins began 0-9. 

Final season, the Marlins had been 84-78, grabbing the second NL Wild Card. There have been just a few causes to anticipate a backslide anyway, however then the pitching employees was ravaged, additional, by accidents this spring and issues simply have form of snowballed from there. 

The Marlins have not precisely had a schedule that screamed robust heading into the season, both. They began with a four-game collection towards the Pirates at house. The Pirates had been 76-86 final season and most projection methods had them ending final place within the NL Central. They’ve breakthrough potential, for certain, nevertheless it’s not just like the Marlins began in Atlanta. And now Miami has been swept by the Angels, who had been projected to be horrible heading into the season. 

Plus, all seven of those losses got here at house. 

The Marlins now will head on the highway and cope with the Cardinals (3-3 heading into Wednesday’s recreation) and Yankees (5-1).