u/PurrculesMulligan

Call it perspective, call it dooming, but we've got to counter this recency bias. Some honorable mentions...

Last game of the 2011 season, largely for it's playoff implications. I don't know if it's the worst game we've had, but it's for sure the worst hour we had, with getting walked off in the 9th (after going 2 outs 2 strikes bases empty) while the Yankees were busy simultaneously blowing a 7 run lead to get walked off by the Rays. The exclamation point to a 7-20 september where we "overcame" a 99.6% probability of making the playoffs. The fact that it happened against Baltimore rubbed salt into the wound a bit more, as they were objectively horrible back then, but decided that every game against us was game 7 of the World Series.

4/21/2012 - Red Sox blow a 9 run lead to the Yankees. I mean it could've been a 14 run lead since they scored 15 unanswered, so I guess it could always be worse? A pretty good harbinger of things to come that season. In fairness I don't think we're likely to top this one anytime soon because it would first require an offense capable of generating a 9 run lead.

7/22/2022 when the Blue Jays hung 4 touchdowns on us. Remarkable for the legendary inside-the-park grand slam courtesy of one of tonight's scapegoats, as well as an 11 run 5th inning in which we got the first 2 guys out! This one was a good microcosm of our decent hitting/no pitching era.

4/11/2025 - We lose 11-1 to a White Sox team that had managed 41 wins the previous season and was coming off an 8 game losing streak. Somehow we managed 5 errors in the process for good measure.

I'd love to hear thoughts. I'm sure there have been plenty of others with absolutely no redeeming value that I was very eager to forget. And for a team that's constantly reinventing the worst case scenario, the "best" may still be to come!