for all or most of AJ's time as manager, they have played as good as expected based on their talent level.
from August 24 through August 25, they played better than one would have expected.
this ******* crap, is about as bad as one can expect, I don't think they can play any worse, and the 6th inning showed they have a lot of bad juju.
they have 5 games to pull out of this death spiral, and there is no reason to think they will