Less than four weeks to go in the season and we’re running out of milestones and events to discuss.

Felix Hernandez and Cy Young bid? Check.

Mariners trying to avoid 100 losses? Check.

M’s trying to avoid worst ever offensive output in a season? Check.

But here we are, more than five months into a season of futility, and yet another dubious milestone has popped into the equation. Yes, while the team has won games at a slightly improved pace the past month to maybe put the 100-loss thing in doubt (we’ll know a lot more about that the next week now that patsies like the Indians are off the radar) there is still a new offensive low the M’s are threatening.

Seattle has gone 10 straight games without scoring more than three runs. That’s just two off the franchise record set back in 1988.

Good thing they’re on the road to try to snap this thing today because at home, where home run balls turn into fly ball outs at Safeco Field, the M’s have gone 15 straight without scoring more than three. How bad is that? Well, not since the 1954 Baltimore Orioles has a team been that bad at scoring on its home turf.

No, those O’s did not win the World Series. Neither will these M’s.

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