Losing streaks happen. I get it. Teams struggle all the time, and I bet you could cherry-pick a few weeks where the teams of the late-90’s looked absolutely dreadful. This losing streak in particular, though, has just been especially painful.
The biggest qualm among them is that they were largely “winnable” games, in that they held a lead and couldn’t hold on. On Tuesday, the game was tied at three until the seventh. On Friday, they gave up the tying and go-ahead run in the eighth. On Thursday, they lost in the tenth inning. The thing that ties these together is partially just dumb luck and sequencing not falling in their favor, and part of it is bad bullpen work and late mistakes.