Streak Watch in MLB: Oakland Athletics at 9 and Counting

Somebody is always rolling and somebody is always spiraling, that is what makes a league a league. Here is the current MLB streak board, longest runs first.

There are five clubs carrying streaks of three games or longer at the moment, which tells you something about how streaky this stretch of the calendar has been.

The win-column crowd

Tampa Bay Rays just keep stacking, five wins in a row, the best active streak going. At some point a run stops being a coincidence and starts being a statement, and they are somewhere past that point.

Texas Rangers carry a 4-game winning run of their own.

Stuck in the barrel

The skid to watch belongs to Oakland Athletics, losers of nine in a row. Runs like this always end eventually; the only question is how much damage gets done before they do.

It is not much prettier for Baltimore Orioles, losers of 3 straight.

Seattle Mariners have lost 3 straight themselves, in case anyone at the cold end needed company.

At a glance

Every active streak of three or more, in one place:

The fine print

The longest run on the board sits at 9 games, and runs that size have a way of bending a whole week's storylines around them, every broadcast, every pregame note, every nervous manager quote.

Streaks end, that is the one thing every single one of them does. They tell you where a team has been, loudly, and nothing at all about where the next game is going.

One to circle: Athletics meet Tampa Bay Rays in their next game, and we will find out quickly whether this stretch travels.