The Chiba Lotte Marines are playing very, very badly right now. Almost unbelievably so, and that's really putting it rather mildly.
They're off to one of the worst starts in recent memory in Japanese baseball. What's more, that isn't even the worst part of the beginning to the Marines' 2017 season.
The worst part is, right now, even this early, there doesn't seem to be any sort of proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Which means it could be a long summer in Chiba.