This was a game that looked like it involved the two last-place teams in the league, at least until the Wizards scored two goals in two minutes to dispose of the Galaxy.
The largest Wizards crowd of the season – 26,113 – watched as the Galaxy winless streak reached 12 games, a stretch that has seen L.A. go 0-6-6 while getting outscored 28-16.
How bad is this?
*The winless streak is longer than any Chivas USA endured during its horrific inaugural season.
*New York hasn’t been this bad in almost a decade, back when they were called the MetroStars.
*The Galaxy are within striking distance of tying the all-time MLS winless streak set by Real Salt Lake, something they will do if they fail to win any of the rest of their games.
Here are the all-time MLS winless streak “leaders:”
Team Number When set
Real Salt Lake 18 8/10/2005-5/6/2006
Real Salt Lake 15 9/23/2006-6/17/2007
Columbus Crew 13 6/10/2006-8/16/2006
New York 12 7/14/1999-9/5/1999
Galaxy 12 6/21/2008-?
Chivas USA 11 5/14/2005-7/2/2005
Incidentally, defender Eduardo Dominguez may have made the best move of the night and he wasn’t even on the field. The Argentine flew home to be with his wife who was due to give birth to the couple’s first child.
And David Beckham is clearly not with us.
Watch and weep:
Perhaps this video makes the point even better. The Galaxy have just six MLS games left in the season.
