By the 2004 season the Diamondbacks had dropped to a dismal 51 – 111 record, the worst in Major League Baseball and one of the 10 worst records in the modern era, despite Johnson pitching a perfect game on May 18 of that season.

However, the team finished the 2009 season with 64 wins and 98 losses, making it the worst record in the 2009 American League season.

The Orioles then went 2 – 16 to begin the season, one of the worst openings in MLB history.

For much of the first half of the season, they had the worst record in the league.

Mike Brown, the team's de facto general manager, was rated as among the worst team owners in American professional sports Compounding matters were off-field problems of several players, notably receiver Chris Henry, who was suspended several times during his short professional career and was actually released by the Bengals at one point, but was then re-signed for the season.

" The team ended the season in 12th place, 84 games out of first place, with an all-time worst record of 20 wins and 134 losses.

A highlight of the season was a 22 – 0 victory over the New York Yankees on August 31, one of the worst defeats suffered by the Yankees in team history.

The result of all the moves was a 67 – 95 record in 2005, which tied for the worst record in franchise history, as the young players — many of whom had never been everyday players in the majors prior to that season — struggled.

Although he won at Darlington, he failed to finish 15 races, and completed the season 12th in points, the worst of his career.

Although the Cowboys finished the 1989 season with a 1 – 15 record, their worst in almost 30 years, " The Trade " later allowed Dallas to draft a number of impact players to rebuild the team.

As it turned out, 2006 would prove to be the worst season for Essendon under Sheedy, and its worst in over 70 years, with a multitude of injuries and poor form affecting the team, none more so than the serious hamstring injury suffered by newly appointed captain Lloyd.

The Marlins finished the 1999 season with the worst record in baseball at 64 – 98, and traded World Series MVP Liván Hernández to the San Francisco Giants.

After posting the worst record in baseball for the 1999 season, the Marlins had the first overall pick in the 2000 first-year player draft and selected first baseman Adrian Gonzalez, a 16-year-old native of Bonita, California.

It was the worst record in baseball and manager Preston Gomez was fired late in the season and replaced by Bill Virdon.

The 2011 season was the worst in franchise history, as the Astros finished 56-106.

Belying his future career, baseball was Robinson's " worst sport " at UCLA ; he hit. 097 in his only season, although in his first game he went 4-for-4 and twice stole home.

The Royals concluded the season with a 75-86 finish and second-to-last place standing in the AL West ( worst franchise record since ).

The team continued a youth movement in 2005, but finished with a 56 – 106 record (. 346 ), a full 43 games out of first place, marking the third time in four seasons that the team reestablished the mark for worst record in franchise history The season also saw the Royals lose a franchise record 19 games in a row.

Despite the success in domestic cups, Liverpool was 17th in the table over the second half of the season to finish the season eighth, their worst showing in the league since 1994, failing to qualify for Europe's Champions League for a third straight season.

David Suchet highlights his performance as Japp to be " possibly the worst performance of career.

Mare was supposed to bring a stronger leg to the team, but has disappointed with the fourth worst average field goal percentage of his 15-year career.

In fact, it was one of the worst experiences of his long career.

Although the team enjoyed ultimate success, 1955 was the worst year of Robinson's individual career.

During the 1960s, Clemente batted over. 300 in every year except 1968, when, thanks to yet another freak off-season injury ( à la 1965 ), he got off to the worst start of his major league career, hitting just. 245 by the All-Star break, and doing well just to reach. 291 by season's end.

Later, he fell into one of the worst slumps of his career, only snapping out of it during the last week of the season.

It will gain a reputation as the worst moment of his career.

Ryan's last start was his career worst ; he allowed a single, four walks, and a grand slam in the top of the first without recording an out.

The cars available include the Lotus 49, the Ferrari 312, the Eagle-Weslake T1G, the Brabham BT24 and the H 16 powered BRM P115 ( which though striking was not a great success ; indeed, Jackie Stewart called it the worst car he drove in his entire career ).

In the early 1990s, Candy's career went into decline after he appeared in a string of critical and commercial failures, including Nothing But Trouble ( for which he was nominated for a Razzie as " worst supporting actress ," playing a woman ), Delirious, and Once Upon A Crime, although he did appear in major successes such as Rookie of the Year ( uncredited ), The Rescuers Down Under, Home Alone and Cool Runnings.

However, in game five, Kramnik made what has been described as the worst blunder of his career ( a blunder that pales in comparison to his loss against Deep Fritz 10 in 2006 ), losing a knight in a position which was probably drawn.

As his career just started going, however, Howe sustained the worst injury of his career, fracturing his skull after an attempt to check Toronto Maple Leafs captain Ted Kennedy into the boards went awry during the 1950 playoffs.

" In another interview, he described it as: " the worst thing I've ever experienced in my military career.

Following her tournament victory in Berlin, Graf suffered one of the worst defeats of her career in a French Open semifinal where she won only two games against Arantxa Sánchez Vicario and lost her first 6 – 0 set since 1984.

After several months injury lay off, Graf returned to play in the German Open in Berlin in front of a home crowd and had the worst defeat of her career in the quarter final, when Amanda Coetzer beat her in just 56 minutes 6 – 0, 6 – 1.

She suffered the worst defeat of her career in the quarterfinals, losing to World No. 4 Jelena Janković 6 – 0, 6 – 1.

The album, however, suffered the worst sales of Zevon's career, in part because his label, superagent Irving Azoff's short-lived Giant Records, was in the process of going out of business.

In the first game of the next round against the Chris Paul-led Hornets, San Antonio was badly defeated 101 – 82 as Duncan played one of the worst playoff games in his career, recording only 5 points and 3 rebounds.

He stole just six bases, while being thrown out seven times, easily the worst ratio of his career.

Larsson described the pain of the defeat as being the worst moment of his career, including his leg break.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

Although New Orleans was not to learn of it for a spell, she also was a sadist, a nymphomaniac and unobtrusively mad -- the perpetrator of some of the worst crimes against humanity ever committed on American soil.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

Like Napoleon, he was the worst of losers.

He gave us a simile to explain his admission that even at the worst period of his second illness it never occurred to him there was any renewed question about his running: as in the Battle of the Bulge, he had no fears about the outcome until he read the American newspapers.

That goddamn redheader was the worst.

And in the dark days after the Great Flood of 1927 -- the worst natural disaster in the state's history -- the little plane was its sole replacement in carrying the United States mails.

In the second place, though, even if Birmingham is worse, no doubt Johannesburg, South Africa, beats it by several miles, and Buchenwald was one of the worst things that ever happened in the entire history of the world.

The worst was yet to come.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Board Chairman Howard Simpson of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., testified the B & O was in its worst financial condition since the depression years and badly needed the economic lift it would get from consolidation with the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad.

She might peel him, once the worst of the agony was over.

Even rock-steady Anne -- Hell, Anne was the worst!!

There have been cases of humans being contaminated with americium, the worst case being that of Harold McCluskey, who at the age of 64 was exposed to 500 times the occupational standard for americium-241 as a result of an explosion in his lab.

Looking back on this period ( in 1926 ) Milne observed that when he told his agent that he was going to write a detective story, he was told that what the country wanted from a " Punch humorist " was a humorous story ; when two years later he said he was writing nursery rhymes, his agent and publisher were convinced he should write another detective story ; and after another two years he was being told that writing a detective story would be in the worst of taste given the demand for children's books.

Alexei's relations with his father suffered from the hatred between his father and his mother, as it was very difficult for him to feel affection for his mother's worst persecutor.

The worst that could be brought against him was that he had wished his father's death.

Peter was openly in love with Inês, recognized all the children she bore, and, worst of all, favoured the Castilians that surrounded her.

The early years of the colony had been years of struggle and hardship, but the worst was over, and there were no further famines in New South Wales.

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