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Internal surveys found employee morale had plummeted from a high during the Obama administration to a nadir over the previous three years.

A few weeks after that, the nadir got deeper, when Ohtani was lost for the season to elbow and oblique injuries.

Howard’s finale was the nadir, the 2-1 loss at Trinidad and Tobago that ended the Americans’ streak of seven straight World Cup appearances.

But since that 6-10 nadir, it’s been ARMageddon from the Mariners’ hurlers, who have helped the team win its past four series.

Early last year a suspected Chinese spy balloon was floating in the same airspace above the frozen lakes of Alaska, triggering a full-blown international crisis and a nadir in US-China relations.