When the story of the Thorns’ 2018 season is complete, one of the longest chapters is going to be the one about what this team could have been, if not for the hard luck that plagued them most of the year. I’ve written before that how we look back on the season is going to depend on how it ends. But if we feel a certain feeling of precariousness around the team—a suspicion, borne out of one too many dropped results early on, that Portland might have somehow stolen their spot in the standings out of mere happenstance and could fail catastrophically at any moment—we are looking at the season the wrong way.
Roses and Thorns: Home stretch
