Chargers hope losing close games doesn't become contagious
by By Mike DiGiovanna, Los Angeles Times
Sep 18, 2017
3 minutes
LOS ANGELES - An inability to win close games can be like a flu bug spreading through the locker room. The Los Angeles Chargers, their latest nausea-inducing last-second defeat coming in Sunday's 19-17 loss to the Miami Dolphins, can only hope to contain it.
When kicker Younghoe Koo pushed a potential game-winning, 44-yard field-goal attempt wide right with five seconds left in StubHub Center, it dropped the Chargers to 1-10 in one-score games since the beginning of 2016 and 4-18 in such games since the start of 2015.
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