Oliver Marmol wanted a bagel on Saturday morning. This is New York, so it should have been easy to get one. But this is also 2023, and Marmol manages the St. Louis Cardinals. Nothing comes easily.

“It didn’t work out,” Marmol said. “The line was outrageous. The door guy at the hotel said to just skip the line and walk in. I thought about it, maybe that’s a thing. I saw the line and I didn’t think that was the play.”

The way things are going, Marmol said, he might have provoked another customer and ended up in a fight. He didn’t get a black eye, but he didn’t get a bagel, either. Just another slice of satisfaction missing from a season gone sideways.

Saturday afternoon was better for Marmol, whose Cardinals snapped a six-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the Mets at Citi Field. But it was only the third win for the Cardinals in June, and their 28-43 record was the worst for the franchise through 71 games since 1978. The Cardinals (29-43) beat the Mets again on Sunday, 8-7, when Nolan Arenado hit his second home run of the game in the top of the ninth inning to break a 7-7 tie.

Even so, they have the third-worst record in the National League, percentage points better than the Washington Nationals and the Colorado Rockies — a dizzying fall for a Tiffany brand. The Cardinals — second to the Yankees in overall championships, with 11 — have endured just one losing season this century, in 2007, and have reached the playoffs in each of the past four years.

“You see where we’re at and we’re like, ‘Whoa,’ you know?” said Arenado, the star third baseman. “We understand the magnitude of what’s going on because no Cardinal team has lost this bad in, like, 70 years. All those things we hear about, we know them and we’re trying to find a way out of it. But it’s tough right now, for sure. The more we think about the past and all that, I think it’s hurting us.”