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I want to return you connected a travel backmost to July 9 successful Major League Baseball.
The Miami Marlins are 10 games supra .500 and are unequivocally nan hottest squad successful baseball.
Their pitching looks dominant, they are getting timely hits pinch awesome baserunning, and their type of location cooking astatine loanDepot Park is mounting each sorts of squad records.
It seems for illustration thing tin slow down this freight train from South Florida.
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Miami Marlins starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara (22) acknowledges nan fans arsenic they observe his 1,002 profession strikeouts during nan crippled against nan Texas Rangers astatine loanDepot Park. Jun 23, 2026; Miami, Florida, USA; (Jim Rassol)
Since then, though, nan Marlins person mislaid 10 consecutive games and are falling further and further retired of nan playoff title arsenic nan almanac shifts to August.
Who connected Earth could person seen this coming?
Well, me, for one.
I tried to pass folks, some astatine nan beginning of nan season erstwhile nan Fightin' Fish were 1 of nan champion teams to commencement nan year, and correct aft their historical June wherever they seemingly put nan remainder of nan convention connected notice.
What was erstwhile a spot of nan team, its bullpen, is now blowing games successful stupendous fashion, and that timely hitting and high-powered discourtesy seems to person tally barren astatine a clip erstwhile astir existent contenders commencement playing their champion baseball.
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And I, on pinch galore different hardened Marlins fans, saw this coming a mile away.
It's thing caller successful Little Havanna, arsenic anyone who has been a instrumentality from nan opening tin attest to.
We've had to strengthen occurrence sales, epic collapses, freak injuries to MVP-candidates, and moreover nan decease of a bright, young franchise cornerstone.
Nothing tin genuinely faze a Marlins instrumentality astatine this point, truthful erstwhile folks extracurricular of nan confines of Dade County started singing nan praises of nan hometown team, existent supporters could only rotation their eyes and hold for nan different footwear to drop.
And driblet it did!
If you want to cognize nan precise infinitesimal nan cosmopolitan karma flipped retired of favour for Miami, it's astir apt erstwhile nan aforementioned McCullough pulled prima picther Eury Perez successful nan mediate of a cleanable crippled bid.
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA - JULY 05: Eury Perez #39 of nan Miami Marlins reacts aft an retired successful nan bottommost of nan sixth inning against nan Athletics astatine Sutter Health Park connected July 05, 2026 successful Sacramento, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images) (Getty Images)
Perez had nan shot taken from him aft 7 innings and only 92 pitches, which incensed fans some successful Miami and beyond.
Sure, nan Marlins would extremity up winning nan crippled and their losing streak didn't commencement for different 4 days, but this is erstwhile nan shot gods decided nan Marlins would person to salary for their transgressions.
The bully news? The Marlins are still only 3 games backmost of a Wild Card spot, and pinch nan waste and acquisition deadline looming, there's still plentifulness of clip to correct nan vessel and make immoderate moves to morph backmost into a contender.
But, arsenic immoderate cynical Marlins instrumentality will show you, it would beryllium a pointless endeavor; a prolonging of nan inevitable.
Rooting for this squad is simply a Sisyphean effort.
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Miami Marlins starting pitcher Sandy Alcantara walks to nan dugout earlier a shot crippled against nan Cincinnati Reds successful Miami connected April 7, 2026. (Lynne Sladky/AP)
You tin get excited astir basking starts and record-setting Junes each you want, but nan extremity consequence is ever nan same.
Just rip nan Band-Aid disconnected and commencement getting excited astir shot season, because I'm personally predicting different October pinch nan lights disconnected astatine loanDepot Park.
Austin Perry is simply a writer for OutKick.
