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The Miami Marlins have lost 10 consecutive games after standing 10 games above .500 and leading the majors in form on July 9, cutting their advantage over the Wild Card line to three games as the trade deadline closes in.
The collapse has been swift enough to erase a summer built on a record-setting June and home victories at loanDepot Park that had set team records.
Bullpen and offense give back what June built At their July peak, the Marlins carried a bullpen that observers credited as the team's core strength and an offense the author described as putting the rest of the league on notice.
The relief corps is now surrendering leads that would once have been locked down, according to the piece, and the offense that drove a historically productive June has gone quiet. Both failures arrived at the same time.
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