Another day, another Marlins loss and back under .500 once again. The Marlins playoff chances keep getting smaller as the season comes to an end. This team has been a joke lately, no other way of putting it.

Eury has now had 3 consecutive terrible starts, and this one might top the other 2. He gave up 10 hits and 7 runs, 5 of which were earned runs. It’s his third start in a row where he pitched less than 5 innings. Just absolutely unacceptable to be pitching like that at this point of the season when you are fighting for a wild card spot. Where is the Eury that was so good in the last couple months? He suddenly sucks and cannot buy an out. It also doesn’t help that the defense is absolutely terrible, which brings me to my next point.

The Marlins’ defense has been atrocious lately, and that’s me being kind. It’s just error after error, mistake after mistake, bad throw after bad throw. The whole defense is just awful; I literally cannot find any bright spots. Sanoja who was a golden glover last year seemingly decided to forget how to make a throw. Otto Lopez might have not necessarily made a mistake today, but his throws have also been pretty bad this year. The first basemen are just not good enough either and constantly make mistakes. None of the outfielders have a decent arm at all, and some can’t even catch. The Marlins made 2 errors today, but it was really 3 in my opinion. It doesn’t really matter though, they can’t be making errors, especially at this point in the season and especially when your pitcher is struggling and he needs all the help he can get. Not a good recipe for winning baseball, the defense just needs to get better if they want any chance at the playoffs this year.

And well let’s not mention the offense which has been so inconsistent. They seem to decide to score a lot of runs one game and then not score enough in the next 5 games. Yes, they scored 4 runs today but that’s just not enough to be winning games, especially against a Mets team that has been one of the best teams since the trade deadline. And it all comes down to not being able to get any hits with RISP. other than the second inning where they scored all 4 runs, the Marlins just were not able to take advantage of anything, just missed opportunity after missed opportunity like every single game. And then they want us to believe that this team is ready to compete in the playoffs, they just aren’t ready.

Not to mention the base running mistakes they have been making all season long. I know they were down by 5 runs, but you can’t get picked off for the last out of the game, it’s just an absolute embarrassment, this team is just a joke. And to think that in June we really thought this team would go to the playoffs and compete. We should have known then that weather they were doing then wasn’t sustainable.

And it really goes back a lot to the defense. When the Marlins were winning a lot in June, part of it was because of how good the defense was playing, but that didn’t last long the defense is back at being terrible. The Marlins are just bad at 3 really important things, and it costs them so many games, defense, baserunning and hitting with RISP. And until they don’t improve that, we cannot take this team seriously.

It’s just embarrassing to be losing to the Mets 9-4, like how do you even allow so many runs against them. And just no offense other than the second inning, just embarrassing.

I just don’t think the Marlins will be making the playoffs, it’s too late, they are probably 5 games back now with 17 to play and a really tough schedule ahead, so I just don’t see it happening this year. What a terrible game to watch on Labor Day, just plain awful from all aspects of the game. The only bright spot was the Pauley 3-run home run that game the Marlins the lead for a minute. This team needs to learn how to play again, they need to remember the fundamentals, but until then, they are not going to be competing seriously.

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