The brawl fits into the timeline of the Seattle Mariners

The brawl fits into the timeline of the Seattle Mariners' sudden turnaround from afterthought to wild-card contender, a surge that includes the team's current 14-game win streak -- the longest ever for a team heading into the All-Star break and one short of the franchise record set in 2001.


The Mariners' bench-clearing brawl with the Los Angeles Angels took place on June 26, and calling it epic might be a bit of hyperbole, but it certainly was one of the more contentious baseball fights in recent years, eventually resulting in 12 suspensions, including 10 games for Angels manager Phil Nevin. The Mariners actually lost that day, however, falling to 34-40, seven games out of the final wild-card spot.


They lost the next day as well, as the Baltimore Orioles hammered them 9-2 in Seattle. Things were bleak. The team was struggling, injuries had decimated the lineup, and Seattle was about to lose Jesse Winker, J.P. Crawford and even Julio Rodriguez for one game each due to brawl fallout. A season of promise -- a season in which the Mariners were aiming for their first postseason trip since that record-breaking 2001 season -- was on the verge of falling apart.


Instead, they've gone 17-1 since then and come out of the All-Star break holding the second wild-card position (and 67.7% playoff odds), squeezed between the Tampa Bay Rays and Toronto Blue Jays.


But, no, don't credit the brawl.


When asked if it was indeed a reason for the Mariners' winning streak, rookie phenom Rodriguez offered up one of his million-dollar smiles and said, "It might be. I don't know.""It definitely fired the guys up, but I wouldn't say that's attributed to it," All-Star first baseman Ty France said during festivities at Dodger Stadium this past week. "You never want to see those things happen; it's not baseball. But sometimes they do. I guess you can say it sparked us, but that's not our fuel."


Really, though, the turnaround began before the brawl, when the Mariners had won five in a row. That puts the Mariners on a 22-3 run since June 21, the best 25-game stretch in the majors since Cleveland went on that remarkable 22-game winning streak in 2017.


France said the tipping point was a series sweep at home by the Angels that dropped Seattle's record to 29-39 (at which point their playoff odds were at 6%). "We kind of took a step backward and realized it's getting later in the season and we gotta get going," France said. "We had such high expectations coming into this season."


Indeed, the Mariners, coming off a 90-win season, signed Cy Young winner Robbie Ray and traded for 2021 All-Stars Winker, Adam Frazier and slugger Eugenio Suarez in the offseason. Expectations were the highest they'd been in Seattle since perhaps 2010, when ESPN The Magazine's baseball preview issue put the Mariners on the cover and declared, "OUTS ARE IN -- AND SO ARE THE MARINERS


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