ARLINGTON, Texas — This is how win streaks turn from five to eight, and from 10 games to historical.
And it’s another example of how the Mariners put together this recent run of success, dating to after the abysmal 3-8 homestand where the season seemed over, well beyond the brawl in Anaheim and the current double-digit win streak.
With a relatively late/early morning arrival into the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex providing inconvenience, J.P. Crawford out of the lineup as a late scratch and a sluggish start from Marco Gonzales and their own failures with bases loaded leading to a four-run deficit after two innings, it would have been easy for the Mariners to slog their way through a nondescript defeat with fatigue as an excuse and the promise to finish strong over the final three games of the series before the All-Star break.
