You don't risk playoff availability for regular season games just to prove you're macho. When the time comes, they'll play with soreness. Baseball's a funny game. Avoiding pain while playing can screw up your mechanics which could lead to a career ending injury. While it has historically applied mostly with pitchers, it also applies to batters and fielders. It's been a long time, but I remember a story of a star pitcher injuring himself because of a bruised toe in his landing foot which ended his career prematurely.
At this point, does anybody that matters care about that win streak? Speaking of which, I need to get ahold of the M's front office cuz I know where they can get a fantastic deal on some more smoke and mirrors.
Regardless, a 14 game winning steak is impressive and the Mariners deserve kudos for getting back into the wild card race. 6 of those wins were against the Padres and Blue Jays.
LOL, typical PNW passive aggressive behavior. I was at both games this weekend. I was right behind the Astros dugout yesterday and a Mariners fan was screaming that Altuve was wearing a wire during his leadoff AB. That homer shut him up real quick and all the Astros fans in attendance let him hear it. Honestly, most people up here are really nice, the assh*les tend to stand out.
Actually, those were the quality teams in that streak, the rest was Oakland, Texas and the Nationals...
Yep....Sweeping a 4 game series against the 2nd best AL East team and the 2nd best NL West is a quality accomplishment. Winning 8 in a row, even against bad teams, is a quality accomplishment.
