CINCINNATI --
There is no reason to bury the Marlins' season just yet, but it might be time to start writing the obituary.
It has been a slow and painful death in a season that started slipping away in August like so many late-inning leads. There was a last-gasp effort for revival with a nine-game winning streak in September, but even that seemed doomed from the start.
And just like the season that faded away in the past two months, the 7-5 loss to the Reds on Monday had that same sense of frustration, that same bad taste and that same sour feel to it that so many Marlins' losses have had this year. When it's all over Sunday afternoon in New York, where the season officially ends, the Marlins will be forced to look back on a year that was full of hope and promise, but ended a bit too soon in part because of a bullpen that couldn't hang on long enough.
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