It’s hard to imagine two more disparate games with such similar scores as the last two wins for the M’s in Toronto, 8-4 in 12 yesterday and 8-3 in 9 today. The former was hard-scrabble, back-and-forth, runs at a premium,…
Category: 2025 Mariner Recaps
Seattle 11, Cincinnati 7 [10] (10-9)
This one was wild. I’ve been less engaged with the M’s on this trip home in my haste to help my mother move out of her home of 26 years: interviewing realtors, trying to match paint lids, shlepping boxes to…
Seattle 9, Texas 2 (7-8)
It’s good to have a laugher. It’s great to have a laugher that got off to such a terrible start. Bryan Woo got into an old-fashioned jam in the first, a combination of mediocre pitching and bad luck with the…
Seattle 5, Texas 3 (6-8)
The last two games have been some of the most satisfying in recent memory for the Mariners, well beyond just the best of this season. And they’ve come with some extra-special personal notes for me as well. I didn’t recap…
Houston 2, Seattle 1 [12] (4-8)
In baseball, the odds of scoring a run with a runner on second and no outs are 62%. The Mariners just failed to do it in 3 straight innings. The odds of that are about 5.5%. Coincidentally, they were 1/19…
Seattle 4, Houston 3 (4-7)
It’s hard to understand how badly you need a win until you get one. This principle probably applies to a lot more than baseball, but I’m here to talk about baseball because baseball is a beautiful sport when it all…
San Francisco 4, Seattle 1 (3-6)
This is supposed to be the Fun Differential era. But this is no fun. I caught a fair bit of heat – and also got a lot of credit (498 likes to date against 80 comments, most of them vitriolically…
San Francisco 10, Seattle 9 [11] (3-5)
Maybe it’s bad mojo that I missed a recap. No less a recap of a truly stellar Mariners win in classic Mariners style, 3-2, on a homer by Dylan Moore, over the defending Cy Young champion of the AL, clinched…
Detroit 4, Seattle 1 (2-4)
I’m not going to sugarcoat it. That was awful and is an ominous sign for our season. As an incorrigible optimist about the Mariners and especially the genuine potential of the Fun Differential era of this incarnation of the ballclub…
Detroit 9, Seattle 6 (2-3)
It has to be hard to be Emerson Hancock. He’s a guy with earnest potential and prodigious baseball talent (certainly compared to 99.999% of humans who will never play even mid-level professional baseball, much less make the Majors). But he’s…