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…
Tag: 2025 Mariner Recaps
Seattle 2, Sacramento 1 (2-2)
It’s increasingly funny to me that I opened the year with a post about dismissing past narratives. Because all we’ve really got are past narratives. Which one do you want? One-Run Magic? Julio the Savior? Power Outage at T-Mobile? Let’s…
Sacramento 4, Seattle 2 (1-2)
I don’t want to dwell on this one. This was about as frustrating as a night of baseball can get. Some nights, your team gets blown out (last night). Some nights, your team gets shut out (last night). Some nights,…
Sacramento 7, Seattle 0 (1-1)
You gotta score a run. It’s a simple, painfully obvious principle, but one that I return to frequently while watching this incarnation of the Seattle Mariners. By “this incarnation,” I mean the 2020s team (2021-?) that wins frequently with crafty…
Seattle 4, Sacramento 2 (1-0)
Baseball is a game of narratives. It’s what we love about it, the storytelling, the slowly built drama that rises and falls over 2-3 hours and 162 games, a season so long it essentially doubles the nearest competitor in professional…