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Mariners 3, Los Angeles (AL) 2 (33-31) What a difference a week makes! Or even a day: 24 hours ago, I was mentally drafting a post on that phase of the season (inevitable in Mariner fandom) where even the most diehard fan feels a need to d...

Making the win yesterday even more improbable, it was the Mariners’ 3rd win in 18 games when they didn’t hit a homer. Maybe because Cal Raleigh got a true off-day. The M’s are 30-16 (.652) when they leave the yard at least once. #TridentsUp

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Mariners 5, Twins 4 [11] (31-26) Everyone has their own favorite flavor of game. Some like the laughers. Some love the pitching duels (those are way up there for me, to be clear, 1-0 being perhaps my favorite score when it doesn't co...

The most satisfying game of the year? Almost certainly. Thank you JP Crawford! #TridentsUp

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Houston 2, Seattle 1 (29-22) This one stings. The Mariners' streak of 7 straight road series wins ended yesterday in brutal fashion, during a Bryan Woo start in which the M's surrendered no earned runs and no runs at all after th...

This game was a tragedy. It's easy to focus on Woo's 3-base, ultimately 2-run error. But the bottom line is this: the
@mariners.com are 29-13 when they score at least two (2) runs. Not 3, not 4, not 5. TWO RUNS. That's a .690 clip or 112 wins. #TridentsUp

Seattle 4, San Diego 1 (25-19) So, uh, it's been a minute. I assure you I've still been watching and listening and following almost as much as normal. And thinking and rising and falling with the team as usual. But it's been amidst...

Consecutive Games in First Place: 16

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Seattle 5, Sacramento 3 (21-14) I really wanted to write about each piece of the Texas series, especially the two epic wins that brought the Mariners to 20-12 and made us feel invincible, riding a 6-game winning streak, 8-series win...

Dan Wilson will get more effective at managing the staff and the bullpen, but the hitters aren’t going to forget how to stay within themselves and deliver what the moment needs. It’s weird to see in blue, silver, and teal, but oh so welcome.

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Seattle 9, Los Angeles (AL) 3 (18-12) Let's first note that I'm writing this on May 2nd about a game that ended before night fully fell on April 30. I will pull strongly from feelings on both days. But let's start by focusing on the setti...

The @mariners.com are off to their hottest start since 2003, a year they finished with 93 wins.

#TridentsUp

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Seattle 5, Los Angeles (AL) 3 (17-12) It doesn't feel quite like 2001 yet, but I can start to see a passing resemblance. I think one of the coolest things to witness as a sports fan is someone being so deep in the zone that they even surp...

"Look, it’s early. This is usually a sentence written about the Mariners to justify another slow start. We are about to end April in first place, something that essentially doesn’t compute for the Seattle fan’s brain."

#TridentsUp

Seattle 14, Miami 0 (15-12) Ahem. Look, I'm not necessarily one to, er, tweet my own horn, but I have to call attention to two tweets (Xes?) I made regarding the Mariners over the off-season that seem to be manifesting as at lea...

Who could have possibly predicted that the Mariner offense would be good, actually?

Well, um, I did. On Twitter. This offseason.

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Seattle 8, Boston 5 (13-11) Now that, by contrast, was fun! Your Seattle Mariners have won 3 of their last 4 games by scoring exactly 8 runs. Eight runs! This is an incredible, well, run, and demonstrates that with a few hitters...

JP Crawford has 4 multi-hit games in his last 6 and just hit his first HR in game 24, just like he did in his 19-HR 2023 campaign.

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Boston 8, Seattle 3 (12-11) Well that was no fun. Is this how Blue Jay fans felt over the weekend? Yuck. This was a close and competitive game. And then it wasn't. Polanco hit a big fly to open things up after Leadoff Julio (som...

Maybe Julio's problem (to the extent he has one) is just that he's leading off?

My campaign is for this lineup:
1 Moore 4
2 Polanco 0
3 Julio 8
4 Cal 2
5 Randy 7
6 Raley 9
7 Williamson 5
8 Tellez 3
9 JP 6

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Seattle 8, Toronto 3 (12-10) 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...

In a series of utter improbabilities, Rowdy Tellez going deep thrice probably takes the cake. But Cal, Randy, and Logan are all at or near the top of the league in key categories. More importantly, the M's are nearly atop the AL West!

#TridentsUp

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 bo...

M's are 6-1 in their last 7:
JP's hitting .364 with an OBP of .481 and an OPS of .936.
Cal's hitting .233 with an OBP of .303, an OPS of 1.170 and 6 HR.
Randy's hitting .318 with an OBP of .531, an OPS of 1.259, 5 SB, and 7 bases loaded RBI.

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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 w...

Julio has already increased his number of career triples by 40% this year. You can't tell me he isn't taking a different - and better - approach at the plate. #TridentsUp

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 ...

The two best games of the year have come back-to-back. Is this a portend of good things to come? Or just something we should savor for its own sake?

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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 ...

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%.

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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 spo...

5 Requests of Dan Wilson after today's stellar win:
1. Stop Batting Julio Leadoff.
2. Start Batting Dylan Moore Leadoff.
3. Bench/DFA Rowdy Tellez.
4. Keep Stealing!
5. Free Dom Canzone!

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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 negat...

Without veteran leadership, it's looking like a suddenly long season for the Mariners. Can we sign JD Martinez, please?
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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, cl...

The Mariners are 3-3 when scoring fewer than 5 runs and 0-2 when scoring more than 5.

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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 ...

Hitting is bad. Lefties are bad. Vibes are bad. Help!
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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 baseb...

Get well soon, George Kirby!
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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 Sav...

Fun fact: Since the start of 2021, the Mariners have a .573 winning percentage in T-Mobile and have outscored their opponents by 95 runs. #TridentsUp

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). ...

Not only was it hard to write a recap for Game 3, it was hard to remember why I like baseball during the game itself. #TridentsUp

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 ...

Game 2 Recap. #TridentsUp

Seattle 4, Sacramento 2 (1-0) Randy Arozarena watches if fly. Photo credit: The Seattle Times 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 hou...

Everybody likes content. And I don't have the energy or desire to live-tweet Mariner games. But I can write and reflect. So here is my first recap of 2025. Not promising to do these every game, but if y'all like 'em, I'll see what I can do! #TridentsUp

It is a staggering exercise in cognitive dissonance that this administration is codifying structural racism everywhere while expressing outrage that anyone thinks structural racism exists. A level of audacity rarely found outside of Putin murders and performance art.

Every Trump voter online:

We had a rough afternoon!

Came back about half an hour ago. No guarantees for how long.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but NIH ASSIST is working again!