After a successful trip to Houston and a less-successful trip to Minnesota, the Mariners return home but the quality of opponent doesn’t get any easier, which is a wild thing to say about the 2024 Oakland Athletics but here we are. (The Mariners will also have to contend with the equally-hot Royals over this homestand.) If you’ve been missing what the squad from the Bay Area has been up to, Jake Mailhot broke it down in today’s series preview: the A’s have been doing what the Mariners so far haven’t been able to do, working long counts and swinging for the fences, which has yielded a lot of strikeouts but also a surprising amount of power, as well as enough walks to make those long bombs hurt.
Mariners Game #39 Preview: 5/10/24, OAK at SEA
