Maybe, like me, you were expecting more fireworks yesterday in the series opener in Seattle. After all, the Astros have a pretty historically great offense this year, while the Mariners have been extremely lackluster at basically every part of run prevention. Those three runs in the first seemed to be teasing something more, but then things settled down the rest of the night.
Things seemed to be going the same way today. Andrew Moore, on his third franchise of the year and seeing his first Major League action since 2017 (with his second most-recent start being the Astros’ 2017 playoff clincher, interestingly enough), sent the ‘Stros down in order in the first two innings.