Baseball is a long game.
The season is months and months. Even the games themselves can be long. Teams go on long winning streaks, and even the best teams struggle, and it can be a roller coaster — just ask the Dodgers about that, at the time of this writing.
Or, ask Patrick Mazeika about it, from the first inning of this game on.
Mazeika and starting pitcher Chris Bassitt, really struggled in that first inning, despite the righty leaving the Mariners on zero going into the bottom of the frame.
The duo could not get on the same page at all, from a game calling standpoint and regarding the signs.