If you are reading from Lookout Landing, please know that this article seems to be neither bitter nor cruel. I simply offer my perspective after watching the A’s lose 3 out of 4 to a Mariners team that is now just 1 and 1/2 games back in the wild-card. Good on them, and bad on the A’s for frittering away opportunities.
But one thing baseball has taught us over the years is that good 1-run fortune is generally not sustainable and catches up to you over the course of a long season. Seattle has built its 54-46 record mostly on the strength of insane success in one-run games (23-8) and in extra-inning affairs (10-1).