73-77: Seattle Mariners defeat Texas Rangers by doing the better baseball thing

The M's leave Texas with a victory on Sunday, 9-2Well the Mariners won today. They won by scoring more runs than their opponent, the Texas Rangers, but they also won because they were, for a day, the better baseball team. That is a fun sentence to type after all of this, because when Lloyd put out his lineup card this morning he was probably thinking that Stefen Romero would be actually fine out in centerfield, or at least that it would not hurt the chances of his hodgepodge group of professional baseball players. Which, um:

But of course, like any other day Lloyd fields a team composed of gingerbread men and Spiderman action figures, it actually didn't matter. And that, unfortunately, will…