Being a Mariners fan has often brought with it a great many lows and a few precious, dizzying highs, made all the more thrilling by their infrequency. Things have changed over the past couple of years as the good moments have become slightly more frequent, with the Mariners challenging for a playoff spot one year, earning one the next, and at times enjoying the heady rush of first place in the AL West this season: rarified air that would be impossible to explain to a Mariners fan in, say, 2010. Or 2019. Yet somehow the highs coming closer together don’t make the lows feel any less low.
Agony, ecstasy, more agony: Mariners lose to Angels, 8-5, on historic night for J-Rod
