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Dreams deferred and deflected: Mariners fall to Astros 11-5

[Note: The Lookout Landing staff had the fortune of embarking on a rare group outing, and were thus unable to recap this game. As such, a guest recapper is here to sprinkle your evening with inconsequential dollops of baseball.]

Does the pitcher’s mound in a major league ballpark feel different than the pitcher’s mound at any other level?

Obviously the atmosphere is different - a crowd of thousands, even on the sleepiest of Tuesday nights, versus clusters of fans whose intermittent cheers fight with the screeching of the crickets. But I wonder, when Andrew Moore closes his eyes for a second, if he could be transported back to Corvallis?