Inspirational! This baseball team used just seven pitchers to lose to the Orioles 5-3

Tonight’s game, the Seattle Mariners elected a bullpen game in lieu of a traditional starter. It was a choice made borne of circumstance but not of necessity, yet most of the moves to the pen went off without a hitch. Their respective segments of the game have been catalogued below.

Isabelle Minasian

Erik Swanson got the start, and could scarcely have been asked to do more. Swanson worked two scoreless, aided by a home plate that umpire Alfonso Marquez chose to build a gorgeous, expansive side deck on about four inches wide of the traditional zone.