If you didn’t watch tonight’s slobber-knocking at the hands of the Houston Astros, you didn’t miss much except for Yusei Kikuchi missing a whole lot of spots. The lone Seattle Mariners All-Star has been tattooed into orbit since the break, giving up 24 runs in 34 innings following the Midseason Classic. Tonight he yielded seven of those on three homers in just 2.2 innings, looking hapless and a far cry from the near-ace he’d shown at times throughout his career. Dispiriting as a single loss is on the fringes of a playoff race, particularly one of the 12-3 blowout variety like tonights walloping, the regression of Kikuchi stings worst of all.
Mariners attempt to build spaceship to compete w/Astros, forget fuel, metal, Newtonian physics
