Baseball can be a cruel game, and it can be cruel because it does not care about the past, and it can be cruel because it always seems to have a way of evening out in the end.
That was the lesson from the Mariners’ 2-1 loss Thursday to the Twins, a defeat that snapped a five-game winning streak and dropped the Mariners back below .500. They still haven’t been above .500 this season.
Robinson Cano, a man who had made only one error in 49 games this season, suddenly made two on one play. And Mike Zunino, who has worked so hard to hit the ball hard up the middle and who won the game the night before by doing just that, did exactly what he wanted to do — and still hit into a double play.