Being a fan of a bad baseball team does weird things to your brain. Reader, I confess: I was rooting for the tie. The Mariners kindly obliged, ending the game against the A’s in a 1-1 tie for the fourth straight game this spring, which is surely some kind of record. (Edited to add: it is indeed a Mariners club record.)
The only kind of bummer about that is it probably shouldn’t have been a tie, since the Mariners ran out something close to their A squad for the first four innings and the A’s...did not do that.