Mariners drop game two of the doubleheader, honestly, whatever, can we go home yet

when u do the runs and some hits: Danny Espinosa (.097 WPA)

airplane on the brain: Erasmo Ramirez (-.275 WPA)

In the morning the bats were making contact and the gloves were not. Some of the balls dribbled up the middle. Others went extremely far. The Mariners very quickly had 7 runs and the Royals had none, but then they had a few and the Mariners had to get one more in order to walk away from the event unscathed. It was their 57th win of the season, and it took 183 minutes to complete.

The last time the Mariners played a doubleheader—three years ago— I oddly enough wrote the recap and Erasmo pitched and they also split the series and man: that season fuckin’ ruled. But between then and now…