Mariners flirt with normal over-.500 baseball, get seduced by old flame Chaos Ball

Photo by Abbie Parr/Getty Images You know Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown and Walt “No Neck” Williams, now meet Tom “Wild Eyes” MurphyThe signs were there early: the first pitch of the game hitting Mark Canha, only for him to be erased from the bases on a topsy-turvy double play by JP Crawford the very next pitch; the cackle from Jake Fraley as he took yet another walk in his first PA since April 6; the Mariners getting on the board thanks to a bottom-of-the-order bat’s first blast in the bigs.

Nothing about this game was ever going to be straight forward.

Nevertheless, I felt a nagging sense of normalcy in the early innings, with runners reaching and occasionally getting into third, only to be…