The good news is, after getting a weirdly rare divisional matchup in the previous series, the Mariners get to play another AL opponent over the next four games. The bad news is it’s the Twins, maybe the hottest team in baseball over the last couple of weeks.
Tonight’s game, headlined by Luis Castillo vs. Simeon Woods Richardson, is the only game the Mariners are actually favored to win. (Once again, Logan Gilbert has drawn the toughest opponent of the other team’s ace in Pablo López and has been given the worst odds of the series. We saw how that worked out last time; hopefully Walter will be similarly motivated this time.