Having a contact manager on the mound is a bit like making an alliance with Gal Dukat. Sometimes the batted ball luck will be your friend, and sometimes it’ll be your enemy. For the Mariners, behind Logan Evans’s second MLB start, it was mostly an enemy today.
He started out well enough, getting a silly hack from Corey Seager in the first inning on a sweeper with more cut than a bat’leth. And while he gave up a dumb hit to Adolis García in the second, García mistimed Evans’s move like he’d been hit with a Paxan stun beam and got himself picked off.