Mariners pitching does 95% of the work on the group project, Mariners defeat Astros 1-0

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty ImagesThe Mariners secured an improbable series victory today by shutting out the Astros in back-to-back games, which is a good recipe for winning when your offense can only scrape together one run. In order to complete that recipe, though, you have to have truly superior pitching, and the Mariners got that today from Logan Gilbert, who turned in his best pitching performance since his home start against the Yankees, and maybe—from a pitch arsenal perspective—his best start of his young career.

Gilbert’s first two innings were mirror images of one another; in the first, he worked around a Michael Brantley single by getting Correa to pop out and striking out…