You’ve seen this one before. The Mariners played the Astros really hard, but couldn’t quite capitalize and ultimately lost on a late-inning homer. The way it played out this time, the game was tied at two headed into the eighth inning. Seattle loaded the bases with nobody out, but couldn’t score. Immediately afterwards, Martín Maldonado, who is currently rocking a 52 wRC+, hit a home run off the Mariners best pitcher.
I will say, however, that the first seven innings were pretty cool. OK, not the first inning, where the Mariners went down on ten pitches, including two strikeouts, and then Bryan Woo was trying to be a little too fine and ended up letting two runs score.