Mariners, Rangers stage early battle for deed to AL West cellar, Mariners win

Darren Yamashita-USA TODAY Sports Another day, another game spent trying to read the tea leaves through the radio waves. Today’s contest wasn’t a particularly difficult one to discern: the Texas Rangers scored 17 runs over seven innings, and the Mariners...did not do that.

The wind was blowing ten miles an hour out to left, which according to the Beaufort Wind Scale is a 3, a “gentle breeze,” but which the Mariners pitchers might have described as a 9, a “strong gale” capable of doing slight damage to buildings and blowing shingles off roofs. Definitely the shingle hanging outside of Sheff’s kitchen got blown around some today, as Justus started off the game poorly, leaving an 0-2 pitch in…