The Seattle Mariners have put on a movie that their fans have seen before. Everyone knows how it ends, and what's happening now feels an awful lot like how the end usually begins.
The Mariners concluded a nine-game road trip on Wednesday, and to say that the entire thing was a bummer would be like saying that taking a sledgehammer to the knee is mildly unpleasant. They lost seven games on the trip, including each of the last five.
Though the two clubs have 142 wins between them, the Philadelphia Phillies made beating the Mariners look especially easy over the last three days.