The Mariners will likely define their season in game 162 again.
I wanted to write this post at the 42-game mark. The team has said in the past they like about that many games to assess the roster, and ~25% seemed like a fair threshold for a check in. But I wasn’t sure what I wanted to say at the time. The Mariners started 3-7, then they went 19-7, winning nine consecutive series. Then they went 1-5 while getting blown out at home. Was it the their best start in recent history? Or was it their blurst start, a feat possible for any group willing to bang away at typewriters for months at a time?