Confidence in a bullpen is only as good as their last blown lead. After a pair of one-run wins to take a series from the Minnesota Twins, the Seattle Mariners ceded another winnable game late last night. It was another disappointment in a week and a half of frustrating frailty that the Mariners have made pleasantly uncommon in recent years. Some of the blame lies with the personnel, and simple variations in fortune, but the M’s are also taxing the more volatile members of their pen at a rate well beyond past years, and the cracks have shown.
The Mariners bullpen is showing its underbelly
