Rebuilds are all about the small victories, ideally hewing closer to symbolic than pyrrhic. The Mariners season, relative to the torch being toted by many clubs, has had a promising beginning. Yes, they leave Houston 1-3 after tonight’s 8-5 loss, but the club is mostly healthy (knock on Kyle Lewis’ off-gray wooden bat). Just ahead of first pitch, Brandon Brennan hit the IL with an oblique strain, but compared to the league-wide avalanche of injuries, illness, and outbreak, things seemed quaintly at ease in the Mariners’ final game of the series at Minute Maid Park.
There’s something in the way they lose
