This game was unfortunate.
Perhaps this is the time to remember “you can’t win them all,” or it’s just “one game of 162,” but that doesn’t fit for the moment. After 85 games of holding at least a share of the best record in baseball, the Tampa Bay Rays find themselves with the second-best record after falling 8-3 to the Seattle Mariners. Coming into the game, the Rays had a .750 record against teams below .500, but that’s why they play the game.
As for how it all went down, there were three distinct acts to this tragedy.