These games have come and gone in this Seattle spring. The Seattle Mariners have drawn close, then slipped just past their quarry like an orca that’s decided it’s had its fill of fish after all. The San Francisco Giants had every intention of providing a surprising sweep, with shoddy contact and spoiled chances at big innings of their own, but the M’s were not able to capitalize at the plate thanks to a frustrating stretch of sequencing and genuinely stifling pitching by Alex Cobb, the Rogers twins, and Camilo Doval.
The script nearly followed the same critical path as Monday’s comeback stunner, with Seattle pressuring each strong arm, wrestling them nearly to a pin before being flung off.