Director’s Commentary: [ON] OFF
Good baseball doesn’t have to be pretty. Baseball can be an utter disaster and still be good — just a big sloppy mud puddle of a game where nothing goes right can be fun. That was not this game for the first 8.2 innings.
So this was the paragraph we decided to lead with. We actually started writing this in the seventh inning because Cleveland’s offense was virtually sleepwalking and it didn’t look like the Mariners were interested in adding much either. At that point we might as well get a head start on writing it up, right?