On days like today, when the sunset is all sorts of magenta and orange and glinting off the water, it’s easy to remember how beautiful this world can be. We can see dogs running around outside, carefree, bounding down the yard chasing after that ever-elusive tennis ball. We can see kids basking in the sunshine, finally liberated from school for the summer. We can quite literally smell the flowers.
So maybe it’s appropriate that today’s Mariners game against the Baltimore Orioles managed to give us some hope for the future, a live daydream from T-Mobile Park wrenching us away from the despair of a 32–46 record and focusing instead on the possibilities floating above us.