The morning after the Seattle Mariners offense wasted perhaps the best outing of Logan Gilbert’s career and a shutdown performance from the bullpen, one play feels indelible.
With the bases loaded and one out, the data says a team should score an average of 1.65 runs. That’s to say nothing of the fact that it felt like a minor miracle that the Mariners’ bottom of the order was the group who’d loaded the bases and that the guy in the box is who you should want there, who should be the Mariners’ best hitter.