By Ryan Divish
Seattle Times staff reporter
Even an unexpected accomplishment can no longer prevent what has now become the expected outcome for the Mariners – defeat.
But for a fleeting moment – approximately the time it took for the Astros to leave the field after the bottom of the sixth and the Mariners to take the field in top of the seventh – there was hope of victory, something that has happened just twice in nine games on this homestand and three times in their last 19 games.
And then it was gone, replaced by the empty feeling of yet another loss suffered in a basically empty T-Mobile Park.