Eight days ago, the Mariners left T-Mobile Park victorious — an occurrence that hadn’t happened much in the weeks prior. The hope was that it might kick-start a trend of better play on a road trip against divisional foes.
What transpired was quite the opposite, Seattle slogged through six games in seven days, looking even worse than it had before, finding a myriad of embarrassing and frustrating ways to lose every game on the road trip, sinking to a new low point for the season.
But the losing finally stopped in the last location the Mariners had won.