1st inning:
As the one tasked with penning (no pun intended) the introduction to this missive, I find myself at a loss as to where to begin. We have just come off of a devastating loss in the early-afternoon game.
“Losses aren’t so bad when you’re actually at the ballpark,” we told each other in the 9th inning of the first game, with victory still in reach. Most of the time, that’s true. When the Mariners strand what feels like an entire roster’s worth of runners, and Diego Castillo gets within one out of escaping the tenth inning before Mike Trout hits a dinger to make it a 4-2 game… well, I guess sometimes losses do feel bad when you witness them in person.