A debut is a juxtaposition. Youth face-to-face with age, experience with freshness, anxiety with composure. We attend to players’ previous life experiences more than we might otherwise: whether and where they went to college, where their family lives, hardships they faced, adjustments they made in the minors. We split our minds, thinking of the day’s game not only in context of our team’s season, but also in the context of one player’s career. For that reason, we have a little more grace to offer, more generosity. Usually we just want a good outcome, for our own gratification, but today we’ll take a good effort, for the sake of someone else.
Faced with cynical fanbase, Mariners keep insisting on hope, along the way beating the Padres 6-1
