Marco Gonzales vs. Kenta Maeda, 7:10pm
The M’s return home after something of a rough road trip. The team isn’t really supposed to contend, so there’s no big loss of momentum or playoff-odds-dashing collapse. But as I’ve said quite a bit, the M’s are more fun to watch than their stats or place in the standings would lead you to believe: they’re getting more out of their not-good-enough roster, and they’ve had some fun victories over the course of 2021. But when they stop doing that, or when they mix in feel-good wins like yesterday’s with soul-suckers like the day before, it takes away some of the good will they’ve banked.