There was plenty of disappointment after today’s 6-1 loss to the Washington Nationals. Scott Servais sounded frustrating in his postgame interview, saying “We got outpitched, we got outhit, we got outscored.” In today’s postgame show on ROOT Sports, Angie Mentink was direct in her criticisms of the team: George Kirby is too much in the zone, and the offense needs to do more in the zone. The story was the same on 710 Seattle Sports’ postgame show, also tasked with analyzing why this team has been on such a bad run of late. It’s hard not to hear a slightly parental tone of disappointment in these analyses, so I thought maybe we could couch some of these tough truths in Gentle Parenting terms (with credit to Ms.
Gentle parenting the Mariners through a 6-1 loss to the Nationals
