Sometimes you need an easy win. There are relatively few easy wins in baseball, much like there are in life, but I’d be lying if I didn’t look at today’s game and think this would be the one to get the Mariners off the schneid of four straight losses. And lo and behold, it was, as the Mariners trounced the Angels, 11-2.
Consider: on the one side, Mariners ace Luis Castillo, whose every performance is a reminder that no matter what the Mariners gave up for him, it was still somehow not enough, because nothing could ever be enough for this kind of pitcher, this kind of ace.