If you have ever cooked with small children, you know the tension between wanting to let them help so they can learn and develop important Life Skills, while at the same time trying to keep them from crumbling eggshells into the batter or committing some other disastrous error that screws up the entire project. It’s a tension I imagine the Mariners starters must feel as they carefully, gingerly remove their three-run lead from the oven, only to have the bullpen immediately knock the entire contents of the spice rack all over it. Cooking with kids requires forethought and pre-planning.
Marco Gonzales and Chris Bassitt have pitch count contest; Marco wins, as do Mariners
