In baseball, as in all things, it doesn’t have to be pretty—it just has to work. In a 162-game season, every team will win a few games in the stupidest ways imaginable and also lose in what are somehow even stupider ways. Once in a while, a team will scramble together a whole run of those wins and you end up with the 2021 Mariners and their Chaos Ball. The Mariners teams since then have been too legitimately good to warrant the moniker as a nickname for their style of play. But it doesn’t mean they can’t occasionally drink from the Cup of Chaos.
Mariners beat Houston 4-2, the ugly way, which is more fun
