What’s been most frustrating for me in watching these early games is seeing the Mariners so often play the same game, and lose the same ways. Time after time it feels like the club hasn’t been able to come up with a clutch hit or a big inning to back a strong outing from their starter; in the rare moments when they have, the pitching staff hasn’t been able to keep the other team off the board, resulting in a cold start to the season, both literally and figuratively. But tonight the Mariners broke the cycle of spoiling good starts with lackluster offensive efforts; tonight it felt a little more like the team playing as they were designed to do on paper, with strong pitching backed by a few key hits, and a lockdown performance from the bullpen.
Mariners break the cycle, find big hits, win 5-2
