It’s pretty obvious that scoring more runs in baseball = more wins, but because of how the Mariners are set up—strong and stingy pitching backed by offense that’s, more often than not, just stingy—their numbers are a little more outsized than most: the Mariners are 48-4, or a .923 winning percentage, when they score at least five runs in a game. Tonight they came two runs short of that magic number despite a herculean effort against Yu Darvish and the Padres: they worked four walks, only struck out nine times (single digits, wooo!), and seven of the nine starters had at least one hit en route to a 10-hit night (double digits, wooo!
Mariners can’t hit magic number, drop game to Padres 7-3
