First of all, Simpsons purists, I know that Whacking Day officially falls on May 10, but because the Mariners and DBacks have historically never played each other often outside of spring training, let alone on May 10, we always assign the first game of spring against Arizona as Snake Whacking Day. And by “always,” I mean today, and in Eric’s first recap for the site way back in 2017, which you can read here if you’d like to do a little light time travel (Yovani Gallardo was the starting pitcher, if that tells you anything about the era of Mariners baseball you’re about to enter).
Mariners continue annual tradition of whacking some snakes on Snake Whacking Day, defeat Diamondbacks 6-3
