After a particularly bad storm in Aeneid, Virgil’s hero tells his crew, “Haec olim meminisse jubait.” Translations vary, but it basically means, “Someday, we’ll laugh about this.” Dropping four in a row, each in brutal fashion, to the Tigers and Pirates counts as a pretty brutal storm. It caps off a 60-day stretch during which the Mariners set an MLB record for how fast a team has ever blown a 10-game lead. Now they sit 3 games behind a surging Astros team, with their playoff odds having fallen from over 90% to about 1 in 4.
Mariners continue to kill the buzz, lose to Pirates 5-3
