Mariners pitching has given up 20 combined runs over the past three games. That’s not something you expect. Also not something you expect: a 7-0 lead that is obliterated, forcing the Mariners to play their fourth-straight extra-innings contest in a row, barely snatching victory from the jaws of no seriously this should have been a pretty easy victory, what the heck guys.
For as odd as this stretch of games has been, the Mariners stretched the definition of “anything can happen in baseball” to close to its breaking point today. After a quiet first three innings, the Mariners suddenly remembered they were facing Jordan Lyles in the fourth inning, and proceeded to hit four (4) homers.