Would you believe this game will complete the first tenth of the season? The Mariners will try to ride the wave of their best game and their best stretch of baseball into this afternoon’s tilt to see if they can get through 10% of the year at .500.
To win today’s game, they’ll turn their hopes on Logan Gilbert outdeuling Nathan Eovaldi, a matchup I find delightful. This whole series has featured compelling pitching matchups: two native Texans on Friday, a pair of 2021 draftees on Saturday, and now this. Gilbert really faded his cutter toward the back half of last year, and hasn’t thrown one at all yet in 2025, but with the cutter, he and Eovaldi feature the same pitch mix.