In yesterday’s recap, I examined the Mariners and A’s as two upstart teams, having asked Scott Servais a question pregame about if he’d ever played on a team like the 2024 Oakland A’s: Plucky Overperformers. The Mariners crushed the A’s 8-1, seemingly answering the question about where each team was on their developmental curve. However, tonight the script reversed, with the A’s hammering the Mariners by the same score, creating an unpleasant mirror image of last night’s game.
About the only good thing to be said about tonight’s Mariner game is that is was short, clocking in at a lean two hours, twenty-one minutes.