As the sun began to dip over Seattle, a prophecy was muttered, disguised as a tongue-in-cheek comment in a certain game thread. Nonetheless, word traveled quickly, and reached T-Mobile Park right before first pitch. The only question was, would the Seattle Mariners heed it? Or face the consequences?
With a salvageable series split behind them, the Mariners pressed on tonight against the ever-pesky Guardians. With one head of the hydra that is Seattle’s rotation temporarily down for the count in Bryan Woo, Emerson Hancock was summoned to take his place, and he got off to a brilliant start, needing just fifteen pitches to cruise through the first two frames and spreading his pitch mix evenly between his two fastballs and changeup.