CHICAGO — At some-point this homer-bashing, pitch-count destroying, run-scoring fiesta of offense has to regress to a mean of some sort, right?
Eventually the Mariners have to return to some sort of normalcy, right?
The logic of baseball, laws of average and the disruptive nature of injuries, say, “yes.”
But it’s unlikely that any decline will result in the Mariners returning to the free-swinging, strikeout-prone run-challenged offenses of past years. The oft-preached, but not always followed, mantra of “Control The Zone” has seemed to have finally taken effect, and the results, well, they have been better than expected 11 games into 2019 season.