This one could’ve been easy, and early on it was. With runs in both the 2nd and 3rd innings, Seattle had a 2-0 lead through five innings that felt far more luxurious. Guillermo Heredia had a brilliant day, with an RBI single in the second that Mitch Haniger matched an inning later. But the Mariners didn’t put the game away, and for what felt like the story of this entire week, Seattle was unable to adjust.
Both Mike Zunino and his counterpart James McCann played home plate umpire Tim Timmons like a fiddle, seemingly daring one another to see how many inches away they could extract a strike.