In the immortal words of Tom DeLonge, work sucks. I know. Especially when you’re nearly smack in the middle of a stretch of seventeen straight days without a break, as these Seattle Mariners currently are. It wasn’t a perfect three-city East Coast trip - far from it, in fact - but today the M’s put their heads down, got back to the grind, and capped off the gauntlet with a triumph over the Nationals, avoiding being swept for the first time all year in the process.
Nothing came across for either team in the first, with Patrick Corbin striking out J.