Even for a team that struggled with strikeouts mightily last year, looking at the box score of today’s game, with a swoonable eighteen strikeouts for the Mariners, might spur fans to find their fainting couches. Yet somehow the Mariners, despite having a strikeout total old enough to vote, defeated the Blue Jays, earning their fourth straight series win. Defense might win championships, but homers win baseball games, and the Mariners had a trio of those today, powering them to an 8-3 win despite the Blue Jays once again having near-constant traffic on the bases.
Dylan Moore, Certified Lefty Killer, started off the homer party against Blue Jays starter Easton Lucas and got the Mariners on the board three pitches in: