By the final game of a four-game series where the Mariners have already dropped the first three, the handwriting isn’t on the wall so much as it is burned in with acid and a flamethrower. But, as we’ve seen time and time again as Mariners fans, you have to play out the string every season, serving as bit players in other teams’ championship stories. The Royals are a team ostensibly in the same barely-floating boat as the Mariners, but pushed their way to the forefront of the stage in this series, leaving the Mariners background players in their own ballpark.
Mariners win victory, lose war against Royals, own history of failure
