The great thing about baseball is that even after a teeth-achingly bad loss, you usually get a chance to get right back after it the next day; there’s no stewing in one’s own juices for a week like in the NFL. However, the other extreme of this is having to get hyped up again to play a doubleheader a half hour after the previous game ended, with a bench shortened by injury, after your bullpen blew a huge lead to lose the game on a walkoff. Nevertheless! The Mariners played, and again kept pace with the red-hot Padres, and this time got the ending they should have had earlier.
Seven words for seven more innings of Mariners baseball (Mariners defeat Padres 8-3)
