Placebo effect be damned, spring training of it all respectfully set aside, wins that come from Seattle Mariners offensive downpours just hit differently. No amount of rain and grey outside my window can deluge the sunshine coming to me through my screen from Peoria. I refuse to be nonchalant about a box score where both the hits and the runs on Seattle’s side are higher numbers than the strikeouts, which are somehow not in the double digits. Today the Mariners won against the Arizona Diamondbacks 11-5, and my “baseball is back” buzz has reached a pleasing hum.
The start of spring was less fortuitous to Seattle’s current lock-in for sixth man in the rotation, Emerson Hancock, who looked to be in 2024 form.