Maybe it’s the tongue-in-cheek forced rivalry between the two clubs, maybe it’s the fact that the Padres and Mariners share a facility in Arizona and see a lot of each other, but there’s something about a series against the Padres that always feels a little more familiar than a random interleague series. Today the Mariners visited their cousins down south and despite the Padres possessing the better record and better weather, the scrappy cousins from the Upper Left took over the family barbecue and defeated the Padres in their own backyard.
The Mariners took advantage of a not-settled-in Sean Manaea in the first, jumping on him for two runs after J.