NEW YORK — They have won games by doing the absolute minimum in terms of runs scored. They’ve even come out ahead in games where the normally strong starting pitching falters.
BALTIMORE — Unprompted, Scott Servais offered a lofty compliment to the Orioles’ Gunnar Henderson during the Mariners manager’s pregame media gathering Sunday morning.
BALTIMORE – A long, slow, agonizing afternoon stretched into a long, slow, agonizing evening for the Mariners, who endured a three-hour weather delay before having to endure the nastiness of Orioles young flamethrower Grayson Rodriguez.
SEATTLE – The automatic ball-strike system was introduced in Triple-A baseball a couple of years ago, and there is widespread belief that its arrival at the major-league level is inevitable – coming perhaps as soon as 2025.
SEATTLE – Back in 2008, beloved media figure and occasional philosopher Tim Kurkjian wrote, “Baseball is the best game in part because every night you go to the ballpark, you might see something you’ve never seen before.”
Andres Muñoz hoisted the celebratory piece in the air with his right arm, drawing a roar from the remaining crowd gathered behind the T-Mobile Park home dugout and punctuating a gutsy performance from the Seattle Mariners’ patchwork bullpen in a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals.
“Hot Dogs from Heaven,” as the Mariners’ marketing team dubbed it, is the latest attempt by a Major League Baseball team to push the envelope for its in-game promotions.
