MLB

ST. LOUIS – Launch angle? Exit velocity? Barrel rate? xwOBA?

ST. LOUIS – In calling on Dan Wilson and Edgar Martinez, the Mariners turned back the clock (hello, 1995) to try to inspire a turnaround with a team desperate some semblance of an offensive pulse.

SEATTLE – Whatever you’re feeling right now about the Mariners, it’s valid.

OAKLAND, Calif. – As the Mariners trudge through the final weeks of a 2024 season, trying desperately to have it not end the same as so many seasons past, the looming failure to finish just short of the postseason isn’t expected to result in repercussions for the top leadership in the front office.

OAKLAND, Calif. – The winning pitcher in the Mariners’ final game played at the venerable and decaying Oakland Coliseum was from a kid that was born and raised less than 3 miles from the concrete structure that will soon be without a baseball team for the first time since 1968.

ST. LOUIS – For seven innings Saturday night, Logan Gilbert was as good as ever. Maybe better than ever.

OAKLAND, Calif. – In the 12th game of his major league managerial career, Dan Wilson seems to have uncovered the perfect game plan to avoid the frustrating and crushing feeling of losing by one run or on a walkoff hit.

Manzardo, recalled on Sunday when the rosters expanded to 28 players, hit his first two big league homers in consecutive at-bats to help the Guardians beat the Pirates.

OAKLAND, Calif. – The fun differential has been replaced by the fail differential.

Jacob, the North Central graduate and former Gonzaga standout, pitched the final 3 2/3 innings of an 11-4 loss on Saturday — more than he had thrown at any level in professional baseball.

I think we can agree that this was never about Scott Servais.

OAKLAND, Calif. – When the ball exited off the barrel of Shea Langeliers’ bat at a ridiculous rate of speed, there was little doubt the towering blast was going to go well over the fence in left field.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – Sitting in the “suite” assigned for opposing executives and watching his team slowly play its way out of a postseason spot that seemed so likely in mid-June, Jerry Dipoto had to wonder why he ended his self-imposed hiatus and returned to Angel Stadium.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – When the obituary to the Mariners’ 2024 regular season is written, and if it comes before they’ve played 162 games, their inability to beat the Angels will be looked at as one of the major reasons for their failure.

ANAHEIM, Calif. – The game shouldn’t have been such an ordeal. The Seattle Mariners took advantage of a young pitcher making his major league debut and a costly mistake to score five runs in the first inning.

SEATTLE – Dan Wilson says he doesn’t care how the wins come, but come on – these types are auspicious.

SEATTLE – The particulars of their conversations, well, Julio Rodriguez would prefer to keep those private.

SEATTLE – The storyline to defeat wasn’t unfamiliar to Dan Wilson.

SEATTLE – Randy Arozarena misses being a member of the Tampa Bay Rays. It’s obvious from the wistful look on his face when he talked about playing against them over the next few days at T-Mobile Park. And the time spent in the visiting clubhouse before Monday’s series opener.