Mariners face a good team, play like a better team

There are always moments in life where we feel overwhelmed, deceived, a cocker spaniel among wolves. Even if the surface level is similar – cocker spaniels and wolves are both dogs, the Mariners and Dodgers are both baseball teams – some basic analyzes will reveal major differences.

The thing about the Los Angeles Dodgers is that they are very good. Almost too good. While the Seattle Mariners played a beautifully chaotic, overwhelming baseball brand that led to some victories, let me let you know a little secret. They are not as good as the Dodgers. But, from the right angle with ample lighting, any dog ​​can look like a wolf.

José Marmolejos, career minor league, confirmed wolf. Dustin May, stranger with a good arm, confirmed wolf food. With the unlikely play of the least qualified clearer in the league, the Mariners quickly had an edge over the World Series winners. Most of this season was that the Ms would return in the early hours of the morning, but their style of chaos could also apply to visitors at the golden hour. No matter how the rebuilding takes place or what happens to the backbone that makes up the grid, one thing is clear. They scare no one. These include Taylor Trammell, a rookie who strikes opposite the field junctions at 104.9 MPH into the deepest part of the park.

With a 3-0 lead while all night ahead to add, the Mariners rightly got excited. The same innings that ended exuberance and Trammell’s vigor ended when JP Crawford skipped the base and was noticed trying to steal second, surely a result of being too strong. It was for sure understandable, and if anything, more of a reminder of it direct repetition does not have to go that far. Crawford did nothing wrong in itself, but the baseball gods chose to punish the Mariners for it. First by overturning the initial call and excluding Crawford, then by blessing Mookie Betts and Corey Seager with annoying talent.

With twice in the third time, the Dodgers turned their series around, and the Betts-Seager duo saw Justus Sheffield for the second time. They hit a double and a home run to bring the Dodgers back within a run. Wolves everywhere.

Seager’s goal – scoring home run meant that Sheffield allowed more home games in three strange ways than he did in 2020. Truck-ian lefty missed his places throughout the third inning. Justin Turner follows the barrage of Betts-Seager with a double shot of his own, causing a much-needed hill visit. It probably did something like, “Get this guy out,” exactly what Sheffield did. He broke this 0-2 pitch on his knees to achieve something Uncle Phil had always dreamed of: getting rid of Will Smith.

As dusk grew dark, it was the Dodgers who looked like a sheep, in-over-their-head team, not the almighty Seattle Mariners. The Ms took a run again in the fourth time when Chris Taylor launched a routine attack. That put Luis Torrens on first base, and Trammell hit him with a double on the right field line, his second batted ball of the night to give a three-figure exit rate. Then it was time for a staple of bad baseball, the kind that any fan of the minor leagues knows all too well, though it never seems the frustration. At the bottom of the fifth, Dustin May gave Ty France a new Rawlings tattoo.

France took his base grimly before going to the clubhouse for X-rays which happily came back negative. Los Angeles chased back in sixth place and chased Sheffield in the process, before the game ended its final thriller. The 4-3 lead, after just getting a solid outing from their starter and having enough offense to put the defending champions on the ropes, it was time to find out if the Mariners had it in them. If ever there was a time for haters to hold their day, it would have been now. Again, it’s the Los Angeles Dodgers, who have more consecutive division titles than the Mariners have in total. This raises a centuries-old question. Who would win: a ferocious pack of wolves with more money than God, or a few guys named Kendall and Dylan?

When Dylan Moore stuck to the potential game-connecting lead, we were all taken back to his catch in Félix’s last game. But we were also taken to a place we had not been to since the early days of 2018 – a place of trust. The ball hitting his glove feels like the Mariners hitting the winning column. There’s something charmingly poetic about Moore, Seattle’s $ 590,000 handyman who did not even start this game on the third base, and makes an astonishing catch, while Mookie Betts and his $ 365 million contract can only look in disbelief. The same goes for Graveman, a career beginner who struggled with injuries and inefficiencies before reliving his career in the Mariners’ bullpen. Every time Graveman throws (and he throws well, like no merit runs in his last ten appearances), he seems to be angry at the baseball for all the years it has betrayed him. This, my friends, is when you know a wolf has arrived there.

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Rafael Montero did his best to kick the fat lady out of the studio, but eventually he got a homemade jam to close the rescue. He induced Corey Seager in a 4-6-3 double play to end the ball game, leaving Justin Turner’s bat in the circle on the deck. By the way, someone on the streaming site I used said Turner looks like the human version of fruit learning. I think it’s very nice.

When Montero finally slammed the door, the Mariners officially balanced a chaos after an 11^de victory. They will go to bed knowing that no American league team has more wins than they have, and they have the most recent one against a team that will be head and shoulders above them. Honestly, the Dodgers is head and shoulders above the Mariners. Seattle are likely to fall victim to the same fate that plagued their 2019 team. But for now, they not only hang on to the best teams in the league, they beat them, and tonight they did so in the best game of the season.

The victories are piled up, the haters are roaring, and these wolves are crying their way to a fun April.