Around the start of the bottom of the 8th inning I began thinking about what I wanted to day about this game. Things were fairly encouraging. The Ms were up 4 to 1, playing pretty good ball to back up a strong start from Marco Gonzalez. But I was feeling uneasy. Already in mid-May this Mariners team has shown itself to be so unreliable that there is this uneasy feeling things could go wrong.
And they did. The reliever, Brennan walks the first two batters, looks like he's going to settle and get out of it and a wild pitch gives New York a run.
Top of the ninth. Ms waste a scoring opportunity, for the second time tonight runner out at home on a ground ball. Bottom of the ninth?
Swarzak gives up another home run. Two runs to tie. That's Swarzak's fifth home run in his last six appearances. Elias comes in... single, an out, a stolen base, a base hit. Game over.
M's at .500 for first, and most likely last time, this season.
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