The randomness of regular-season results, including the unexpected outcomes of games, is a somewhat accepted and romantic charm of the marathon that is a 162-game baseball season.
The sheer number of games, and the possibility of a starting pitcher influencing the final score in either way, allows for some understanding when the worst team in baseball beats the best team in baseball.
And yet, when the Mariners jogged on to the manicured surface of T-Mobile Park in Monday night’s opener of a 10-game homestand, the possibility of losing that game against the Oakland Athleics should’ve been between not happening and never.
