SEATTLE — Jarred Kelenic walked into the Mariners dugout of T-Mobile Park with his head, eyes, already red from tears, fixed on the walking boot on his left foot.
In a season where so much had gone right for him and he was starting to move closer to being the player that he and everyone else believed he could be, the player he used to be, the one he had been working so hard to move away from, reappeared in the final moments of Wednesday’s 6-3 loss to the Twins.
After losing a difficult nine-pitch at-bat with Twins closer Jhoan Duran, who was firing fastballs at 104 mph and then dropped a 90-mph slider on the outside corner for a called strike three, Kelenic’s anger and frustration of being unable to deliver with runners on first and second and nobody out couldn’t be contained.
