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SEAside Thoughts: Mariners a quarter of the way to making us all sad

With the Mariners sitting at 22-24 at the quarter point of the season (before the Athletics series), it’s safe to say this is not how fans thought the season would start. A nine-game road trip that saw the Mariners just miss out on the opportunity to sweep the Detroit Tigers, ended with two disappointing series losses in Boston and Atlanta.

The Mariners find themselves seven games behind the AL West leading Texas Rangers and five games back of Houston for the final wildcard spot. People can keep saying it’s early, but if we don’t see a spark, or some series wins against teams not named Oakland and Detroit, the season could get away from them.

Struggles in the smaller parks

Fenway Park was not kind to the Seattle Mariners again. After an impressive 10-1 win to start the series, the M’s were outscored by two touchdowns (21-7) in the final two games. It got me thinking, do the Mariners have a small ballpark problem? Specifically Fenway and Houston’s Minute Maid Park.

Since 2019, the Mariners are a whopping 9-44 in those two ballparks combined. While Houston has been the standard of excellence (365-228) for a while, the Red Sox have been just over .500, sitting at 304-290. The Mariners, in comparison, have been 298-295.

What is missing that has caused Seattle so many woes?

Cal Raleigh quietly having a good season

If I told you before the season that both Jarred Kelenic and Cal Raleigh would be having all-star caliber seasons, you’d probably guess that Seattle would be one of the best teams in all of baseball. While that isn’t the case right now, that doesn’t mean the Big Dumper doesn’t deserve some praise.

In front of his family, Cal became the first catcher to ever hit home runs from both sides of the plate in Fenway Park. He put on quite the show with his grandmother in attendance.