Mariners lose another one-run game against the Rangers that they should have won
George Kirby was brilliant; very little else was.
ARLINGTON, TEXAS - APRIL 7: Josh Naylor #12 of the Seattle Mariners fouls off a pitch against the Texas Rangers during the eighth inning at Globe Life Field on April 7, 2026 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Ron Jenkins/Getty Images) | Getty Images There will come a period in this season when time unspools languorously, with the unobtrusive ease of a sport that plays a game nearly every day. The edges will soften, the agonies and exaltations abating in equal measure.
You cannot sprint 162 times over. Now is not that period. Now, time does not unspool.
Time is a rusted coil of cables that has adhered to its massive spool on the docks through weather and neglect. It screeches when moved, an outraged howling against itself. Any ecstasy in progress makes the inevitable stoppage even more excruciating.
Orange leeches onto hands, smears across wood, stains all it touches, etching its furious reluctance into everything it possibly can. Eventually, it will not feel like this. View Link The Mariners are 12 games into the 2026 season, and… …they have lost eight of those games.