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Offense dulls Castillo’s gem with another punchless performance

Conventional baseball wisdom would have you believe that making a pitcher work usually results in positive outcomes for the offense. Today the Mariners, defiers of convention, worked nine full counts, and they scored exactly one (1) run. That’s because all those full counts often ended up in outs or strikeouts—four strikeouts, to be exact, en route to an eye-wateringly-bad...

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