For a team that relies seemingly entirely on endless clutch moments to win one-run games, extra innings contests, and unthinkable comebacks, this was a novelty.
Cole Irvin, whose comments have been widely circulated and lampooned, has not seen success against the Mariners in either of his previous two starts against them.
The Mariners, having expressed with only the slightest of opacity their disdain for his remarks, entered the game with yet another chip on their shoulder and momentum on their side.
All this is to say that shock at this win and this mode of winning, feigned or not, is understandable but unwarranted.
There is no script heading into the upcoming series against the Royals: nothing to cling to aside from the assumption that the Mariners are likely the better team.
So use the off day to relish in seeing success from Kelenic and Torrens, Murphy and Moore.