The Weirdest Stat in 100 Years: How the Mariners Started Their Season Without Doing This
Only two games in, and the Seattle Mariners have already done something that basically never happens in baseball. They haven't hit a single. Not one. Through their first two games at T-Mobile Park, the M's are the first team since at least 1900 to start a season without recording a single, according to MLB.com's Sarah Langs. Yeah, you read that right.
Six Homers, Zero Singles, and One Very Weird Stat
Here's where it gets absolutely wild. The Mariners are 1-1 through two games with nine hits total. Those nine hits? Six home runs, two doubles, and one triple. No singles. They went deep six times without managing to slap one up the middle or poke one into the gap for a base hit. It's such a rare thing that they're only the ninth team ever to go without a single in any two-game stretch, and the first since the 2021 Chicago Cubs.
What makes this even crazier is that T-Mobile Park is literally the hardest place in the league to hit a triple. The ballpark has a park factor score of 52, which is 28th out of 28 stadiums (100 is average). Yankee Stadium, the second hardest, sits at 63. Yet the Mariners somehow managed to hit that triple at home anyway.
How That Triple Actually Happened
Leo Rivas hit a flyball to right field on Friday night that Guardians rookie Chase DeLauter nearly made a diving catch on. The ball popped out of his glove, and Rivas raced to third for a leadoff triple in the bottom of the third inning. A little luck was definitely involved there.
There might have been some help from the scorekeeper too. On opening day, Randy Arozarena smoked a sharp line drive to left-center that should have been an easy play for Guardians left fielder Angel Martinez, but he let it get through his legs. Arozarena hustled into second and it was scored a double, but it could have gone the other way as a single and an error.
The Mariners face Cleveland again Saturday at 6:40 p.m. at T-Mobile Park. Catch the pregame show on Seattle Sports 710 AM and the Seattle Sports app starting at 5:30 p.m. Only time will tell if they finally get that first single.
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