Shorthanded Mariners can’t keep up with Rangers, drop second game of series 5-1

Pitching struggles, offense can’t string together hits, as Mariners fall back down to .500

The Mariners were running shorthanded tonight, with their starting catcher out of commission with a dental emergency and their starting shortstop out with oblique soreness (apparently he felt something during BP; he’ll get an MRI and apparently they’ll know more in the morning). While replacement leadoff hitter Josh Rojas and replacement shortstop Dylan Moore...