Mariners read Love’s Labour’s Lost, misinterpret it as “Love to Lose on Labor Day”, fall to A’s 5-4

The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo, or why can’t this team win on the road?

There’s a reason the A’s, despite all their struggles, are outperforming the Angels currently: where the Angels went deep on pitching, assembling a decent-ish buffet of starters and a very deep bullpen, the A’s put a bunch of big bopping boys in their lineup and told them to swing away. Do they strike out a lot? Yes! But also, sometimes they don’t, and...