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Careening around the peaks and pikes of Sugar Rush Speedway -- that's Archer, Bauer, Salazar, Kluber, Pineda, with Taffyta Muttonfudge and Swizzle Malarkey up next -- the M's have been trying hard to glitch their way into a couple of leads.   Early in the game Sunday, Dr. D was not holding his breath.

Funny thing, though:  around the fifth curve, the Mariners took the high side on Salazar and caught no fence on the pass.  Logan Morrison led off with a clean off-field single and I don't care how many Dustin Ackleys you carry in your pit crew, you've now got:

• A run expectancy on the inning of +1,
• Your SP throwing great and already into the 6th,
• Your bullpen almost ready to go.

But this is exactly what's so frustrating about the M's, knowhutuhmean?  You've got a 240-lb. first baseman with an average batted-ball velocity of 120 MPH, and he can ping a single the other way, and ... we've been the better part of a month since his last home run.  Here we are again.