The Week Ahead For The Seattle Mariners: Nowhere To Go But Up (Or, You Know, The Other Thing)

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Ah, man, I know it's a Mariners post when I read it over and it contains the words tough, rough, brutal, ludicrous, nosedive and decimated and I didn't even mean to do that. 

But here goes...

The last-place Mariners are now underway at Nationals Park, where they face the first-place Washington Nationals in a three-game series. They have a 7-16 road record, They have Christian Bergman on the mound, making just his third start of the season - all of which have happened because of a decimated Mariners rotation.

The Mariners are coming off a series against the Chicago White Sox where they looked the worst they have all season - yes, even worse than that four-game sweep in Toronto that was the beginning of this latest nosedive down the standings.

So,,,yeah. They have all that going for them.

But stranger things have happened than turning around a rough first quarter of a season on a road trip. And all the things written here just the other day still apply. Plus Bergman has pitched well. And Robinson Cano is coming back. And they are going to miss the top of the Nationals rotation.

It's hard to get overly optimistic until they get back at least some of the absolutely ludicrous number of players currently on the DL. Hopefully, Cano is the start of that. This week, it seems smart just to focus on trying to climb out of last place.

Mariners Schedule and Links

So, it's the Nationals the next three games, then a trip to Fenway Park to play the Boston Red Sox. We won't even look ahead to early next week, when they play a two-and-two series against the Colorado Rockies. On top of everything else, it's a brutal time to have a tough schedule.

Lookout Landing breaks down the Nationals series.

The Seattle Times recounts the crazy amount of injuries this team has suffered.

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