Mariners Moose Tracks, 5/26/24: Ben Williamson, Bryce Harper, and José Ramírez

It’s Sunday, and if it’s Sunday, it’s Meet the Links.

In Mariners news...

• It’s never a good thing to be on the receiving end of a Jay Cuda tweet.

• Was he using the glow-in-dark bat?

• Just your typical 2-RBI 8-4-2-5 double play to end the top of the seventh. If you’ve seen it once you’ve seen it a million times.

• Ben Williamson was absolutely motoring around the bases for an inside-the-park homerun, and if you were wondering, Corpus Christi left-fielder Colin Barber did stay in the game after this play.

• And somehow Ben Williamson and the Modesto Nuts were still outshined in the “playing bizarre baseball” category last night, because the Rainiers managed to push across six runs on one (1) hit to win their game against Las Vegas last night! Truly a wild day out on the farm.

• This is a perfectly innocuous tweet that’s just having a little fun, but ever since I saw it this morning I haven’t been able to mentally escape the idea of the “Seattle Walkers.” You could argue that Walkers isn’t really a good opposite for Mariners, and someone in the comments points out that Pilots would probably be a better opposite, but Walkers is funny to me because then I think of Walker, Texas Ranger and in this alternate reality other people would likely make this same loose connection, and then look at the Texas Outlaws and think “huh, Texas Rangers probably would’ve been a better name than Outlaws.” I’m overtired and overthinking this, I just thought it was funny.

Around the league...

• A once-in-a-generation hater. We’re witnessing greatness.

• Remember when José Ramírez was having a slow start to the season?

• Birmingham Southern Baseball is officially advancing to the D3 College World Series, and their first game will be played on Friday, May 31, the same day their school will be closing permanently due to a lack of funding. The team was 13-10 when they received the news that their school would no longer exist at the end of the year, and has since gone 18-4. On top of all that, a whopping nine players on the Birmingham Southern roster woke up Saturday morning with food poisoning, with one player having to go to the hospital, and the other eight needing IVs in order to play yesterday.