Mariners miffed about Sunday woes

SEATTLE — The uniforms are to blame.

At least that’s Mariners’ manager Scott Servais’s explanation for Seattle’s 1-7 Sunday home game record this season.

“It’s something I’ve thought long and hard about. I appreciate our marketing department and everybody putting out the different looks for the Mariners, but as I thought last night at about 1 a.m. in the morning I came to the conclusion it had to be tied to the uniform,” Servais joked.

The day after an 8-1 loss to the Astros in which the Mariners defense committed a season-high four errors, Servais knew the question was coming. He ran with the joke, saying he would work on implementing a change and even offered a solution:

“I would actually like to wear the white pants with the navy blue top at home,” he said. “And if that doesn’t work, I don’t know what will.”

But after the laughs died down, he struggled to find a cause behind the Mariners’ Sunday woes.

“Typically on the Sunday game at home you don’t hit,” Servais said. “We talked about it early in the year: For whatever reason … we played better when we …

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