“It’s not easy to sweep in four games,” Hill said. 

“If you sweep in four games, I think they call that a mop,” Rick Rizzs said. This is his final year before retirement and his 41^st with the Mariners. 

Baseball started the weekend with that new-season smell still in force. There were loads of home openers on Friday; circumstance and pomp reigned in Boston, Denver, Sacramento. It remains reasonable to say it’s early yet, if a team is scuffling.