THE CHEAP SEATS with STEVE CAMERON: Just one of those days at the ballpark

Sometimes the baseball gods just decide to even things up.

Pretend that these supernatural pitchers and catchers show up at the front door of a much better team.

“So, you think you can cruise through a season like the ’27 Yankees,” say the visitors.

“How about if you spend a day getting embarrassed, and coming back to Earth?”

Somewhere in a 162-game schedule, every team is going to spend a few days getting hammered.

It’s the nature of the game.

Wednesday afternoon happened to be the Mariners’ turn to take a beating — a 7-1 loss to the Mets in which they got outhit, outpitched and outhustled by a team that hasn’t displayed this sort of spark on its record.

Seattle strolled into the finale of this three-game series on an eight-game winning streak.

The M’s had turned an ugly season start into a 2 1/2-game lead over Texas atop the AL West, finally playing the sharp, bossy baseball that was expected of them.

According to the sport’s mythical gods, therefore, they were due to spend one game getting punched in the mouth.

Yep.

FOR THE first time in more than a week, the Mariners had no fun at the ballpark.

One rally died when Jhonny Pareda, who’s otherwise been terrific while subbing for injured star Cal Raleigh, mistakenly asked for a second timeout during an at-bat.

Strike three.

The Mets, meanwhile, managed three doubles in a row because the killer in the middle of that inning was a ground ball that hit the first base bag and dribbled into right field.

The Mariners also daydreamed into allowing a double steal, with Carson Benge scoring as Juan Soto snatched second base.

Even wounded as they are — Raleigh, Brendan Donovan and Josh Naylor have all missed time — the Mariners are a better bunch than the dead-average Mets (27-34).

But this was a day when that eight-game winning streak got evened out.

And to be honest, there was plenty of time to consider how good the Mariners will be at full strength.

For instance, George Kirby is still a legit starter, but he’s slid down the pecking order.

In 10 starts so far, Kirby has an ERA of 4.04 and he looks, well, hittable.

In fact, the Mariners’ rotation remains excellent, but each of the starters has been really clobbered at least once — a rarity over the past few seasons.

As for the bullpen, the good news is that Gabe Speier is healthy and throwing serious gas.

On the other side of things, Andres Munoz HAS to be the closer we’ve come to know.

Throw strikes!

IT’LL BE fun to see the Mariners’ complete crew, especially after watching for just 63 games (33-30 so far).

We weren’t expecting Colt Emerson to become the full-time third baseman just yet, and play like he’s been there for years.

Same for Cole Young at second, who is leading the club in RBIs.

(That’s not a misprint.)

There’s power everywhere now — J.P. Crawford has 10 homers already — and the only worry to this point has been the defense.

If this recent eight-game streak is even a hint of what the Mariners should be like when everyone is healthy, the postseason should be a good time.

But.

As we saw on Wednesday, the baseball gods can take everything away without so far as a warning.

Keep them out of town, and the place will rock.

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Steve Cameron’s “Cheap Seats” columns appear in The Press three times each week, normally Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday unless, you know, stuff happens.

Steve suggests you take his opinions in the spirit of a Jimmy Buffett song: “Breathe In, Breathe Out, Move On."