That escalated quickly. The Mariners needed a Brendan Donovan replacement, and there were plenty of perfectly normal ways for Will Wilson to introduce himself. A clean single through the left side would have worked. A professional at-bat would have played. Maybe even a walk, if we were really leaning into the sensible baseball pamphlet version of this story. Instead, Wilson decided to skip the small talk. In the top of the second inning against the Cardinals, in his first at-bat as a Mariner, Wilson turned on a pitch from St. Louis left-hander Matthew Liberatore and sent it out for a two-run homer. Just like that, his first hit with Seattle was not only his first home run as a Mariner. It was his first career MLB home run. The timing made it even better. This was supposed to be a series with a very different infield subplot. Donovan, the former Cardinal, should have been active for this one. There was a tidy homecoming narrative gift-wrapped and begging to be used.…