#MARINERS SCORE TONIGHT SERIES#

With Jax used and Duran not available, Twins manager Rocco Baldelli turned to the enigmatic Jorge Lopez. Wallner struck out, Willi Castro was intentionally walked, and pinch-hitter Donovan Solano struck out to send the game to extras. Kepler got yet another hit, yanking a breaking ball on the outer part of the plate down the right-field line for a double, scoring Kirilloff to tie the game.

After a Kyle Farmer groundout, Alex Kirilloff came through in the second straight game by knocking a double off the glove of a leaping Taylor Trammell in the left-center field gap. The Twins, however, rekindled their ninth-inning magic from Sunday in the bottom of the ninth against the usually solid Andres Munoz. But Cal Raleigh pushed a single through the shift on the seventh pitch of his at-bat, and, improbably, pinch-hitter Kolten Wong - owner of a sub-.500 OPS coming into the game - hooked a spinning breaking ball into the front-right corner of the overhang in right field to give the Mariners a 3-2 lead. Jax retired Ty France on one pitch and struck out Murphy on five pitches. The Twins went down again quickly in the bottom of the inning, and with Jhoan Duran unavailable, Griffin Jax came on to attempt to protect the slimmest of leads in the ninth. After a scoreless bottom of the seventh, Jordan Balazovic gave up a leadoff single to Julio Rodriguez but stranded him on third, coming through once again in what is becoming an increasingly high-leverage role for the rookie. Maeda walked two out of the first three batters of the seventh but Jovani Moran came on to get the final two outs of the half-inning. The Twins threatened again when they got back up to bat but Julien made the third out at third base after another Kepler single. Maeda came back out for a three-up, three-down sixth inning. Christian Vazquez fought off an inside fastball and pushed it down the left-field line to score Larnach, and the Twins had a 2-1 lead. After a flyout from Matt Wallner and an insane over-the-shoulder catch from Eugenio Suarez on a Willi Castro foul pop-up, Trevor Larnach tripled off the wall in right-center to score Kepler from first. The Twins answered immediately, with Max Kepler scratching out the Twins’ first hit to lead off the bottom of the frame. Crawford later in the game but kept the game 1-0. Catcher Tom Murphy somehow poked the ball over the tall wall just to the right of the batter’s eye to lead off the top of the fifth. On the flip side, the Twins didn’t get their first baserunner until the bottom of the fourth, when Eddie Julien coaxed a one-out walk.Įven with Maeda’s Houdini act early, Mariners scored before the home team. He also struck out five batters in the first four innings, all on his splitter. Kenta Maeda scattered several baserunners, allowing at least one in each of the first three innings, but Seattle never advanced a man past second base. The first four innings were all about the starting pitchers. This entire game had a case of whiplash, really.

Drew Smith bounced back and did well to limit the damage, retiring the next three batters he faced, but Sewald and Drew Steckenrider managed to make the one-run lead stand up for the Mariners, handing the Mets a loss.Talk about a roller coaster. Ty France then singled to plate the go-ahead run for the Mariners.

But, former Met Paul Sewald came in the game in relief of Gonzales and recorded a key strikeout of Starling Marte to kill the rally.ĭrew Smith, who had yet to be scored upon this season, entered the tie game in the eighth inning and walked the first two batters he faced, putting himself in a heap of trouble with nobody out. Unfortunately, the Mets were unable to do any further damage against Gonzales despite an opportunity with runners on second and third with two out in the seventh. Scherzer uncharacteristically hit two batters with pitches tonight-the first two times he’s done that this season-but was otherwise sharp. Crawford and Jesse Winker each singled to drive him in. The Mariners managed to tie the game in the fourth when Scherzer hit Ty France with a pitch and J.P. Max Scherzer was excellent tonight, holding the Mariners to just one run on three hits with six strikeouts through seven innings of work.

#MARINERS SCORE TONIGHT SERIES#

The Mets looked like they had Mariners lefty Marco Gonzales figured out early, as they got out to a 1-0 lead in the first inning and made Gonzales work hard over the first couple of frames, but unfortunately the Mets allowed him to settle in and ultimately fell to the Mariners 2-1 in this series opener.

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