344/.375/.563 slash line with the bases loaded, which is the second-highest batting average in MLB. While the operating theory/complaint among the fan base is that the Mariners are awful with the bases loaded and never score, it isn’t true based on season stats. Ty France took a walk and Mike Ford, with the help of a replay review challenge, was hit on his foot with a pitch to load the bases. In the fifth, Teoscar Hernandez doubled with one out to start the rally.
With the win, the Mariners improved to 47-46 on the season.
The result of that change: base runners, hits and runs, including four off Gray in the fifth and another in the sixth.Ī drama-free ninth inning turned tense with two outs when rookie reliever Ty Adcock gave up a three-run homer to Max Kepler, turning a comfortable four-run lead into only one.īut Paul Sewald came in to strike out Ryan Jeffers and secure Seattle’s 7-6 victory. With every hitter in the lineup seeing Gray at least once, the Mariners started to force him back into the strike zone, refusing to help him out with wild swings at pitches out of the zone. Not on this particularly cool and breezy Monday evening. Would it be another night of Mariners manager Scott Servais lamenting an offense that simply cannot find any sort of consistency with its approach and production? Using his wide assortment of pitches – none of them straight – Gray had Seattle hitters off balance and uncomfortable. Meanwhile, they were verifying the All-Star selection of Twins starter Sonny Gray, who cruised through the first four innings, holding the Mariners scoreless, allowing two hits and striking out five batters. Their starter, Logan Gilbert, was using far too many pitches to get outs, with no hope of making it past the fifth inning. SEATTLE – For the first four innings, the Mariners seemed destined to take a step back in their never-ending dance between a winning and losing record – call it the mambo of mediocrity.
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