Incredible Win For the Mariners

 The home and away series against the San Diego Padres was something else. It ended with an amazing turnaround on Thursday night when the Mariners beat the Padres 16-13.

The Mariners were behind 12-2 going into the sixth inning after the Padres had scored seven runs in the bottom of the fifth inning. The highlight of the sixth inning for the Mariners was a three-run homer off the bat of Dae-Ho Lee who was pinch hitting for Adam Lind. The homer made the score 12-7. The bottom of the sixth the Padres did not score a run.

We than go to the seventh inning that so amazing. Nelson Cruz came to bat with the bases loaded and struck out after hitting off about ten pitches. At that point I was thinking it would be nice if Kyle Seager could get a single to drive in a couple runs to give the Mariners some hope. He actually did that to make the score 12-9. He was followed by Dae-Ho- Lee who hit the ball the other way to right field to score two more runs to make it 12-11. More hits followed that put the Mariners ahead 16-12. The Mariners had seven hits in a row scoring all nine runs with the two outs. Everyone got into the act that allowed a few guys to get up two times in the seventh inning. Stefan Romero pinched hit and lined the ball into center field to tie the game and then Sean O’Malley who had already pinch hit earlier in the inning hit a single to put the Mariners into the lead. I am sure no one has ever seen anything like it. Former Mariner catcher Dave Valle on the post-game on Roots Sports said that he never seen anything like it in all thirty-eight years he has been in baseball. In the seventh inning the Mariners only hit singles no extra base hits. Many of the at-bats they made the Padre pitchers through seven or eight pitches before getting a hit. In total the Padres threw seventy pitches in the seventh inning. When you figure that a typical baseball game a team throws between one hundred and twenty or thirty it is even more mind boggling.

Now the Mariners go to take on the Texas Rangers in Arlington Texas. With the Rangers and the Mariners both at the top of the American League West what will we see this weekend? Will we go back to normal baseball or see more of what happened against the Padres. With the Mariners I have to say we should expect the unexpected. They could sweep the Rangers, be swept by the Rangers, win one or two games. Right now we have to say the Mariners are an entertaining team to watch. We hope this goes through the whole summer.  Go M’s!