Mariners Win Final Game of Road Trip

It was nice to see the Mariners win the final game on the road trip in Texas. The odds were not looking good since they were facing Yu Darvish for the Rangers and the Mariners had not done well in the first two games in Texas however the Mariner bats were able to get four runs off of Darvish including a two-run homer by Danny Valencia in the first inning.

The Mariners have done quite well when they are able to score early in the game and the Mariners pitching is able to stop the other teams hitting. Recently the other team has been able to score early and often in the games on this road trip. On the positive side they ended the road trip going 3-4. They split the four games in Minnesota and won the final game in Texas after losing the first two games.

Other good news besides going home this week the Mariners are expecting Felix Hernandez to take the mound on Friday night against the Houston Astros. Before facing the Astros the Mariners will be in a four game series against the Detroit Tigers. It would be nice to get three wins against the Tigers and take two out of three from the Astros. The Mariners have had their struggles against Houston but so has almost everyone. The Astros currently have a record of 46-24 and they are eleven games ahead of second place Texas Rangers who are even at 34-34. The Mariners who are in fourth place in the American League West are a game and a half behind the Texas Rangers while the Los Angeles Angels are a game ahead of the Mariners. The Mariners are two games ahead of the Oakland A’s.

Facing the Detroit Tigers the Mariners are taking on a team that has a worse record than they do. The Tigers have a record of 32-36 while the Mariners are at 34-37. Rookie starter Sam Gaviglio will take the mound Monday night for the Mariners against Anibal Sanchez for the Tigers. This will be his first start of the season. He has pitched in eleven games in relief with an era of 9.00 and has just returned from Triple A.  So the Mariners should have a good shot scoring runs against him hopefully starting off early in the game.

The rest of the series against Detroit on Tuesday Ariel Miranda who struggled in his last outing however has won more games than any other Mariner pitcher will face Jordan Zimmerman who has had quality starts in his last three games however gave up eleven hits against the Mariners in April. Wednesday game will be the one of the series where we hope that James Paxton will rebound after two poor outings and he will be face Justin Verlander. The series will conclude with Yovani Gallardo who has struggled almost all season for the Mariners against Daniel Norris who has won his last two outings for the Tigers. We hope this will be a good successful series for the Mariners.  Go M’s.