It’s Official

The Seattle Mariners went into Wednesday afternoon’s game to sweep the A’s in Oakland. They had the opportunity to do so coming from behind to tie the score before a walk off home run by centerfielder Mark Canha in the bottom of the ninth off reliever Shae Simmons who is vying for a shot in the bullpen for next season. Erasmo Ramirez started the game for the Mariners going five innings giving up eight hits and five runs. Only three of the runs were earned. It wasn’t Ramirez most impressive outing like the previous one when he went eight innings against the Cleveland Indians and giving up one run on three hits.

 Erasmo Ramirez looks to compete for one of the two remaining spots in the rotation. Whether it is for the fourth or fifth spot will depend whether the Mariners are able to go out and a get another starter through a trade or free agency; right now the top three spots look to be Paxton, Hernandez and Leake. Not necessarily in that order either.

Mitch Haniger continues to have a hot month of September hitting. He had two hits scoring and driving in a run. Robinson Cano who has been struggling lately did have a couple hits that included a home run. The same thing happened with Cruz who had two hits including a home run. Cruz along with Haniger has been their two top hitters in September.

Catcher Mike Marjama made his first major league start on Wednesday and had two hits including the first in the major leagues. Most of the bottom half of the order didn’t do that well outside of Marjama. He may be competing for the backup role at catcher next spring training.

The Mariners next game is on Friday night in Anaheim against the Angels. Marco Gonzales will make his final start of the season to see if he can impress the coaching staff to be considered as a member of the starting rotation or in the bullpen instead. Andrew Moore will likely pitch Saturday and not sure who will pitch in the final game of the season on Sunday. It would be nice if the Mariners can do well in the final three games.

In football University of Washington Huskies will play Saturday late afternoon against the Oregon State Beavers in Corvallis Oregon and the Washington State will be at home playing the tough USC Trojans. In the NFL the Seahawks are at home against the Indianapolis Colts. They are hoping to even the season record at 2-2. So we root for all the teams to do well this weekend.