Mariners Even Series With Shut Out

The Seattle Mariners are now down to their final eight games to go with one remaining in Arlington Texas then come home to finish the season at Safeco Field.

Later in the evening the A’s won 3-2 in walk-off fashion over the Minnesota Twins so the Mariners are now out of the wild card race as well. It will be one of the Mariners disappointing seasons though it will be one of their top nine winning-est seasons on record even if they don’t win a single more game in the last eight.

Marco Gonzales had another outstanding outing going six innings giving up only one hit in the Mariners’ 13-0 shut out over the Rangers. The Mariners will conclude this road trip Sunday afternoon. If they win this game the road trip will end 7-3. When Gonzales left the game the Mariners were ahead 4-0. The Mariners didn’t score any runs until the fifth inning when Robinson Cano who has been hot on this road trip hit a three-run homer and then Mike Zunino hit his 20^th homer in the sixth inning.

Nick Vincent pitched the seventh inning after the Mariners scored another run in the top of the inning making it 5-0. He gave up two hits and a walk without giving up a run but didn’t me much to live on since his season has been so so.

In the eighth inning veteran Bartolo Colon gave up four runs to the Mariners including a two-run homer to Dee Gordon. Zach Curtis who the Mariners got in the trade with Jean Segura and Mitch Haniger has gone here and there since gave up the final run in the eighth inning plus three more in the ninth to put the game out of sight.

The Mariners now have the remaining game in Texas with Wade LeBlanc going for his ninth win of the season. The Mariners split the remaining eight games that will give the Mariners 89 wins on the season. It would be nice if they could win 90 wins on the season though they won’t make the playoffs.

James Paxton is hoping to take the mound on Monday back in Seattle. He would be going for his 12 win of the season. He would like to be able to make one other start as well. Right now Gonzales leads the team with 13 wins. Both he and Paxton would likely have at least 15 wins if they hadn’t missed some starts by being on the disabled list.

This season overall a good one it is still disappointing what it could have been. Next season it will be nice if the Mariners could get 18 wins out of Paxton and 17 out of Gonzales. I am sure that Dipoto will look to go out and find another starter.

It will be interesting to see what the everyday lineup will look like as well. Get to that later on after the season is over. Go M’s.