Yankees Shut Out Mariners Friday Night

There is nothing really to say more about the Mariners offense except that it isn’t working. It would be nice to have neither Seager or Gordon in the lineup at the same time however it is hard to accomplish since one of the them has to be in the game because who plays second if both are not playing. So at least one of them shouldn’t be in the lineup until they figure things out at the plate.

Friday night Yankee starter Masahiro Tanaka shut out the Mariners on three hits going eight innings. The Mariners have never figured him out now that he is 7-0 in his career against the Mariners.  Actually Tanaka should have had only two hits charged against him because Jean Segura hit a ball that the first baseman wasn’t able to come up when the throw was thrown to him. I was surprised that an error wasn’t charged. It really didn’t make any difference. Tanaka struck out ten Mariner batters without walking one. The only threat in the game was when Zunino hit a double by the third baseman but no one was able to bring him home.

Now Felix Hernandez goes against the Yankees Saturday night. The Yankees will have Lance Lynn starting for them. He hasn’t had a good season pitching with a record of 8-10 with an era of 5.10. This will be his seventh start for the Yankees after being traded by the Minnesota Twins. His stats with the Yankees are about the same as with the Twins. Since Felix has been struggling this season though doing better after coming back into the starting rotation after relieving James Paxton getting hit in the forearm and had to go on the disabled list this game could go either way though important for the Mariners to take this game.

The Yankees will likely have another large group of fans at the game. Didn’t realize it that much until had the home run hit in the second inning and they exploded. It will be important that the Mariners take the lead early so the Yankees can’t feed off the fans that are at the game. Interesting to think the Mariners didn’t do well against Toronto or the Dodgers when they had larger group of fans than the Mariners. I wonder if the players are intimidated by these fans. Also the way the Mariners have been playing for the last couple months it is hard to remember that they are still fifteen games above five hundred with seventy-eight wins. Anyway let’s hope the Mariners can win the final two games of this series.