The Seattle Mariners Wednesday night beat the Milwaukee
Brewers in a tight game 4-2. Mallex Smith led the game off with a triple
followed with JP Crawford’s double. Both players scored in the first inning.
His second at-bat Crawford hit a double and scored again. Crawford had three
hits in the game driving in three of the Mariners four runs. He has been hot on
fire at the plate raising his average to a season-high .318. The Mariners final
game in Milwaukee will be Thursday afternoon. I am sure the Brewers will be
glad to see Smith and Crawford both leave after this game.
The Brewers scored their two runs in the sixth inning off of
Wade LeBlanc who came into the game in the second inning. Matt Carasiti making
his second appearance on the season for the Mariners was the opener. He gave up
no runs with one walk. This is what the Mariners vision when deciding to go
with an opener though they have had trouble in the most part using one. The
Brewers two runs were on solo home runs in the sixth inning by Moustakas and
former Mariner Ben Gamel. LeBlanc went
five innings giving up five hits with the two runs, walked one and struck out
six.
Austin Adams who had an excellent game against the Brewers on
Tuesday night came in for LeBlanc pitching one inning. He walked a batter but
struck out two. Roenis Elias pitched the eighth inning giving up no hits, no
walks and struck out two. He recorded his tenth save on the season. The
Mariners have only 19 saves on the season.
The Mariners scored an important run in the top of the ninth
inning making the score 4-2. This one run made all the difference since the
Brewers would have to score two runs to tie instead of one.
Mike Leake is scheduled to start the afternoon game to see if
the Mariners can sweep. Leake will need a better performance than his last
outing where he gave up eight runs though the Mariners still beat the Baltimore
Orioles. Leake has done a fine job bouncing back over the season.
Tommy Milone is scheduled to start the opening game of the
series against the Astros in Houston on Friday night. It wouldn’t surprise me
if the Mariners go with the opener once again and Matt Carasiti will be the guy
since he did only go one inning Wednesday night.
No other news from the Mariners right now. Stay up to date
right here. Go M’s.
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