Another Loss Another Sweep

Right now losses continue for the Mariners. Be really interesting to see whether they will have some wins coming up the rest of July or not. Thursday is an off-day then the action continues on Friday with a three-game series against Los Angeles Angels at home.

This month the Mariners are having a lot of off days. Not only two this week they have two more next week as well. We wonder if that is a good thing or not. So far they haven’t won a game since the all-star break so may not be good at all. It allows the players to think too much, at least that is how I see it any.

Wednesday the Mariners lost to the Oakland A’s for another two-game sweep. The final was Oakland 10 Seattle 2.

The Mariners scored their two runs in the second inning when Dylan Moore hit a triple driving in Tim Beckham followed by Dee Gordon driving in Moore.  The A’s scored two runs in the bottom of the second when Jurickson Profar hit his first of two-run home runs off of opener Erik Swanson.

Erik Swanson was called up on Tuesday to be the opener on Wednesday. I am not sure why they allowed Swanson to go two innings. It didn’t help Tommy Milone who came in the third inning. He pitched four and one-third innings giving up five runs on five hits. Of the five hits, three of them were home runs. Next time go back to one inning for the opener.

What was really interesting Milone was warming up in the second inning then was sat down after Swanson gave up the home run? He had to get up again to warm up for the third inning. I hope they learned to enter him at the beginning of the second inning.

Cody Gearrin came in for Milone to finish off the seventh inning. He did fine, however, Matt Festa gave up three runs in the eighth inning including the Profar home run.

I am sure manager Scott Servais is learning the bullpen for the Mariners isn’t very good. The Mariners will need to look to have a new one next year. I am sure there will be other changes next year as well but the bullpen will have to be the main one. I will get back to that another time. Go M’s.