Mariners Season Continues The Same Way

The Seattle Mariners lost Sunday’s game 9-3. So the Los Angeles Angels took the series over the weekend and the season.

The Mariners will not play the Angels again this year which is odd in itself since the season still has two months remaining. The Angels took ten of the nineteen games. Just think the Mariners could have won the series if just one game would have been different. Also, if they didn’t give up so many home runs especially to Mike Trout.

Sunday’s game the Angels were leading 1-0 going into the fourth inning. The Angels scored for runs all with two outs. So similar we see to Saturday night when the Angels won in the 9^th inning. Albert Pujols had a single then Brian Goodwin hits a home run off of Yusei Kikuchi. The Angels scored a couple more runs that could have been prevented as well.

I have to say getting tired of a team where the pitchers are giving up too many home runs and the fielders can’t get to balls. This is happening over and over again.

I wonder how much the shifting is hurting the position players getting to balls they should get to.  It is possible they wouldn’t get to them anyway but something I do think about.

When it comes to playing this game the all-star break didn’t do any good for this team for sure.  I don’t want to be over critical but the same things are happening over and over again as I stated earlier.

Let’s stop shifting all together to see how much better the fielding will be. Another thing can we get pitchers who won’t throw home run balls so often. The Mariners are on a steak where there has been a home run in every game. It would be awesome if the Mariners had home runs in almost every game but actually the opposition has had many of the home runs. 

This series against the Angels they had five home runs while two by the Mariners. The Mariners home runs were both by Daniel Vogelbach in game one when Mike Leake almost pitched a perfect game. Four of the home runs by the Angels were in Sunday’s game. The lone home run on Saturday was by Mike Trout in the 9^th inning making a big difference in the game after fielding miscue by Tim Beckham.

The pitching coaches (they have more than one by the way though only one has the title) need to seat down with the pitchers on how not to throw home run pitches.  The problem isn’t just this season it has been going on for several years. I know the ball is juiced this year so more home runs are being hit by record numbers but the problem is location as much as the ball. Stop making mistakes were throwing the ball especially to guys named Pujols and Trout. 

Anyway I will try not to mention this again.

Now the Mariners take on the Texas Rangers for three games before facing the Detroit Tigers next weekend at home. It will follow by going to Texas to take on the Rangers for two and the Houston Astros for three before returning to Seattle. Go M’s.