Tommy Milone Rough Night

Left-handed starter Tommy Milone had a rough night for the Mariners on Tuesday night leading to a Texas Rangers win 7-2.

Milone gave up a home run to lead-off hitter and former Mariner Sin-So Choo in the first inning. The Mariners did tie the score in the bottom of the first with Mallex Smith leading off with a hit followed by another hit by JP Crawford. It was hard for the Mariners to get many hits after that. In fact, they only had seven hits total in the game.

The Rangers were able to tack on more runs in the second and third inning off of Milone. The Rangers scored two in the second and three in the third inning. They didn’t score again until the eighth inning when Rougned Odor hit his second home run of the game. In all Odor had three hits in the game. Until this series Odor has been struggling at the plate outside of hitting home runs. The two home runs Tuesday gives him 17 on the season. He is now batting .203 while spending the season under .200.

Tommy Milone went six innings for the Mariners giving up nine hits, six runs, no walks, five strikeouts, and three home runs. As you can see the home runs were the big factor.

Matt Magill made his first appearance for the Mariners after being acquired from the Minnesota Twins recently. Magill pitched the last two innings for the Mariners giving up one hit the home run to Odor.

Domingo Santana had to leave the game in the second inning because of a sore right elbow. We will find out Wednesday how well he will be and how long he will be out. Earlier in the day, Dee Gordon went on the 10-day injured list with a left quad occurring in Monday’s game during attempted pickoff at first base. According to manager Scott Servais, he won’t be back for a matter of weeks not just days. So the likelihood Gordon is traded before next week’s deadline is slim to none.

The Mariners promoted infielder Tim Lopes from Tacoma. When he appears in a game it will be his major league debut. There is a good chance he will be in the game on Wednesday. The Mariners had Austin Nola at second base on Tuesday after playing mostly at first base though he can catch as well. Nola has been hitting well although he didn’t get any hits on Tuesday.

If Santana is out for several days it will be an interesting lineup for sure. Mallex Smith will be the only true outfielder in the lineup. The Mariners have to put Santana on the injured list to this means Jake Fraley likely will be brought up to Seattle from Tacoma.

The question now will Jerry Dipoto be able to pull off any trades by next Wednesday the end of the trading deadline. Stay tuned. Go M’s.