Yankees Shut Out Mariners

The Seattle Mariners continue having trouble with the New York Yankees Tuesday night 7-0. The Mariners were only able to get four hits off of Masahiro Tanaka. The Yankees though were able to get to Yusei Kikuchi early with Aaron Judge hitting a two-run homer in the first inning. Kikuchi hadn’t pitched for nine days since his last start where he shut out the Blue Jays in Toronto 7-0 on two hits.

Kikuchi lasted only four innings total in this game. He gave up a three-run homer to Brett Gardner in the third inning. It would have been a tough time for the Mariners to come back in this one.

JP Crawford, Omar Narvaez, Kyle Seager, and Tim Lopes were the four players getting the four hits off of Tanaka. Reggie McClain came in for Kikuchi. He went three innings giving up three hits, a run in the fifth inning and striking out four. McClain has done a good job coming out of the bullpen since being promoted from Tacoma. The Yankees scored their final run in the ninth inning.

The Yankees and the Mariners play a day game before the Mariners go to Texas to play the Rangers over the next four games.  James Paxton back in Seattle for the first time since being traded to the Yankees will start for them while Justus Sheffield who was part of the trade for Paxton goes for the Mariners. This will be his second start since being recalled last week. Paxton is 10-6 with an ERA of 4.43 on the season, however, he is 5-0 for the month of August. The Mariners will try to avoid the sweep of the series and the season as well.

The news came out on Tuesday Keon Broxton was suspended two for throwing his glove at the home plate umpire where he was tossed out of the game. Sounded like he was going to appeal his suspension but he didn’t play on Tuesday night. We will see whether he is in Wednesday’s game or not.

The Mariners are now 56-77 with 29 games remaining. How many more games you think they will win?  Can they make it to 70 wins on the season? Go M’s.