Flexen Looks Good

In his previous performance Chris Flexen had
probably his worst outing of the season. Thursday
against the Texas Rangers in the opening game
of the four game series Flexen had his best night
of his career.

Flexen ended up going seven innings only giving

up three hits, no runs, walked one and striking out

six. I am sure we will see Flexen continue going 

up and down in his outings for a while but who

knows he could be a solid third pitcher in the rotation.

Speaking of pitching word is out Marco Gonzales 

may start on June 1 against the Oakland A's coming

off the injured list. Most likely he will only pitch 

three or four innings in his first outing depending

on his pitch count. It will be nice to see the Mariners

back to a full six-man rotation since they decided

not to go with a five-man rotation while he has 

been out..

There is word out Jake Fraley who is on rehab 

assignment for Tacoma should be activated during

this current home stand. Fraley looks to be the

fourth outfielder playing when Haniger needs a

day off and goes to dh or the same goes for Kyle

Lewis and Jarred Kelenic. Most likely Lewis 

would dh when he isn't in centerfield while 

Kelenic have the whole game off depending

on how he is doing at the plate at the particular

time. He could be in the dh role as well.

Ty France continues to do well at the plate 

having two more hits on Wednesday while

scoring one of the three runs in the seventh

inning.  Tom Murphy and Jacob Nottingham

hit back to back home runs in the third inning

ending a 0-0 tie then France had a single in

the seventh then Tom Murphy who was 2-2

for the day plus a walk got on base. After a

walk to Nottingham Jack Mayfield recently

called up hit a double to score France and

Murphy. With two outs Mitch Haniger got

a hit to score Nottingham.  Final score was

Seattle 5 Texas 0.

It was really nice to see the bottom of  the

batting order contribute to  winning of the

game. Six thru nine scored all five runs and

drove in four. A good game by those guys.

Evan White is working out however not

sure on his return.

Justus Sheffield starts Friday night. It will

be nice if he can have a similar outing to

Flexen. Go M's.