Mariners Five-Game Win Streak Ends

 Colorado 5 Seattle 2

The Seattle Mariners five game winning streak
ended Wednesday afternoon. One good question
will they be able to get back on winning track
when they have three-game series in Chicago
or go back to being inconsistent. We will see
won't we.

Justus Sheffield pitched another poor game. I 

expect he was the last starter who lost before

this winning streak. Sheffield hasn't figured 

things out lately and isn't pitching anything

close to last year. The question is whether 

he will recover or not. Sheffield has been

working on the sidelines between starts

the thing is can he get back to where he

was at the very least. If not what will his

future look like in Seattle. Is he a starter

or have to go into the bullpen? We will

see I guess.

Mariners offense continues to struggle.

The team only had four hits in the game.

JP Crawford hitting well this month got

the first hit of the game in the sixth inning.

Taylor Trammell hit a home run to put the 

Mariners within two at 3-1 in the seventh

inning. 

Pitcher of the game: German Marquez 

went eight innings for the Rockies 

giving up two hits on the day including

the home run by Trammell.

The 9th inning Crawford hit a double with

one out. He went to third because the 

Rockies had a shift on with Kyle Seager

on base after Mitch Haniger went out.

Seager got the fourth hit by bunting down

third base since the pitcher was the only

one had a change to reach it and Crawford 

scored. 

The game did become interesting because 

Ty France was walked meaning Jake Bauers

was the tying run coming to the plate, however,

he ended the game. 

Yusei Kikuchi will start Friday's game against

the White Sox in Chicago. For the Mariners

to have success in the series Kikuchi will 

have to pitch the way he has been and the

offense to come alive. 

I am sure throughout the remainder of the

season things will only change if the 

Mariners can have more consistency on

the offense. The team can't depend on the

pitchers to do outstanding job to just 

win and the offense can't just what they 

did recently by scoring late in the games.

The team is bad state when Mitch Haniger

and Ty France are not hitting. I am not

mentioning Crawford because he has been

hitting all along or at least the last couple

months anyway. Whatever they get out of

Kyle Seager is a bonus. The series against

Tampa Bay and Rockies they got last 

innings heroics but can't expect that to

continue. The bottom of the batting order

needs to start stepping up on a regular

basis.  Go M's.