Mariners Win Opening Game of Road Trip

 Mariners 3 Rangers 1

The offense continues to struggle however
we should expect it the rest of the season.
The importance is to continue to win the
close games which they are doing at this
point.

Tyler Anderson has shown good value in

the trade from the Pirates at the trading

deadline. Anderson was able to go six

innings giving up one run. Can't ask for

better than that. The three primary bullpen

relievers in Steckenrider, Castillo, and

Sewald were able to do their jobs. Each

pitched an inning giving up a hit but 

nothing to keep them from winning.

Luis Torrens seem to be out of his slump

right now. He hit a home run in the top

of the 9th inning to keep a little cushion

there for the Mariners. Cal Raleigh had

a good night able to get on base twice

and scoring two runs on sacrifice flies.

Mitch Haniger and Ty France each had

the sacrifice flies. Neither had a hit

in the game but did the fundamentals 

to help win the game.

We have learned over the season the

Mariners are not going to score many

runs but do find a way to win those 

close games with solid pitching and

timely hitting. This is especially true

late in games. This is who the Mariners

are. We can hope they can find a way

to get to bolster the offense a little bit.

The importance they are winning these

close games. It would be frustrating if

we saw them losing these games instead.

Marco Gonzales will be going Wednesday

night for the Mariners. His last outing 

Marco pitched a complete game at home.

It will be nice if he can get another good

performance. I don't think we could expect

a complete game but he can do like Anderson

it will go a long ways for sure. Chris Flexen

will be going on Thursday afternoon so we

get what is normal for Gonzales and Flexen

this will be a good series. Go M's.