Castillo Wins His First Of Season

Most of us figure Luis Castillo would

win his first game of 2024 before this.

Saturday evening in what was supposed

to be the second game in Denver instead

the first one of the series instead.

M The game did have some snow flurries

however they wanted to get the game in.

Luis had his four seam fastball working

as he threw about 65% of his pitches

with it.

Luis was able to go seven innings with

a comfortable lead. He gave up two

hits while walking one and striking.out

nine. The batters that were not a walk, 

two hits and nine hits were five groundouts

and five fly outs to even it. We hope to

see more of this version of Luis the rest

of the season. He nows is 1-4.

The final score was Mariners winning

7-0. The Mariners scored single runs

in the second, third, fourth innings then

had four in the fifth.

The Mariners first run in the second

was on a Cal Raleigh home run. The

only home run of the game which is

a good sign. The Mariners were back

to their basics. Cal Raleigh had four 

hits on the night and drove in another 

one as well as scoring a second run.

The great thing in this game was Julio

had four hits as well. He scored a run

on one of Cal's hits and drove in two

runs. He had two stolen bases. We hope

this is the beginning of the real Julio.

Ty France had two hits and scored a

run. It was nice to see him get some

hits after a short slump.

Jonatan Clase had two runs batted in

the fifth inning. The Mariners are still

undefeated with Clase in the lineup.

He certainly hss helped the Mariners

if mainly in attitude.

On Sunday the Mariners will play a 

doubleheader in Denver. The first

game will start a little earlier. George

Kirby will start the first game followed

by Emerson Hancock. See they can 

keep the game close of not keeping

the Rockies from scoring many.

The Mariners are now 10-10 on

the season. We hope to see success

this coming week. After Sunday the

Mariners face the Rangers in Texas

Tuesday thru Thursday. We will likely

see Logan Gilbert, Bryce Miller and

Castillo pitch before coming back

home. We hope to see a solid winning

record when returning to Seattle. 

Go M's.