Mariners Lose Tuesday on to Chicago

After winning the two opening games

the  Mariners  now have lost the last two. 

Tuesday Chris Flexen  gave up one run

in the first inning then three  more in the 

5th inning. Misiewicz gave up a run in

two-thirds of an inning. Romo, Swanson 

and Munoz didn't give up any runs over

three innings.  Unfortunately the Mariners 

were shutout getting   only  two hits by

Suarez and Crawford. We hope the bats

 can come alive in  Chicago.

The  Mariners  are tied for second place 

with Oakland A's. Matt Brash will make

his major league debut today against 

the White Sox. Brash pitches like he did

in spring training then the Mariners will 

have a good  chance to  win. He only 

gave up one run in 18 innings. Go M's 

Flexen On Monday

The Seattle Mariners to see they

can win the four game series 

before heading to Chicago.

Chris Flexen will take the mound.

He pitches anything like last season

then the Mariners have a good shot.

It will be good if Flexen can go six

innings. The bullpen has all been 

used but don't want to used them 

too much this early on the season.

The Mariners need the bats to come

alive early on in the game. Flexen will 

be able to relax that way.  The top of the batting order get several hits. Adam Frazier had a couple hits on Sunday so getting on as the leadoff 

batter would be good. Right now Mitch

Haniger is hot so getting the batters 

ahead of him allow at least a couple runs.

Bad Out For Gonzales

Marco Gonzales didn't go well

in his first outing like Ray and

Gilbert. Reminds of last season

when he got off to a terrible 

start and missed a month. 

Hopefully not the same this time

around.

Gonzales went only two innings

giving up six runs. This meant 

more for the bullpen. Matt Festa 

who missed some time for the Mariners came in and gave up

two runs and so did Yohan Ramirez.

In between those two Eriq Swanson and Justus Sheffield gave up no 

runs in.  The final score was Twins

10 Mariners 4.

Mitch Haniger hit a three run homer in the third along with additional one

to make an interesting game and a

chance temporarily for the Mariners 

to win. Haniger and Adam Frazier

each had two hits in the game.

Luis Torrens caught making the 

first time for the Mariners in 

history to have three different

catchers to start the first three

games in a season. I expect this

won't happen often during the

season. We should see Raleigh

in the final game against the 

Twins. Might see Murphy behind

the plate in Bash first start in

Chicago or go with Raleigh.

Home opener either one likely

instead of Torrens for Gonzales.

Expect other changes in Monday's

game. Julio didnt get a hit Sunday

so might dh instead. The batting

order still a work in progress.

Mariners Take Game 2

The Mariners  had another  tight game 

Saturday  afternoon  in Minnesota 

beating  the Twins 4-3.

Logan Gilbert  pitched a good  game

going five innings  only giving up one

run on three hits while walking  one 

and striking  out  seven. Leaving the 

game the Mariners  were up by one

2-1. Tom Murphy  hit a home run in 

the 5th. The relievers  did a good job

until the 8th inning when Andrés Munoz 

gave up a two run homer putting the  

Twins up by one.

The Mariners  did what they did a lot 

last season coming back to win in the 

top of  the  9th. Julio Rodriguez led off 

with his first major league hit with a

double to left centerfield. Adam Frazier 

with his first hit a double as well drove

in Julio. The Mariners were fired up tying

the game. Ty France  hit in Frazier to take

the lead. France was the hitter of the game

having three hits.

Diego Castillo pitched the 9th inning throwing 

only sliders to get all three outs to record the

save. According to Servais Castillo had a great 

spring.  

Sunday  Marco Gonzales starts and see the 

Mariners  win the series. It could be another

tight game. The importance is to win. Go M's. 

Mariners Wins Season Opener

The Seattle  Mariners  beat Minnesota Twins

2-1  in the first game of the season. 

There is not a lot to  take from the first game

except Robbie  Ray pitched well  and will  win 

a lot of games that way. Ray threw 70 percent

fast balls,however,  went to  his breaking

pitches when needed.

Cal Raleigh   caught the game and did a

great job behind the plate.  He blocked 

a lot of pitches in the ground  which is

a good  thing. He looked like he will be 

catching a lot when right handers are

pitching for the other team.. Mike

Blowers said on the  post game show 

on the radio Raleigh  got a hit though only

roller he was able to get it out of the way 

and relax. 

Saturday  Sunny Gray will  start for the 

Twins another right hander so likely 

will see Raleigh behind the plate. Actually 

the Mariners  will  face four righthanders

in the series so should see Murphy in at

least one game. We will  see who it might

be against.

Logan Gilbert  will face the Twins on

Saturday  followed by Marco Gonzales

on Sunday. Chris Flexen will finish the

series on Monday.  The Mariners  will 

face the  White Sox for three games

before heading home for the home

opener next Friday. 

Jarred Kelenic and Julio Rodriguez 

 neither had a hit in the games Julio 

said he will be  alright. Jesse Winker 

was the only hitter with two hits and

he made the final out of the game

catching the ball at the fence like

it was no big deal.

The Mariners  did leave a lot of runners 

on base,  however,  we should not see

a lot of  this season this year. The Mariners 

should  see a different lineup on Saturday 

as Manager Scott Servais  mentioned a

couple days ago.  Though he wasn't in

Friday's lineup  we should  see Abraham 

Toro in the lineup somewhere Saturday 

since he was the hottest hitter in spring

training and don't want him to  go cold. Go M's. 

Opening Day For Mariners and Twins.

It finally happened today is 

opening day. Expected  to be

sunshine in Minneapolis after

snow on Thursday postponing

the game.

Robbie Ray will go for the Mariners

facing rookie Joe Ryan. Ryan is a

right hander so I wonder if Cal Raleigh

will start instead of Tom Murphy.

I am sure you now I feel on the issue.

The rest of the lineup should be the 

same with Ty France at first, Adam 

Frazier second base, JP Crawford at

short, and Eugenio Suarez at third.

Jarred Kelenic in left, Julio Rodriguez

in center and Mitch Haniger in right.

Jesse Winker expected to be the dh.

Scott Servais says game two will look

different.

News out JP Crawford signing a new

deal 5 years for $51 million. Be 

around for several more years.

Also, injury report from the Rainier's

Taylor Trammel was hurt. Don't know

his status. Keep you up to date.

Go M's.

Rainier Baseball and More

Since the Seattle Mariners  are  not

playing season opener  until Friday

we will  look at the Tacoma Rainiers

and other sports. 

We will look to see how the Mariners 

minor leaguers are doing g throughout 

the season.  The Rainiers  have played 

two games so far against Salt Lake at

home. They won the opener Tuesday 

4-2 and lost Wednesday 9-5.

Taylor Trammell a familiar face to

Mariner fans starting last season 

for the Mariners  hit a double in the

opener while getting  his first home

run of the season  Wednesday night. 

Like last season all series are six games.

They will have  Monday's off for traveling.

In the opener  Josh Morgan Rainiers 

catcher had his first career home run.

Darren McCaughan who pitched a

couple times late last season for the

Mariners was the Rainiers  starter. He

pitched five and two-thirds innings 

giving up the two runs on seven hits.

Darren walked two while striking out

nine. Not bad for first start of season. 

The rest of the minor league teams of

the Mariners start their season on Friday.

Football wise Seahawks general manager 

John Schneider says they won't trade star

receiver DK Metcalf.  Of course,  we have 

heard that one before.  We will see what

may happen before the NFL draft on April 

28.

The Washington Huskies have snatched a

couple players in the transfer portal. A 

Wide receiver/running back Will Nixon from

Nebraska.  It is important a running back 

in the new Huskies system can catch the 

ball too. Be interesting to see how much 

Nixon will play. The other is running back

Wayne Taulapapa from Virginia. Spring 

camp the Huskies are limited with Richard

Newton still out with injury and Cameron 

Davis as well Both expected high on the

running back  depth chart. Go Dawgs!