Coming up on Wednesday afternoon, we’ve got a matinee game three between the Seattle Mariners and the Texas Rangers headed our way from Globe Life Park. Iwakuma allowed two runs on six hits in five innings. They will look to help their team win the first series of 2016. “Only way you can go is up”. In the finale, all five Seattle batters that faced closer Shawn Tolleson in the ninth got hits and scored.
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The Rangers took the lead when shortstop Ketel Marte booted a ground ball by Adrian Beltre. Kyle Seager is 10 for 27 with two homers and two doubles against Lewis, Cano is 7 for 18 and Franklin Gutierrez is 6 for 16 with two home runs.
Hernandez fell to 6-1 in nine opening day starts.
Seattle second baseman Robinson Cano had two home runs and four RBIs, including a two-run blast in the Mariners’ decisive five-run ninth inning, in a 9-5 victory over the Texas Rangers on Wednesday. “I knew they were playing back”. “I was missing a lot of pitches”. “I felt like we continued to grind at-bats out against a premier pitcher”. Tolleson allowed five hits, including a run-scoring double by Martin and a two-run homer by Cano that gave Seattle a 9-5 lead. It was the second time in Rangers history they won with less than two hits (July 27, 1993 at Kansas City). Up walked Robinson Cano, who was if you remember, “the worst player” who “couldn’t get a hit when it mattered”, and was also by all external accounts singularly responsible for torpedoing what was going to be the Mariners’ best season in 14 years with an albatross of a contract which was ready to sink an entire franchise and its foolish monied powers, why are we even watching, let’s all jump in the river, etc.
Seattle ace Felix Hernandez didn’t allow a hit until the fifth inning. “Especially in that game and be able to win the series”. But the former Gold Glove victor misplayed it and appeared to be thinking about tagging out Odor, who was running toward him. The Rangers tied the score moments later when Prince Fielder blooped a single – their lone hit – into shallow left field to score Andrus.
“That’s an incredible play because that’s a play Rougie had some difficulty with a year ago”, Rangers manager Jeff Bannister said. “He looked at me and missed the ball”.
Orioles 4, Twins 2: Chris Davis homered to back an effective pitching performance by Yovani Gallardo in his debut, and Baltimore beat Minnesota on a chilly day at Camden Yards.
In his big league debut the previous day, the 33-year-old South Korean struck out in a pinch-hit appearance. Nobody was hit, though. Mariners starter Wade Miley retired 11 consecutive batters between the second and fifth inning.
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After a rather disappointing start to last season, hitting just. He drew a bases-loaded walk in the seventh to get Seattle within a run before Nelson Cruz had an inning-ending flyball to Ian Desmond. He had 21 homers last season, and his fourth didn’t come until his 71st game on June 26. As a getaway game against their first left-handed combatant of the young season, we’ll likely see guys like Ryan Rua and Justin Ruggiano get in on the action.
