Seattle’s Nelson Cruz is on a tear as he attempts to record his fourth straight multi-hit performance when the Mariners host the Arizona Diamondbacks in Monday’s opener of a three-game series.
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Manager Lloyd McClendon had to get creative with his paper-thin bullpen, turning to struggling veteran Fernando Rodney and starter J.A. Happ – two days after his last start – in the ninth.
Seattle Mariners’ Mike Zunino is embraced in the dugout after his home run against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the third inning of a baseball game, Tuesday, July 28, 2015, in Seattle.
Lamb, a Seattle native who played collegiately at Washington, left 50 tickets for family and estimated he had 90 total supporters in the stands at Safeco Field to see his first professional game at home. Seattle’s offense got going in the 5 inning, when Mark Trumbo doubled to deep right center. I was pulling my slider for the most part, maybe trying to make it too good. “It slowed down and I was able to really enjoy the moment and that was awesome”.
Bishop Blanchet High School product Jake Lamb returned to his hometown and delivered the fatal blow with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the top of the 10 inning.
“That was cool that it worked out like that”, Lamb said.
Montgomery was coming off a rough outing at Detroit, when he allowed eight runs in 22/3 innings, and he gave up homers in each of the first two innings in falling into a 3-0 hole. Cano’s two-out homer in the sixth pulled the Mariners to within 3-2. The Mariners, after hitting into double plays in the first and fourth innings, broke through in the fifth after Trumbo’s leadoff double into the right-center gap. “He’s starting to swing the bat the way we think he’s capable of swinging and we need that production at the bottom half of the order”.
Mariners ninth. D.Hudson pitching.
Instead, the opportunity for a few much-needed traction slipped away, and the Mariners hit the 100-game mark at 46-54.
“Their guy threw the ball well and kept us off-balance, and they came up with big hits when they needed to”, Garza said. Smith’s wild pitch, Goldschmidt to second.
Arizona jumped Iwakuma for that early run after Pollock’s one-out single in the first inning. Inciarte, the Diamondbacks’ right fielder, went 2-for-5 with a solo home run and an RBI single in the eighth.
Ray’s only mistake was Robinson Cano’s 11th homer, a solo shot in the sixth.
The Mariners will host the Diamondbacks tonight at 10:10PM ET and in this matchup, Seattle has been profitable for bettors. Ramirez was originally signed by Seattle and traded to Philadelphia in 2009.
Milwaukee’s Gerardo Parra, a leading candidate to be traded before Friday’s deadline, singled in the third to extend his hitting streak to 10 games. He will report to Triple-A Tacoma. The lead climbed to 2-0 when Castillo, the former 15-day Mariner, turned on an 0-1 fastball with one out in the second inning. Montgomery allowed five hits and struck out five, but walked four.
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Cody Reed gave up seven hits and seven runs in 1 2/3 innings for the Hops (22-17), who had only five hits.
