It was the sixth walk-off win for the Mariners this season, tied for most in franchise history (1986).
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PRIZE POSITION: Barney was playing left field for the first time in the majors against the Diamondbacks, but he had fond memories of his one prolonged experience at that position as a member of the under-21 United States team that won the 2006 world championship in Cuba.
The six-time All-Star is batting. He looked as fresh in his last inning as he did in his first.
Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista will make three rehab appearances for the Bisons this weekend.
Before the game, Gibbons admitted that while the overall plan makes flawless sense, it isn’t as easy to believe it as it was coming out of spring training with the whole season ahead of him.
“He’s a great athlete”, Gibbons said. “They can narrow their pitch selection”.
“A guy might have a huge jump in innings and it might not cause a problem that year, but then down the road it might result in an injury”. This set up runners on second and third for Kevin Pillar, who drove in Russell Martin for the fifth run of the game. “It’s really hard to know what’s the right thing to do”. The right-hander has not lost since April 22, in the fourth of his 19 starts.
Marcus Stroman had his best outing of the season, pitching eight innings of one-run ball while striking out six and not issuing a single walk.
The plan against Patrick Corbin today seemed pretty clear: Load the lineup with right-handed hitters, and be aggressive early in the count against the homer prone lefty.
The Boston Red Sox were 11-7 winners over the San Francisco Giants, the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-5, as the Miami Marlins went down to the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 and the Washington Nationals ran out 8-1 winners over the Los Angeles Dodgers. He stole second, went to third on a groundball out and scored on another ground ball out.
And the third-inning blast off Godley?
Zach Godley, once again called up from Reno, kept the Blue Jays in check through the first two and two thirds innings.
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Josh Donaldson wasted no time putting the Blue Jays on the board. Toronto scored another run in the second inning on a double by Devon Travis, an error from Jean Segura, and a sacrifice fly from Darwin Barney – And it would have been an even bigger inning if Junior Lake didn’t get thrown out at third after hitting a leadoff double. Encarnacion’s soaring shot off Daniel Hudson, projected at 471 feet by Statcast, landed far down the walkway beyond the left field seats in the eighth.
