Solo homers from Zunino and Martin to begin the seventh inning opened up a 4-0 Seattle lead before the Brewers (52-70) finally got on the board on a Ryan Braun RBI double in the top of the eighth.
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Seattle defeated Milwaukee 8 to 2, thanks to 6 runs combined in the 7th and 8th innings and a Felix Hernandez strong start.
The Milwaukee Brewers could use a win in order to snap a six-game skid.
In Chicago, AL All-Star starter Chris Sale pitched eight scoreless innings for his first victory in 49 days, Jose Abreu homered and the White Sox topped Oakland.
Carter had stopped at second to wait for the umpire to signal it as a home run and not an out after O’Malley had sprinted and leaped into the wall.
Instead, all of that fell apart, abruptly, in the ninth inning.
“I didn’t know if he had the ball or not, ” Carter said. I was playing kind of shallow and over-ran where I wanted to go. Nuno gave up back-to-back singles, including an RBI bloop off the bat of Gennett that looked like an easy out but was misplayed by Aoki in left.
Suter had struck out 75 batters while only walking 14 in 110º innings this season while pitching to a 3.50 ERA in hitter-friendly Colorado Springs.
“You can’t walk out of this thinking ‘Oh my gosh, ‘” Seattle manager Scott Servais said. “You’ve got to give them credit, they didn’t quit”. Brent Suter will be recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs to make his major league debut and become the first southpaw to start a game for the Brewers since Tom Gorzelanny faced Pittsburgh on August 28, 2013 – a span of 474 contests.TV: 10:10 p.m. ET, FSN Wisconsin (Milwaukee), ROOT (Seattle) PITCHING MATCHUP: Brewers LH Brent Suter (NR) vs. Mariners LH Wade LeBlanc (2-0, 4.68 ERA) Suter has posted a 6-6 record and 3.50 ERA while notching a pair of saves in 26 games (15 starts) with Colorado Springs.
MINUS: Not much. Right fielder Shawn O’Malley’s misplay in the eighth inning led to two runs. We got to finish it, gotta close it out.
Hoffman (0-1), a former first-round pick who was acquired a year ago as part of the deal that sent Troy Tulowitzki to Toronto, started off well but ran into trouble the second time through against the NL Central leaders. “He didn’t come for the ball, but I felt him coming for the ball”.
SHORT HOPS: The Mariners have won eighth straight home games and matched a season-best by moving 10 games over.500 at 66-56.
The good news is, the work that Hader produced in his first two seasons at Double-A in 2015 looks somewhat similar to what he’s done so far in Triple A. In Corpus Christi, while still in the Houston Astros organization, his first year (2014) was even uglier than 2016, as he managed only a 6.30 ERA and a 1.60 WHIP with a near-career low 1.50 K/BB ratio.
Mariners: LHP James Paxton, on the 15-day DL with a bruised left elbow after being hit by a line drive, made a short rehab start Saturday at Triple-A Tacoma.
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Seattle took advantage of an error on pitcher Matt Garza during a three-run third, then the Mariners added three more in the bottom of the fourth.Smith, Cano and shortstop Ketel Marte had RBIs in the third, followed by RBIs from Smith, Cano and Nelson Cruz in the fourth.Seattle chased Garza in the process. Over the last 16 games, he is hitting.368 with five runs scored and five doubles. In his brief time at the major league level, though Flores has been more solid than good in the K/BB department (with about a 2:1 ratio) and has shown no pop to speak of.
