2B Robinson Cano has hit safely in 12 consecutive games at Globe Life in Arlington after going 2-for-4 with an RBI in Seattle’s 8-7 loss to Texas on Tuesday. “I wasn’t producing with my bat, but we were winning games”. It wasn’t like I had bad mechanics.
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The Rangers have won six of seven games since Gomez joined the team. The Mariners are in third place, a game further back.
That’s the problem, actually. “It got out of hand late”. “He feels better, but his grip strength is not where it needs to be yet”, manager Scott Servais said. The American League is a really good league…
“We got a couple of decent starts on this trip”. “We have enough problems today to face King Felix”. Maeda has a 2.12 ERA in three starts at the hitter-friendly park.
After Tuesday night’s 8-7 walkoff loss, Hernandez’s job was to detoxify any residual emotional hangover from the defeat with a solid outing while not having much relief help behind him.
“I’m going to try and get the fake nail put on tomorrow, throw with it, throw my bullpen and see if it’s OK”, he said.
Lucroy might want to get used to it.
INDIANS 5, TWINS 4 Francisco Lindor drove in the go-ahead run in the fifth inning and host Cleveland survived another poor start by Josh Tomlin to beat Minnesota, extending the Twins’ losing streak to 12 games.
That brought the tying run to the plate and prompted Texas to replace Diekman with Keone Kela, who struck out Nelson Cruz.
Seattle ensured it wouldn’t be shutout by Darvish in the fourth inning after the Rangers took the big lead.
“I have no idea”, Lee said.
Then in the ninth, after Beltre’s leadoff single off closer Edwin Diaz (0-3) in his second inning, Odor hit a 2-2 drive to the hill in center field for his 25th homer.
It was a shirt-soaking, hit-enduring battle for Iwakuma. The Mariners have four three in a row and seven of their last eight, and need to start winning to climb back up the AL wild-card standings. Nomar Mazara then pulled an RBI triple past first baseman Adam Lind and into the right-field corner. Mitch Moreland walked, but Carlos Gomez struck out.
Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Felix Hernandez punches his glove after giving up a grand slam to Texas Rangers’ Carlos Gomez in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016, in Arlington, Texas. His day would be done, having given up six runs on four hits with three walks and three strikeouts.
The hole was too big.
NEW YORK – Kelly Johnson’s three-run double with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning snapped a tie and lifted red-hot New York over Miami at Citi Field.
Seattle reliever Arquimedes Caminero was ejected after hitting Texas’ Elvis Andrus with a pitch in the seventh. Martin made a leaping catch and held the ball aloft as he fell to the ground. They did have other chances; they were 0-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded nine runners. Hisashi Iwakuma matched a season low by only lasting three innings.
Seattle has its largest deficit in the division since also being 10 1/2 games back after a win over Baltimore on July 1.
Looking for his first victory since August 11, Garza bounced back from a back-luck outing his last time out with his longest start of the season and held the Cardinals to use three hits with a pair of walks over seven innings of work. He faced the Rangers five times last season. A lot of people will say, ‘But what if you fail? “He teaches me little things”, Odor said.
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Hernandez threw 86 pitches, a whopping 41 in the fourth, second-highest total of his career over the first four innings of a game.
