You could nearly feel this coming Saturday afternoon after the Seattle Mariners bungled away a gift-wrapped opportunity to secure a walk-off victory over the Texas Rangers in the 10th inning. The over is 15-3-3 in Seattle’s last 21 home games and is 6-2-1 in their last 9 games as a favorite while the Mariners are 3-8 in their last 11 Sunday games.
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Seattle Mariners shortstop Ketel Marte, center, reacts after…
In Pittsburgh, pinch hitter Pedro Alvarez lined a bases-loaded single over a five-man infield in the 10th. Texas led 3-1. Singles by Elvis Andrus and Rougned Odor added another run and loaded the bases with no outs.
Texas scored twice in the first on Bobby Wilson’s two-out, two-run double. He is 2-1 with a 2.60 ERA in six career appearances against Seattle.
The left-hander has a 5.93 ERA in two outings with the Rangers since his July 31 trade from Philadelphia.
The Rangers weren’t done, either.
In two rehab starts, Holland has given up four runs and nine baserunners in 3 2/3 innings.
Mike Zunino failed to execute a sacrifice before swinging through a 95 miles per hour fastball from Tolleson (4-2) that was up in the zone on a 1-2 count.
Seattle Mariners Robinson Cano (22) and Nelson Cruz share congratulations after the Mariners defeate … The move worked, as Tolleson struck out Jesus Montero to end the inning.
Seattle Mariners’ Robinson Cano, right, smiles as he scores on his home run as Texas Rangers catcher Bobby Wilson waits during the sixth inning of a baseball game Friday, August 7, 2015, in Seattle. He gave up three runs on four walks and five hits while throwing 82 pitches.
Seattle starter Mike Montgomery got out of the inning but was replaced by David Rollins in the fifth.
Mike Montgomery’s recent struggles on the mound have translated to losses for the Seattle Mariners, with the M’s dropping his past five starts. He gained a no-decision when Sam Dyson inherited a 3-3 game in the seventh. Ryan Strausborger walked, and scored on a double from Prince Fielder. Fielder went to third on Beltre’s soft grounder to second.
Right fielder Josh Hamilton’s RBI single in the 11th drove in the go-ahead run and opened the floodgates as the Rangers got back on the winning track.
Nelson Cruz led off with a double – his eighth straight game with an extra-base hit. His career best is a 19-game stretch in 2010 while playing for Texas.
The Rangers had taken a brief lead in the third, as Gimenez scored on an infield single from DeShields. Fielder’s homer was the eighth hit of the frame for the Rangers and marked the third time this year the Mariners have given up eight runs in an inning.
But with Seager out, there’s no way Bannister was letting Cruz or Cano beat him.
Seattle Mariners shortstop Brad Miller throws over the Texas…
Both starting pitchers were effective over the first three innings but fell apart in the fourth. Cano’s throw from behind second base was too late to get DeShields at first.
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In fact, Gimenez said that the energy that carried over from escaping such a high stress situations is what propelled the team into the hard-hitting eleventh inning that they would have. The Rangers send Colby Lewis to the hill to oppose the Mariners for the second time in 2015. He was still at first with two out when picked off by Sucre. The Mariners were challenge the call however, and it would be overturned.
