The Seattle Mariners can’t seem to get any traction this season.
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“You just have to get the last two hitters out of your mind”, Gibson said.
Tim Wilhelmsen worked around a leadoff double in the bottom of the inning for his second save.
“It doesn’t really hurt unless I get jammed, so I’m glad I didn’t get jammed, ” Morrison said. Perkins has now allowed at least one run in four of his six outings since the All-Star break, giving up seven runs in that span. He allowed five total runs in his first 38 appearances before the break.
Seattle second baseman Ketel Marte and third baseman Kyle Seager each walked to start the 11th off Twins right-hander Kevin Jepsen, who struck out Cruz before being lifted for left-hander Brian Duensing.
Nelson Cruz broke a 0-0 tie in the top of the ninth with his 29th home run of the season.
“I kind of had an idea they were going to do that, just because of the way Rosey was swinging and the matchup”, Suzuki said. With no more expectations, the implications associated with each individual act (a powerful punch-out or a towering home run) are severely diminished. “I got a little bit of glove on it, but just not enough to knock it down or secure it.”.
The Seattle Mariners appear to be in the mode of spoiler even though they probably hold out hope of winning the American League West. The Mariners suffered a 9th inning meltdown Saturday in a 3-2 defeat at Target Field for their 6th loss in seven contests. Until that point, Iwakuma hadn’t allowed a run to Minnesota in his first five career starts and entered the ninth with a span of 42 straight scoreless innings.
Here it was Friday night, one of those games that will haunt the Seattle Mariners in terms of showing them what could have been this disappointing season.
“It’s coming”, Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said. I thought I could have been a little more efficient, but I ran into a couple jams and tried to battle and keep throwing those pitches and getting outs. I don’t know what number of balls we pulled for outs in the present day, nevertheless it appeared vital to me. The drama all came late after Hisashi Iwakuma and Minnesota starter Mike Pelfrey matched zeroes for eight innings. He retired nine in a row after that and 16 of the final 17 men he faced in all.
There were smiles, for a change, throughout a clubhouse that sported a revamped roster with four additions in the first game after Friday’s non-waiver trade deadline.
Mariners: RHP Taijuan Walker (7-7, 5.03) looks to get back on track after going 0-1 with an 8.02 ERA over his last four starts.
LHP Charlie Furbush threw a 33-pitch bullpen session on Sunday as he attempts to return from biceps tendonitis. McClendon said Cano will be back at 2B next week sometime during the series at Colorado. Pressly has been out since July 6 with soreness in his right shoulder….
Cruz stretched his hitting streak to 12 straight games, his longest run since May 20-31, 2014. The Rockies counter with RHP Eddie Butler (3-7, 4.82). The Red Sox had already blown two leads when David Ortiz drew a two-out walk in the seventh inning and Napoli turned a one-run deficit into a 6-5 lead with a drive that landed on the ledge atop the 37-foot-high wall.
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Minnesota Twins’ Joe Mauer, left, and manager Paul Molitor, center, disagree on a strike call with home plate umpire Mike Muchlinski, right, during the first inning of a baseball game in Minneapolis, Sunday, August 2, 2015. A pair of wild pitches proved to be the undoing for Smith (1-5), who has nine saves in 11 tries and replaced Fernando Rodney two months ago in the ninth-inning role. Santana allowed eight runs – six earned – in a loss to Pittsburgh. Sunday’s start was his first against Minnesota that did not end in a victory.
