The Seattle Mariners continue their playoff push with game 2 of their 3-game series versus the Tigers at Safeco Field tonight. With those two power arms closing out games, the Mariners might be hard to beat with a lead. Seattle RHP Arquimedes Caminero, acquired from the Pirates on Saturday, was added to the active roster Monday. “A testament you don’t have to throw 93, 95 to get them out in this league if you execute and make pitches”.
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The victory also pulled the Mariners to within 2 1/2 games of Detroit and Boston for the American League’s final wild-card berth.
The Mariners opened the scoring after Nelson Cruz’s leadoff double in the second inning. Even better news, the schedule softens for Seattle after this current series with the Tigers. With the win, Iwakuma now has W-L record of 13-7 on the season and an ERA of 3.79 in 144.2 innings pitched so far this season.
He retired 12 of the final 13 batters he faced against a Tigers team that knocked him around for five runs in 42/3 innings in late June.
“I certainly think Taijuan Walker is a part of our future, a big part of it”, Servais said. “I didn’t want to stop the streak”. Iwakuma is 12-3 in his last 15 starts. In six appearances at Triple-A Toledo this year, Ferrell has allowed six earned runs on 16 hits in 7 1/3 innings.
“I feel like my misses were in the right spots”.
Iwakuma has been steady and reliable this season, especially lately. “I think its just one inning and after that it felt great”.
Tyler Duffey pitched six innings of one-run ball, leading Minnesota to a win over Houston at Target Field. Mike Zunino followed with a broken-bat single to left that scored Seager for a 2-0 lead. Nori Aoki doubled into the right-center gap and scored on Guillermo Heredia’s soft single to right field.
Iwakuma won his eighth straight start at home, surpassing Felix Hernandez’s club record. The 32-year-old from Louisiana, who has made only eight major-league starts since the 2013 campaign, has yielded three runs in each of his last three appearances – including a three-inning relief stint at Toronto in which he registered his first career save despite serving up two homers.
LHP Daniel Norris is due to start Tuesday at Seattle, which would be his first start since July 4.
Today will be LeBlanc’s first time facing the Tigers in his career, but he saw plenty of Justin Upton while both resided in the NL West. Upton struggled, going 2-for-23 with four walks, but only struck out five times against the lefty. Ariel Miranda will take his spot in Seattle’s rotation.
SEATTLE: The Mariners are 4-0 in LeBlanc’s lsat five starts overall and are a flawless 4-0 in his last four home starts.
The Mariners (58-53) have clawed their way back into the wild-card race, doing most of the makeup work while Walker was on the disabled list nursing a sore foot. 2 with a strained oblique.
Wade LeBlanc (1-0, 4.31 ERA) goes to the mound for Seattle.
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