The Cleveland Indians will attempt to hand the Seattle Mariners their third-straight loss when the two teams meet at 6:10PM ET today. Once he lost the strike zone in his third start, the Seattle Mariners were lost.
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Mariners starter Nathan Karns was rolling along with that five-run lead and a two-hit shutout when he walked Perez on a borderline full-count pitch with one out in the fifth inning. Carrasco is 1-0 with a 3.46 ERA on the season, this will be his third start of the year.
He was aided by some outstanding defense by Lindor at shortstop, who made two diving plays – one on each side of second base – to take away two base hits.
Closer Cody Allen, after working a scoreless ninth inning Thursday, came out for the 10 and committed a reliever’s cardinal sin – he walked the leadoff batter.
Walker, who threw 110 pitches, was pulled for Joel Peralta after the sixth despite his best efforts to avoid Servais in the dugout. “I guess he’s back to being 100 percent”, Servais said.
“I thought if I could get a solid connection then it would be a long hit”, said Aoki, who was 1-for-4 on the night.
Cano hit the first pitch thrown to him by Cody Allen over the wall in center field for his sixth home run of the season.
Pinch-hitter Mike Napoli tied the game with a two-run homer in the eighth off Joaquin Benoit.
“Wade just fell out of whack with his mechanics in the fourth and couldn’t get through it”, he said. “There was… I don’t even know what was in there”.
He allowed a one-out double to Cano but got Nelson Cruz to fly out and then struck out Seager to end the inning.
In New York, Kendall Graveman (1-1) tossed three-hit ball for 6⅓ innings and struck out eight for Oakland. The three pitchers worked well for him in 2015, and Tito sees little reason (thus far) to go a-changing based on some early season results. “I started thinking, which isn’t something I do very often and wasn’t a good thing”.
SHORT HOPS: The grounds crew at Progressive Field hustled their way through a quick fix of the rain-soaked mound and the batter’s box in the fourth inning with the Tribe trailing by five runs.
“It’s not necessarily a launching pad, but it’s a really nice park”, said Seager, who has the second-highest average of all-time against the Indians at.384. “You just kind of go day to day and see how guys are doing health-wise and what the matchups look like and go from there”. “I obviously do here”. The Indians hit into double plays in each of the first three innings after hitting into five in their first 10 games. The Indians have always handled the Mariners, but they lost two out of three games including Thursday’s 10-7 defeat in 10 innings.
Former Mariners C Mike Zunino, playing for their Triple A-Tacoma affiliate, was named the Pacific Coast League Player of the Week. Francona said it was a good time for Lindor to run. “The big thing for me is their coaches tell me that he’s having fun”.
In his last two starts, Anderson has allowed 10 earned runs and 18 hits in 8 1/3 innings.
Mariners: RHPs Ryan Cook and Evan Scribner, both on the disabled list with strained right lat muscles, remain on throwing programs. Chisenhall appeared in seven rehab games at Triple-A Columbus and Double-A Akron.
Mariners: RHP Taijuan Walker has a 2-0 record with a 0.64 ERA in two career outings against Cleveland.
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This is not the way the Indians wanted to prepare to play the Tigers for the first time this season.
