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Welcome back into Mariners Weekly. This is Anderson Hurst, your host.

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We will do a kind of weekly update on your

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Seattle baseball team, the Mariners after each week of games,

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kind of in between the first series of the week and the second series of the week, usually coming at

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the off day. Sometimes it'll be on a Wednesday, sometimes

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it'll be on a Thursday. Sometimes it'll be on a Monday.

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So this is your weekly update. And after the first

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week where Seattle went three and four, Seattle goes two

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and four in the following week, So the second week

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of the season, this is our second update. They get

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swept in San Francisco, unfortunately, a very good Giants team

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with their home opener. The first and third game where

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extremely close, came down to the last out Seattle back

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and forth extra innings. It just you had a spot

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start from Luis f Castillo, and it just it was

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hard to watch in those extra innings when you did

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well in scoring runs and kind of keeping up and

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outscoring your issues in the first part of the game,

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and then once extras came, he just couldn't couldn't get

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the job done. Then in the second game, Bryce Miller

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looks a little shaky but hopefully he'll bounce back. And

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then in the third game you get a good start

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from Brian Wu goes six innings, five hits, four and

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runs only one walk with six strikeouts. He does exactly

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what you need him to do, especially after taxing your

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bullpen in the first game. You need your starters to

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at least go six. He does just that. But the

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big story you get to extra innings. You have a

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big hit from Randy Rose Arena, a theme we will

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come back on in the following series to tie the

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game and send it to extra innings. But then Seattle

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can't get anything done and in the on the top

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half of the tenth inning, and then in the bottom of the tenth Victor Roebliss unfortunately injures his shoulder on

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a catch in foul territory and that literally the very

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next pitch, San Francisco would walk it off for the sweep.

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Unfortunate unfortunate for Seattle to get swepts. They at that

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point still hadn't won a series. They had lost too

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and then split one, so a tough tough go of

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it for the Mariners, especially considering the Victor robless news.

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We would later find out he has a shoulder issue

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and it looks like he's gonna miss at least twelve weeks,

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So looking at a three month timeline at least for

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Victor Robust before he is able to return to action.

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Just a huge blow for the team. Not your best player,

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but definitely someone who is your leadoff hitter, who's a

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spark plug, plays great defense, does stuff on the bass pass,

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and I just think an energy ball lack of a

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better term, someone who gives you that spark when you

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absolutely need it, and just his personality will still be

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in the clubhouse and stuff. We'll see kind of how

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that goes along with his rehab and everything. But yeah,

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I'm gonna be interested to see how the Mariners react

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without their leadoff hitter, without Victor Robliss in their lineup

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for the foreseeable future. So it'll be interesting to see

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how they adjust who goes into that leadoff spot. It's

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looking like more often than not, it'll be Julio Rodriguez,

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who I am a big advocate for in terms of

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that's where he should be batting. I think he should

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be your leadoff hitter. Not that I don't think Victor

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Robless is a bad leadoff hitter. I just think Julio

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is best when he is batting leadoff. That's where he

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was almost his entire rookie year when he had his

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best year, and I just think it eventually will start

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to kind of get make him get into a groove

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a little bit. I think he's better at starting things

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than trying to be the guy to finish things. Though,

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once again, we'll come back in the Houston Series and

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he did hit have a huge clutch hit to tie

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the game with the bases loaded, So I think his

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clutch batting is coming around a little bit. I want

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to see a little bit more of it. Still elite

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defensively and everything he provides more than at the plate,

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which I know can be frustrating because that's what you

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expected to do and be your superstar. But I still

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think he's going to be that guy. He's still twenty

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four years of age. I know the age thing is starting to get a little bit old. We've said it

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for the last three years and we're saying it again here.

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But I think you could tell differences in his season,

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at least in the start of his season now versus

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when we were doing it, versus his starts his last

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three years. When his rookie year, he was just striking

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out a lot, and if you remember when he first

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came up, they thought about sending him back down. He

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was not getting a lot of calls from umpires. But

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then he started to heat up and he had his long stretch of really really good baseball, helping send Seattle

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to the playoffs. In twenty twenty two. Twenty twenty three,

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he had a very cold start, then really heated up

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pretty quickly after the first month or so of the season,

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and he kind of kept that level for the entire season,

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and then at twenty twenty four was his probably his

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worst year offensively because he started off really cold and

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really never hit for slug until August September. So that's

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something there that you're already seeing a change in because

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he's a He's walking a lot more, which I think

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is fantastic. He needs to become a little bit more patient,

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use his on base skills, not just be the guy

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to hit forty dingers, even though I know he has

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that in him. If he starts to have the process

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of just getting on base, he's going to force pitchers

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to pitch to him more and then he's going to get more pitches to hit. It's a process thing for him,

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and I'm starting to see that tick a little bit, and I think Edgar's having something to do with that.

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I went down to the clubhouse in the opening series,

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and he spends so much time with Edgar, like a

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good thirty forty minutes in the batting cage, working on

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little things, and I think it's starting to pay off

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a little bit. His results aren't quite there yet, but

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you can see his hitting philosophy is starting to rub

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off on Julio and I think in the long run,

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that's going to be a very very good thing for the Seattle Mariners. A couple other things, Ryan Bliss also

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gets injured after the first game of the Houston series.

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After Seattle gets swept by San Francisco, they come back

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home for a three game set against the Houston Astros,

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who themselves have been struggling to start the season, so

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a kind of a prove it game for both teams,

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and Seattle ends up winning the series. Wins the first game,

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loses the second game, and then on the third game, when it looked like all hope was lost and they

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were down five to zero, in the eighth inning, they

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get the bases loaded, Randy rose Arena hits the Grand

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Slam and it really gets things going. I think Randy's

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been Seattle's best hitter in the early going in this season.

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Once again, similar kind of story here. I don't think

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the numbers back it up. But baseball is such a

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weird game. You can be doing the right things, taking

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good at bats, hitting the ball hard, everything you can

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control can be going well, but the results may not

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be showing. And I think that's something that's happening with

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Randy Arose Arena. But it's starting to turn around now.

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I just think every bat that he's taken looks like

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a professional at bat. It looks like he's very comfortable

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up there. I know Jorge Polonco has been the early

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story of the season because of his RBI, because of

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his I guess maybe it's more of a surprise because

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you're comparing it to what you saw last year, and

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I just think the results have been there for Polanco,

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Whereas I still think the same, if not better at

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bats are happening with Randy rose Arena. He's just not

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getting the results. He's still hitting the ball hard. That will come if he continues to do what he's doing

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now and I start, I think it looks like he's starting to gain some confidence and comfort in Seattle's outfield

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with Julio Rodriguez and formerly Victor Roebus. But we'll see

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kind of how they fill that right field gap. But yeah,

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I think Randy turning into that player that we thought

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we were trading for is going to be a huge

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factor in this season. And if he can be that guy,

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I think the Mariners will find themselves in a playoff

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spot come the end of the season. I have confidence

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Julio is going to be the player that we know and love at least an eight hundred oh ps guy,

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and if he takes the next step, that's another factor

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into the reason why the Mariners can be in that

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playoff spot. So I'm really looking at those two guys.

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Those are the guys that I have sky high expectations for.

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And then whatever you get from other parts of your lineup,

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whether it's Dylan Moore who's been good to start the season,

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whether it's been you know, Miles master Bony coming up

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with a couple of big hits, these aren't gonna be

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guys that are contributing day in and day out, but

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just helping you get wins here and there, and then

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relying on your big boys. Julio and Randy are the

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two that I'm looking at. Callie's to turn it around

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a little bit, but he's walking a lot more than

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he has in the past as well. The Mariners are

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getting on base at a really good clip. That's something

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that's different about this offense than the previous couple years

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of offense. They're still striking out a decent amount, and

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they're actually they're striking out a lot, but they're not

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at the same level as a other teams in the league.

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I think they're usually they'd be second to worst or

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worst in the MLB by this point in both the

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previous two years. Right now, I think they're eighth worst,

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so there's still eight teams below them. Strikeouts aren't everything, right,

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because you look at the teams that have the most strikeouts,

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it's the Red Sox number one, It's the Dodgers number two,

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the Pirates, three Rockies, four Marlins, five Tiger six Yankees,

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six Cubs eighth, the Red's ninth, Mariners ninth. So there

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are some good teams on that list. Most notably the

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Los Angeles Dodgers that are hitting well. So your team

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could still be hit striking out a lot, but having success,

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you have to have the slug you have to. It's

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kind of a three true outcome look on things. Right,

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if you're striking out a lot, you have to A

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be walking a lot, and b be hitting a lot of home runs. Right, If you're doing all three of

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those things, you're still gonna probably have a very good offense.

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Very rarely do you get an offense that is striking

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out a lot, or sorry, not striking out a lot,

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but walking a lot and hitting a lot of home runs.

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That just doesn't happen. The opposite end is you could

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get teams that don't strike out, but they don't hit

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a lot of home runs. They put the ball in play more. I think teams like the Cleveland Guardians, teams

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like the Tampa Rays, like teams that kind of play

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small ball in that sense. The Toronto Blue Jays, weirdly enough,

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are low on the strikeout lists, and they don't have

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a lot of home runs either, so you have to

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be the team. And Mariners right now currently sit at

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thirteenth in home runs, So I think that number could

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uptick a little bit if they start to hit the ball out of the ballpark a little bit more. I

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think that'll be something that the offense can start to

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turn around a little bit. All that being said, the

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Mariners right now are five and eight, so still not

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the start to the season that you expect. It's I

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hate being the guy to say it's early, but it is. This is a big series against the Rangers, all right.

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What I kind of like about this early part of

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the season for Seattle is you're already in Gomo. You

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can't like, Okay, we're five hundred, we're only a game back,

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like it's early, YadA, YadA, YadA. It's already in Gomo.

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If you lose too out of three of the Rangers here, you're losing a game in the standings once again, and

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you're already four games back at this point in the season.

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So I feel like there's a sense of urgency, and

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that's something that Scott's Service teams never seemed to have

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at this point in the season. So I'm curious to

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see if Dan Wilson's coaching style will rub off on

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Seattle and if that permeates itself to being a little

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bit more urgent at this point in the season, because

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I think there needs to be a sense of urgency. Texas looks good, the Angels are coming out hot. I

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think the A's still have something to say. I don't.

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I honestly think the Astros might be the worst team in the division. Called with all that being said and done,

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now the Mariners have to separate themselves from that pack

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and really be the ones to challenge Texas. And if

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they take two out of three or great scenarios, if

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they sweep this weekend series against Texas at home, I

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think that's a huge, huge moment for Seattle at this

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point the season, especially with the injuries they have. They

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need to get George Kirby back, because you guys are

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seeing it every fifth start. You know, you'll get the

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occasional tough outing from Brian wu or Bryce Miller, but

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they're still going six strong. Maybe they give up three

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runs or four instead of you know, two or one,

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but god, it is so we've taken it for granted

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these last four years. But every fifth start. And I

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think Luis f. Castillo has has some good traits to

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him as a pitcher, but he is not the other five,

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and we obviously saw what happened with Emberson Hancock as well.

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I just think like pitching is what this team is

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based on, and we see what it would be like

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if we didn't have the five guys that we have.

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So we need George Kirby to come back. We need

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him to come back and be the ace type of

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pitcher that we know he can be. And it's looking

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like he's gonna be coming back early May, so still

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a few weeks out, but that'll be a big if

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they're able to tread water until that happens and then

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can start to kind of get into groove with their five starting guys. I think that's gonna be something where

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we can kind of look forward to a run for Seattle.

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So again, a big series against Texas. You take two

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three against Houston. That the first game, you know, lots

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of different ways you can look at it, but at

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the end of the day, Seattle, you know, came in.

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It was Luis Castillo versus fran Er Valdez. Oh sorry,

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that was the second day. The first day it was

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Logan Gilbert taking the mound. He went five point two

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to one, hit one, earned, two walks, seven strikeouts. His

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only hit and only earned run came from the Jose

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al Twove home run. It was kind of the first

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game you saw what would happen without Randy a Rose

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of rain or sorry, without Victor Robless. The right fielder

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would end up being Luke Rayley. You saw like what

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it would be like without, you know, Seattle being able

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to have their lead off hitter or supposed lead off hitter.

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Julio starts in that spot, goes over four. Kind of

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a tough stretch for him, but he ends up kind

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of turning it around a little bit. Andres Munoz closes

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the door in the in the ninth inning, after Houston

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goes up three to two, you get the bottom of

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the eighth inning, two people on. Jorge Polonco hits a

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two RBI single to take the lead for Seattle going

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into the bottom half or the top half of the ninth inning, and that's where Andres Munios would come in

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and absolutely close the door. He brings the fire. He's

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been one of Seattle's best players this year. Every single

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time he's come up, JP with a great diving catch

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to get the first out of the ninth inning. But

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Munyos has been, he's been the guy. It's hard to

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really overstate how important a really, really good closer can be,

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especially for a team that plays a lot of close games like Seattle does, and having the confidence you do

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in andres Minyoz to come in and close the door. I think he's one of the top five closers in

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the game at this point in time, So hopefully Seattle

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can kind of keep that momentum going into the Texas series.

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Lose Game two, Luis Castillo go's five strong without allowing

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an earned run, had to kind of work out of

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a couple jams a couple of times, but does what

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he needs to do. Very Louis Castillo start for me,

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because so often we would see him like he's not

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going to be the type of pitcher to absolutely dominate

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just top to bottom with fifteen strikeouts, go eight innings

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and just not throw a guy on base. But he's

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the type of guy that once he gets a couple

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people on he does exactly what he needs to do,

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makes the exact pitches he needs to make in order

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to close the door and make sure that you still

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have a chance to win. Every single time he goes

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out onto the mound, and that's what makes him as

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good as he is. I think he's doesn't have as

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dominant of stuff as when he first got traded over

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here to Seattle, but I still believe he's one of

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your best pitchers and when you need a start, you

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know you're going to get something from him. So it's

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good to see in the early going of the season how he's been pitching, which has been great against some

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good offensive teams, I might add, So that'll be something

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to keep an eye on as we move along. But

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you end up losing because you go into extra innings.

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The one run you got from him was from an

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error from the third basement Dylan Moore. But you're able

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to get what you need from the starting pitching even

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though you took it to extra innings, you couldn't get

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the job done. Once again, that the ghost runder does

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knock out as an urn run. So the Seattle somehow loses the game two to one without allowing an earn run,

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and they're they're going into Wednesday's Game four and eight

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needing a win, needing to get the series win for

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their first series win of the season against Houston Astros

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at home, and they start off a little bit, a

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little bit slow Luis F. Castillo. Once again, as I

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mentioned earlier, you're starting to see what it would be

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like if the Mariners didn't have the five guys that

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they have. I think there's some good stuff there, but

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he's just not not one of the five hammers that

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you're used to seeing every single day. So that's something

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that will keep an eye on how they're gonna tackle

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the every fifth day starter Luis. Luis F. Castillo goes

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four four innings, six hits, three runs, five walks and

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three strikeouts. Uh Bizardo Snyder and Casey Lawrence with the

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other three pitchers. So Seattle was battling from behind from

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the get go. Here and a couple Randy Rose Arena. He,

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like I said earlier, he's been the best hitter I think in Seattle for this early part of the season.

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Gets the Grand Slam, a big Grand Slam that puts

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you back in the game. The place was starting to die a little bit. Everyone was sensing, oh, here we

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go again, a poor start to the season, kind of

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dreading losing to the Astros once again. But he he

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puts an end to that, puts some put some energy

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into the building and makes it five to four going

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in to the eighth inning and or ninth inning, I

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should say after after his grand Slam he used to

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and actually scores one in the top half of the ninth,

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so they have a two run lead going into the

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bottom of the ninth inning. The Mariners load the bases

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once again, Julio Rodriguez with a two run double, a

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huge hit for him, I think, And if you look

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at kind of the way that at bat played out,

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you could tell the difference in approach and Julio Rodriguez's

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swing there, and it was great to see. I think

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it's something we can definitely keep an eye on as

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the season goes along. But Julio, if we if he

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continues this this approach where you're gonna be a little

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bit more patient. You got to hit the fastball. That's

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something that I've noticed a little bit. He's been a little late to fastballs. He needs to be able to

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pull that baseball when it's when it's coming at him

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a little bit faster and be ready to pull the

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trigger and go dead red. But it was a perfect

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pitch from Brian to Bray. You a slider on the

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lower outside corner. And he just pokes it the other

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way into the corner, gets to second base. I was

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curious why they didn't send Dylan Moore. Oh, actually maybe

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it maybe it wasn't Dylan Moore on uh on third base.

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It might have been JP Crawford. Yeah, that's what it was.

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It was JP Crawford, and uh. I was curious why

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they didn't send him to to have him be the walk off hero. But it ended up playing out because

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the bases got loaded again after another walk. Jorge Polanco,

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Jorge Planco walks. I believe, no, he doesn't. He hits.

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So that was with no. Alex Julio hits the double. Uh,

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Polanco hits a ground out. Garver hits a ground out.

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Uh No, Garver walks, and then cal strikes out. And

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then that brings up Brandy Roserena once again, and my goodness,

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he uh wants again walks. But everything you need from

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him that at bat. And that's why I've always liked Randy at bats. He will take his walk if it's

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given to him, but he will also pounce on a

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pitch when it's there. So Randy with driving in five

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of the seven runs for Seattle, just a huge day

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for him. The other two of course coming from Julio

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on the two run double. Yeah, this was a huge

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win for Seattle. They kind of win everything seemed down

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and out, down five zero, came back, ended up winning

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the game. Everything you could ask for. And now now

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Seattle needs to take that momentum going into the Texas series.

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They need to win at least two out of three in that game in that series, and then they'll start

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to build good weeks, start to build good series, and

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that'll be something Dan Wilson can can build on. So

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I want to hear from the skipper. We're gonna hear

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from Dan Wilson here in just a second, So we'll

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hear from him. We'll hear from Julio Rodriguez both postgame

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after Wednesday's game. It was an excellent, excellent kind of

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way to wrap up the three game set versus Houston,

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getting two out of three, versus those guys kind of

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continuing their slow start and maybe getting you out of

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yours a little bit. This has to be a jumping off point for Seattle. If it's if it's a blip

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in the radar and you start to go downhill again, you lose the Texas Series and anything after that, then

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then we can start to look a little bit longer term.

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But I'm still refusing to kind of give up this

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early in the season on this team. I think there's

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still something there. There's there's a different energy with this

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group than I've seen in years past. I really really

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want to see the jump Julio can make. I want

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to see Randy be that guy that we traded for, and I want to see that what this team looks

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like when George Kirby comes back. I think that's a

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bigger I think that's a bigger injury than the Victor

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Robis one. Everyone's talking about the Robust injury and how

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much that'll affect Seattle. I think you can fill in

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playing right field. Luke Rayley will do that just fine.

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You need to find a first basement. I don't think Rowdy te Lez is the answer right now, but I

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don't think Donovan Solano is the answer right now either.

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But I still think that fifth starter, that George Kirby

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ability is going to be so key to this team

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going forward and giving kind of getting back in that

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groove of having someone you believe every single day to

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give you a chance to win, and hopefully Seattle will

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find start finding their offensive footing a little bit, and

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honestly they have. They this is a faster start offensively

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then I'm used to seeing for the Seattle Mariners. You

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look at runs scored, it's probably the main stat that

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I look at Seattle right now is twenty first in

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run scored. You would like that to go up a

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little bit. They have played two less games than the

24:48

first place Chicago Cubs, so counting stat that should go up.

24:52

But there's a lot of teams that have played one less game than even Seattle at this point, so I

24:57

would expect there. But they're literally one run lower than

25:01

the Texas Rangers, who they play this weekend, who have

25:06

first place in the division, so you could see those

25:08

offensive numbers kind of tick up a little bit. They're

25:10

on base has actually been pretty good. They are over

25:15

a three hundred clip. They're at nineteenth. I shouldn't say

25:17

pretty good, but from what we're used to seeing with

25:20

Mariners offenses, that's not as as low as it could be.

25:25

So hopefully Seattle will get two out of three versus Texas.

25:31

We'll talk to you guys again next week. Let's just

25:34

take a quick look at Seattle's schedule here they have

25:38

a weekend series against the Rangers and then they go

25:41

to Cincinnati on Tuesday. So well, actually, you know what,

25:46

I think that's a good that's a good way to go about it. We're gonna check in back with our

25:50

podcast on Monday after the Rangers series because I think

25:54

however that series goes, will determine kind of what we're

25:58

looking at for the next couple weeks for the Mariners,

26:00

because if they win that series, I think we could start to be like, all right, we're back in the

26:04

we're back in this thing a little bit, and we

26:07

could start to kind of look at things that way. If they lose that series, well we might have to

26:10

have some bigger conversations. So all right, before we get

26:13

out of here, let's let's hear from the Mariners skipper

26:16

Dan Wilson, as we always do here on Mariners Weekly,

26:19

after the series versus the Houston Astros. Here's what he

26:23

had to say on Wednesday after the Mariners comeback victory.

26:31

Boy, where do you start on a game like that?

26:35

You know, we talk about it a lot. These guys

26:39

put up some incredible at bats late in the game,

26:41

to come back to get close and then in the

26:44

ninth to win it. You know, you talk about you know,

26:49

being selective, being careful, Randy with the grand Slam and

26:52

then a walk off walk It's just a great at

26:57

bat there, Julio going down the right field line. Great,

27:00

a great app ad there. You know, even Donnie Silanell

27:04

getting an no too fast ball up in the zone hitting that ball to right field and Mastro hitting ballop them.

27:08

I mean, it's just right down the line.

27:10

When when you talk about the past late in the game to come back, and that's not to mention what's

27:15

inside the heart of each and every one of those guys.

27:19

And uh, you know, I think pitching wise, the bullpen

27:23

did an outstanding job keeping that thing right where it

27:25

needed to be, and uh, you know, gave us a

27:28

chance late in the game to win it. And and and our guys, you know, our offense took care of

27:31

the rest just to you know, to win the series

27:36

that way after a loss, a really tough loss last night.

27:40

That shows so much and uh, just a just a

27:42

great job today by our guys. The leaves that added

27:47

this group and that you've seen from this group. How

27:49

important is kids? As a result, I just yeah, no doubt.

27:56

You know, this is uh, you know, winnings a whole

27:58

lot better than losing. And today, you know, we were

28:01

able to get the result that we wanted. And and uh,

28:05

you know, these guys never they never doubted, you know,

28:10

they they never felt like they were.

28:11

Out of it.

28:12

Did they put together a really good eighth inning h

28:15

to get close, and then that ninth inning to do

28:17

it again. Uh.

28:19

You know, it's just you know, it's it's it's impressive,

28:23

it really is.

28:24

And and they do it so often, and this is

28:27

one you know, hopefully we continue to build on secret.

28:31

That he goes up there he wants to hit.

28:37

And still get the big walk off.

28:38

It's just what did you see this? Yeah, really a

28:42

big day for Andy.

28:44

You know, the Grand Slam was was crushed, you know,

28:46

earlier in the game hitting the ball, I believe right field,

28:50

you know, a couple of walks today. I mean, this

28:52

is a guy that's you know, he's really swinging the

28:54

bat well and we saw it all spring where he

28:57

was you know, it really changed his approach and was

28:59

using them to the field and and he's continuing to

29:02

do that and the bats have been really really good

29:05

and today was you know, you know, to be in

29:07

that situation two outs, uh, and and really show some patience.

29:12

You know, even when he swung at the I think it was the two to o or I can't remember

29:17

which pitch it was, but he swung out, he was a little disappointed in himself that he had swung it

29:21

at a pitch that wasn't a strike.

29:22

And and uh, you know he's.

29:25

He's really taken to the approach and and uh again

29:28

it's it's really shown and those were some impressive at

29:30

bats today. Energy and really these guys, but it seems

29:34

likely moments to kind of fire his teammates.

29:38

So just what do you see about his ability to

29:41

do that.

29:42

Yeah, you know, our our we've we've talked about it

29:46

since the off season. You know, our outfield is extremely

29:48

dynamic and and uh to a man, these guys have

29:52

a joy for the game. They have a love for the game, and and they have incredible talent to go

29:57

with that all, you know, and uh, uh Randy's it

30:01

fits right in with that group, and it's a tight group.

30:03

And uh they they they are a lot of energy

30:07

for this team and and that will continue to be throughout the year.

30:10

Struggling a little bit going with this game as it's

30:13

by early series. For him to come through.

30:15

That close situation, how did that for him?

30:19

His confidence?

30:20

And you guys going, yeah, I mean, you know this

30:22

is h yeah.

30:23

It it's just.

30:24

Big overall that that uh, you know, we were able

30:28

to put up some good.

30:28

At bats lated to win this thing in and uh,

30:31

you know it didn't matter who was in the box, but but Julio certainly did come up with some some

30:36

you know, big RBIs for us, and and uh, you know, to.

30:39

Be able to shoot that ball, you know, that's big.

30:41

And when he's able to do that, that's that's where he's at his best too. That was a huge at

30:46

bat and and uh really kind of turned the time for us. You mentioned everybody's Solano Mastriboni, who Randy.

30:52

I mean, when you've had some big, bigger injuries and losses,

30:55

is that.

30:55

What it's gonna take in terms of everyone.

30:57

Having quality at bats and kind of pitching in a way that it Yeah, I mean, you know we've.

31:02

We've talked about it all along. It's it's little things. You know, it might be a walk today, and it

31:06

was a walk today that won us a ball game. There's a lot of little things that can come up

31:10

and and that's why we need everybody one through nine

31:13

to contribute. And we got that today, no doubt about it.

31:16

And uh, you know we'll come back.

31:18

Here on Friday and and we'll do the same thing

31:21

with one through nine.

31:24

Fist making the read on the replay for Salona to

31:27

be safe.

31:27

Just how important was it for him to react that

31:29

quickly and.

31:30

See see what he did.

31:31

Yeah, that's a that's a huge play for us, you know,

31:34

you know, heads up to Donnie too to be able to get back to the bag. That's a that's a

31:37

tough read, you know, to to get back. It was

31:40

a very close play, but you know, a huge turnaround

31:43

for us to to be able to have that that

31:46

runner at third with just the one out. You know,

31:49

that's that was a great read bye by Donnie. Huge

31:53

that that that Biss was able to to be right

31:55

on that call and and get it overturned. That's just

32:00

to you know, you know, we look for breaks and

32:03

and that was a break for us and a great job by bisted.

32:05

It to help with that.

32:06

Do you feel like you guys would do for some breaks?

32:08

To Yeah, you know, you always feel like you're on

32:17

the downside of breaks.

32:18

You know, I feel I do feel like our guys

32:20

have hit a lot of balls hard and and have

32:23

you know, they've been caught. But you know, you don't

32:27

know where your break's gonna come from.

32:29

But I think in some ways to you make your

32:31

own breaks, and and today our guys made their own breaks.

32:35

You bring up today with with a tack.

32:39

Bull and hes up, Yeah, I mean Casey threw the

32:44

ball extremely well. You know, he is really invaluable to

32:50

have that kind of a guy who knows how to pitch.

32:53

He's a veteran, he's been around and and uh, you know,

32:55

was really.

32:55

Able to to pitch very well and and keep this

32:59

game right where it needed to stay. You can't say

33:02

enough about his performance today and and uh, you know,

33:05

really glad.

33:05

To have him do that for us, and and then

33:08

to be.

33:09

Able to turn around and get it get a victory from it is is big.

33:13

The obviously the side is.

33:18

Yeah, still a little bit of soreness on on his you know, from when he swings right handed, and uh,

33:23

you know that was the reason for it. But you know, continues to get better and better and we'll keep monitoring

33:27

it and and uh but again a bat that we

33:30

want to keep in the lineup.

33:31

As much as possible.

33:32

Dan, can you handle at least.

33:34

Comes this year? Yeah, I mean so far it has been.

33:39

But if if we're gonna come out on this way, I'll take one hundred and forty nine of them. But uh,

33:44

you know again, it's what's in that clubhouse. It's what's

33:47

inside each of every one of those guys to be

33:49

able to do something like that down, you know, for nothing, Uh,

33:53

you know, in a game that that uh, you know,

33:57

it was a tough it was a tough go Brown

34:00

through the ball very well. And then for those guys

34:02

to come back like they did and then you know,

34:05

come back on the ninth again and do it again,

34:08

That's that shows a lot, all.

34:11

Right, that's Dan Wilson. Once again, we were hearing the

34:15

blaring of the music at the end of a series

34:18

win for the Mariners against the Houston Astro. Second time

34:21

in a row we've had that. So it's always one

34:24

of my favorite parts about hearing those post game sounds

34:27

of guy's vibe and all that stuff. So it's good.

34:29

It's good to hear the guys are in good spirits. I like what Dan was saying about kind of keeping

34:34

things in perspective regarding this team, and you know, where

34:39

you can take get some breaks, sometimes you can't. It's early.

34:43

Like one of the reasons where it's early comes into

34:47

play is with some results even though your process is

34:53

going well from the offensive side of the ball, and

34:58

batting average still has a place in evaluating, you know,

35:03

evaluating players in today's game. But I do believe, especially

35:09

this early in the season, like Randy is a below

35:11

two hundred batting average, Julio has a below two hundred

35:14

batting average, but I think both of those guys are having better offensive years than they did last year. Already,

35:19

Randy is an eight hundred ohps, so he's either walking,

35:22

he's he's or hitting the ball hard and sometimes he's

35:25

getting unlucky for it. So there can be a lot

35:29

of discrepancy with batting average and how you're actually playing offensively.

35:33

And I'm going to beat that drum the entire year,

35:36

so you guys will be hearing that a lot from me. So this team's not going to have a lot of

35:39

high batting average guys. When you put the ball in

35:42

play in T Mobile Park. It doesn't always work out,

35:44

and that's one of the reasons it makes such a hard park to hit in. That's why you have to

35:49

lean on the long ball, have to lean on your walks,

35:51

And I think this team's doing a good job at the beginning of the season of leaning into those two

35:55

things that kind of work in this ballpark. So hopefully

35:59

that can continues. Hopefully that's one thing I think Randy

36:03

brings to the team really well. He takes a lot of walks. He's almost had like an eighteen percent walk rate,

36:07

It's one of the highest in the majors. Julio's added

36:10

that part to his game. He's always been kind of a high strikeout guy, but then doesn't walk. If you

36:15

kind of add the duality of getting more walks alongside

36:18

of that, then that kind of negates a lot of the strikeouts that you're going to take as well. So

36:22

hopefully that continues. I'm excited to see what happens in

36:25

this weekend series versus the Rangers. I'll do it for

36:28

here from Mariners Weekly you can catch. We'll do something

36:32

a little bit similar next week. But the off days

36:35

actually on Monday, and I actually think that's a good idea,

36:38

kind of recheck in with the Mariners after a big

36:40

series in Texas. So you'll hear me in just three games,

36:45

but let's let's go get two out of three versus

36:48

Texas and kind of get back into this division race

36:50

a little bit. So that's Mariner's Weekly with Anderson Hurst.