Mariners’ bats rule, gloves drool, bag sleeper 7-6

It is difficult to wipe a double head. It’s hard to wipe a double head, even if both games are seven innings. It’s hard to even wipe a double head against the Baltimore Orioles. It’s hard to wipe a double head after the extra chaos that Game 1 was.

I keep repeating these thoughts, but it offers no comfort.

Things even started well! After an exciting victory with eight innings in extra innings (yes, it’s still a weird baseball mode here) in Game 1, Nick Margevicius started his first start of the year with a bang, which was just a single for Anthony Santander and a double to Ryan Mountcastle through his first two frames. Although he always leaned pretty heavily on his fast ball, he kicked it up tonight – 51 out of 67 of his total offers were four-seam, including nine in a row to end the second innings. His average speed tonight was only 90 MPH, but it had a bit of a rumble early on, reaching as high as 93, and Marge used it to unwind from a slight jam by striking both Ramón Urías and Chance Sisco on strikes. gain.

The bats came alive the next frame after a dirty innings. After two innings by keeping Dean Kremer just a José Marmolejos doubles for the second time, Sam Haggerty kicked the party off from the bottom by hitting a 1-1 spin in the middle. He hooked Kremer by getting further and further in the direction of the second point between the seemingly every pitch and rattling him enough to let go of a 2-2-fast ball that was just a little too much of the outer part of the plate caught against Mitch Haniger, who dragged a doubles to the right. field. A four-step move to Ty France later, Kyle Seager made another run chip away.

Well, one run here would have been good. Honest! Marmo, however, had other plans, and he knew it.

As the dust disappeared from the double-headed, José Marmolejos had a four-digit OPS. He has the highest ISO in the team at .421, the team’s best wRC + at 177, and the ball leaves his bat at an average speed of 94.1 miles per hour. It’s 21 records, but he even exceeded my expectations of him. Look at all the joy in this picture!

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I so wish the head photo was this instead of the cheering Orioles. In some alternative universe it is. Unfortunately, that is not what happened in this one.

Anyone who looks at the bottom of the third can tell you what happened. Freddy Galvis, who is somehow still a prolific player in the Major League, led the innings with a base shot in the left field on which Haggerty could probably play, but with a 4-0 lead understood I am conservative in the field. He moved to second place on a wild field, but Margevicius was able to put out the red-hot Cedric Mullins with a perfectly placed fast ball and DJ Stewart gets a routine ground ball after four fourths later.

Oops! I imagine Ty France got a backhand from Perry Hill after this error, and Santander followed by carrying a pointed curve in a 2-1 score to load the base. In honor of Margevicius, he dug into a dangerous power bat in Trey Mancini and had him hit with just three pitches, a quick ball at 92 that dropped him.

Unfortunately, Maikel Franco, who turned in a quick quick ball, brought home a few runs.

Aaaaaaagh. It was not cool, but Santander’s move was not pleasant, but Luis Torrens had to hold the ball there, even if the label was affixed while it was fastened. Which should have been the end of the innings and extended a 4-2 score instead, and of course Mountcastle leveled the game at a basic hit less than two minutes later. Marge came out of third place, but after giving Sisco and Galvis the chance to kick off fourth, his night was over. I find it hard to name a poor outing tonight, given how badly his defense let him down (four undeserved runs!), And he got a lot of swing attacks off his fast ball, but I can not believe that the mixture will work with two pitches. against a non-Orioles offense – it was a series full of right-wingers, yes, but he only showed his disc three times tonight. Regardless, he will get a few more shots before Logan Gilbert comes up.

Will Vest arrives relieved and immediately lets both inherited runners score on a Mullins doubles and a Santander sacrificial fly. It’s been a long time (read: since the James Paxton news) since I felt so empty so quickly. Old friend Wade LeBlanc and vague acquaintance Adam Plutko kept the Mariners just one shot and one run from fourth to sixth, and it looked like they would turn away with a whimper to close out the game.

Not so! They just had to tease us a little. JP Crawford ended a nice day on the board by greeting Plutko with a single midfield in the seventh, and Sam Haggerty joined Ken Griffey, Jr. as the only Mariners to make it.

That’s right, this is a factual tweet.

However, that was all they would achieve, and they sparked even further thanks to Casey Sadler grabbing two quick outs in the bottom seventh series. But double extras on a double head? Even the most chaotic baseball gods would object to it. Sadler walked Franco and let a fairly routine tapper of Ryan McKenna get away from him to put a runner in the points standings …

Both runners penetrated on a wild track, but that would not have mattered, as Urías’ 2-2 base shot would have been more than enough to drive the winning run home, regardless. Sheet metal. For as enjoyable as the first game was, this nightcap was just as crushing. I’m sad for Margevicius, who spoiled a promising and intriguing outing through bad defense. I’m sad about José Marmolejos and Sam Haggerty; bank bird heroes are few and both’s performances deserve to be remembered in a better context than this one. I’m even sad about Casey Sadler, who probably would not even be in the situation if Rafael Montero had not melted in the first game, who had to force Scott Servais to go to Kendall Graveman in extras.

Still, 6-5 is much better than I expected after the first game of the White Sox series. There were also good things to take from today; four home games over two games in one day is nothing to sneeze at, and the offense generally seems to have woken up a bit. Tomorrow they get a chance to feast on Matt Harvey’s corpse, and hopefully there’s enough meat around the defense that could be another shaky outing from Justin Dunn. Let’s hope anyway that it can erase the sour taste that this game has left in our mouths.