Mariners Daily 3/9
Today the M's got to face the Chicago Cubs who rolled out a lineup that consisted of most of their starters and James Paxton was tasked with trying to stop them. Paxton pitched very well going 3.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, O BB, and 5 SO, Paxton's only mistake was a solo home run to Anthony Rizzo and led the way for the Mariners who defeated the Cubs, 8-6. Evan Scribner followed Paxton and also pitched well going 1 inning of hitless and scoreless baseball while striking out one. Dillon Overton also pitched well, 2.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, but unfortunately was responsible for the blown save because of an error that allowed the tying run to score. The rest of the pitching performances weren't too spectacular with Jonathan Aro allowing 2 runs through 1 inning, Jean Machi allowed 1 run in his inning and Christian Bergman allowed a run in his inning of work.
Offensively Zunino went deep again for his 3rd homerun of the Spring. Shank, Motter, Haniger, Gamel, Powell, and Valencia all had great games. O'Malley, Freeman and Martin struggled however going a combined 0-9 with 4 strikeouts. Even with those 3 struggling the M's were able to pound out 17 hits and were 5-11 RISP.
Box Score
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Runs | Hits | Errors | |
Seattle | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 1 |
Chicago Cubs | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 2 |
Top Performers
1. | Danny Valencia | 2-3, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 SO |
2. | James Paxton | 3.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO |
3. | Mike Zunino | 2-4, 1 R, 2 RBI, 2 SO, HR, 2B |
4. | Evan Scribner | 1.0 IP, 0 H, 0 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 1 SO, H |
5. | Mitch Haniger | 2-4, 1 R, 2B |
6. | Taylor Motter | 2-2, 1 R, 1 BB |
7. | Zach Shank | 2-2, 1 RBI |
8. | Boog Powell | 1-1, 1 R, 1 RBI, SB |
9. | Ben Gamel | 1-1, 1 R, 2B |
10. | Tyler Marlette | 1-1 |
11. | Tyler Smith | 1-3, 1 RBI |
12. | D.J. Peterson | 1-3, 1 SO |
13. | Nevin Ashley | 1-2 |
14. | Adam Law | 1-2 |
15. | Dillon Overton | 2.0 IP, 1 H, 1 R, 0 ER, 0 BB, 0 SO, BS |
16. | Ian Miller | 0-0, 1 R, SB |
Honorable Mentions
1. | Daniel Vogelbach | 0-1, 1 BB, 1 SO |
2. | Jean Machi | 1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO, W |
3. | Christian Bergman | 1.0 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 1 ER, 1 BB, SV |
Players who struggled
1. | Jonathan Aro | 1.0 IP, 3 H, 2 R, 2 ER, 0 BB, 2 SO |
2. | Leonys Martin | 0-4, 2 SO |
3. | Shawn O'Malley | 0-3, 1 SO |
4. | Mike Freeman | 0-2, 1 SO |
Now to the WBC. The Mariners sent a lot of players to the WBC for multiple different national teams, here is how they have done so far.
Robinson Cano (Dominican Rep.) 1-4, 1 BB
Nelson Cruz (Dominican Rep.) 1-3, 1 R, 1 BB, 1 SO, 2B
Tyler O'Neill (Canada) 0-3, 1 BB, 1 SO
Sebastian Valle (Mexico) 0-4, 1 SO
Yovani Gallardo (Mexico) 4.0 IP, 4 R, 4 ER, 0 BB, 5 SO
Pat Venditte (Italy) 1.0 IP, 3 H, 3 R, 3 ER, 1 BB, 1 SO
Tomorrow's Mariners game will be at 12:10 PM PT at Peoria Stadium against the Cubs again. Chris Heston will start for the Mariners and currently the Cubs have yet to name a starter for the game. Tomorrow's game will be available to watch on ROOT Sports NW and will be available to listen to on 710 ESPN Seattle Radio, but there will be a delay, if you want to listen to the game live then you will have to listen on MLB.com.
Go Mariners!
