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    Game recap: Athletics 7, Mariners 5, 13 innings

    SPNW StaffBy SPNW StaffOctober 3, 20155 Comments3 Mins Read
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    Takeaway

    The season that wouldn’t end kept going until the Oakland A’s finally put away the Mariners 7-5 Saturday night at Safeco (box score) on a two-run homer by SS Marcus Semien in the 13th inning. Innings-wise, it was Seattle’s longest game this season The Mariners (75-86) have lost nine of 10 games.

    Essential moment

    With the Mariners in position to win, leading 5-4 in the ninth, closer Tom Wilhelmsen came on to put on the first two runners with a walk and a hit batter. He followed that with a wild pitch that moved the runners up, setting the table for Houston’s Brett Lawrie to tie with a sacrifice fly to left.

    Pitchers

    Just when it looked like he may have done enough to warrant a serious look for the 2016 rotation, LHP Roenis Elias ended with a dud. His final start included seven hits, three walks and four runs over two innings. Elias gave up a three-run homer in the first. In the third, he gave up a single and two walks to the first three batters he faced, leading to him being pulled with the bases loaded. The performance was enough to raise Elias’s ERA to 4.14 – making his season look a lot worse than it had an hour earlier (3.89).

    LHP Tony Zych had another strong outing in relief of Elias. The Seattle bullpen fired off six innings of scoreless relief before Wilhelmsen blew a save opportunity for the second time this season.

    Hitters

    2B Robinson Cano gave the Mariners life with a three-run homer in the third inning, after Seattle had fallen in a 3-0 hole. SS Ketel Marte gave the Mariners their first lead with an RBI single in the sixth. Then the bats went quiet for seven innings, with Oakland switch-pitcher Pat Venditte shutting down all nine hitters he faced in the 10th, 11th and 12th innings. DH Nelson Cruz didn’t get a shot at Venditte, as a groin injury forced him out of the game in the 12th.

    Words

    “I would imagine so.” – Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon when asked whether
    Cruz’s groin injury will force him to miss the season finale Sunday.

    Noteworthy

    Cano extended his hitting streak to 15 games, longest current streak in baseball. Cano went 2 for 5 to raise his season batting average to .287, but has no chance ti extend his streak of .300-plus seasons to seven  . . . With his inning-ending strikeout in the eighth, Seattle RHP Carson Smith matched Enrique Romo’s team rookie record of 92 strikeouts in a season by a relief pitcher . . . A throwing error by 3B Danny Valencia in Saturday’s first inning was Oakland’s league-high 123rd of the season. One batter later, 1B Mark Canha committed No. 124 when he dropped a throw on the back end of a potential double play. SS Marcus Semien added his AL-high 35th error of the season to give the A’s three errors on the night and 125 on the season.

    Next

    Remember all that emotion of Game 162 this time last year? Felix Hernandez on the mound with the AL wild card in the balance? That was last season. Sunday, we get Seattle LHP Vidal Nuno (1-4, 4.19 ERA) facing Oakland RHP Chris Bassitt (1-8, 3.60 ERA) in a game that means nothing. Scratch that: it means the disappointing 2015 season is finally, officially, blessedly, over.

     

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    5 Comments

    1. 1coolguy on October 4, 2015 1:45 am

      YAWN – Same old, same old: Hope Dipoto signed a contract that called for Lincoln to get out of the way, otherwise nothing will change. Remarkable the insanity of the ownership keeping the common thread Lincoln in place, even if he does represent the majority owner.

    2. bugzapper on October 4, 2015 8:15 am

      Hey! What about these Mariners World Series tickets I bought last spring? Think I can move them on Stub Hub?

      • 1coolguy on October 4, 2015 5:19 pm

        So you fell for their BS hype??? I suggest keeping money in your pocket until at least Memorial day.

    3. bugzapper on October 4, 2015 8:25 am

      Enrique Romo, he of the extremely soft 8-0 record, and no doubt a major contributor to the creation of the “blown save” stat. His M.O. was to come into games where the M’s had the lead, blow it, then get the win when the team came back. In those days I argued for a stat called “Loss Allowed,” but I guess the phrase wasn’t pejorative enough for the baseball wonks.

      I still say there needs to be a “Team Loss Allowed” (TLA) or a “BSA” when it’s not the pitcher’s fault. Also, a rule that says no pitcher gets to blow a lead then get the win unless he pitches one full inning after the lead was blown.

    4. Quezebo Jones on October 4, 2015 9:31 am

      If they retain McClendon it will be apparent it is business as usual with Lincoln dictating what happens.

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