By Bel Garcia
Seattle, WA - Seattle looked to bounce back from last night’s late comeback efforts that resulted in a close extra inning loss to the Angels. The Mariners recently acquired Jake Lamb from the Los Angeles Dodgers, and he quickly made his presence felt in his appearance on Friday night’s game as an integral part of the late game comeback. He is a Seattle native, who grew up watching the Seattle Mariners and idolizing Ken Griffey Jr, knowing he would be moved but didn’t expect to be moved to his hometown team. He becomes one of the Mariners who used to also play for the University of Washington Huskies. Lamb has played nine seasons in his MLB career on a total of six different teams, in those nine seasons he has a .237 average, 93 homeruns, 335 RBI, and a .759 OPS. In the first of today’s doubleheaders, he made the starting lineup for the first time in his career as a Mariner, was 0-2 with one walk.
Ty France gave Seattle the lead and eventually a win with his two-run homer (Photo by Liv Lyons)
The Angels were able to punch first once again in this one, with three hits on George Kirby in the second inning, one of those resulting in a scoring run. Once again, the Mariner to step up to the plate, literally and figuratively, would be Ty France. He notched his 14th homerun of the season; a two-run homer to give the Mariners the lead. Servais stated that Ty felt like his timing was off in his first game back last night, but it wasn’t not an issue in this one. France’s career-high season for homeruns was last season, when he had 18. We have 54 games left this season and he is nearing that number and will likely exceed it. Leading the Mariners this season in homeruns are Eugenio Suarez and Julio Rodriguez each with 18.
Andres Munoz pitched an inning and a third of scoreless relief (Photo by Liv Lyons)
George Kirby’s best performances this season have included a total of nine strikeouts, he has done that twice and came close to it again today. Kirby allowed an early scoring run from the Angels in the second inning, the most efficient inning for LA as they got three hits in on the scoring run. In total for Kirby’s time on the mound he only allowed five hits, for the remaining four innings the Angels would only hit the ball twice. He had an impressive performance in the matinee game, didn’t walk anyone in his six innings on the mound. The line for him when relived in the seventh inning would end at six hits, one run, one earned run, and eight strikeouts on a total of 80 pitches.
The offense went quiet for both the Mariners and the Angels after the first two innings, but they’ll need to preserve some of their energy for the second of today’s doubleheader. The Seattle Mariners have played three doubleheaders this season, two of them being against the Los Angeles Angels. Seattle gets the 2-1 win in the matinee game, “ty”ing the series at one win each and will be on the field within a couple of hours for game three of the series. Taking the field in the evening game and making his long awaited return to the club is Mitch Haniger.
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