The Mariners are out of the playoff picture.
The Mariners lost a heart breaker Saturday night. Oakland led 7-4 at the stretch. Seattle scored three times in the bottom of the seventh to tie the game, Robinson Cano singling in a run and Nelson Cruz hitting a two-run homer.
The Mariners gave back the lead in the top of the eighth. With two out, Steve Cishek gave up a single, then an error on a pick off put the runner on third. Marcus Semien hit a ground rule double to score the run, which of course would not have scored from first base. Semien went 4 for 6 in the game with two doubles.
The Mariners came back in the bottom of the eighth, also with two out. A double and a walk set up a Ben Gamel RBI single (a lifetime .178 hitter) to send the game into extra innings.
Edwin Diaz was on the mound at this point, the ultimate power-control reliever. He pitched well for 2 1/3 innings, but gave up two doubles in the tenth for the winning run. The Mariners got a lead-off single from Gamel in then, and an Oakland wild pitch put him in scoring position with the Mariners big three coming up. Cano, Cruz, and Kyle Seager only managed to get Gamel to third, and Seattle’s play-off hopes died.
Cano was especially hot down the stretch. He hit .380 over his last 12 games with 10 extra-base hits including six home runs in his last six games. He fell one hit short of super hero status.
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2dQERaL
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