Mariners took the rubber vs. Astros, 9-0 @ Minute Maid Park.

【⚾️ #IchiRoadto50🔻】No.370
Good morning, #Seattle & #Houston 🌱
9.19.2018. Game result:
Mariners took the rubber vs. Astros, 9-0 @ Minute Maid Park.

📈AL-#WildCard
1️⃣NYY
2️⃣OAK
3️⃣TB 5.5
4️⃣SEA 7.0

📈AL-W Divisional
1️⃣HOU 95-57. 625.
2️⃣OAK 91-61. 599. GB 4.0
3️⃣SEA  84-68.  553. GB 11.0
4️⃣LAA 75-77. 493 GB 20.0

【📜Other Games’ Results related to SEATTLE】
9.19.2018

• TB 9-3 TEX
• BOS 1-10 NYY
• LAA 0-10 OAK

Two-way player, #ShoheiOhtani went 1-for-3 with which his batting average was slightly improved to 292. 

【⚡️Today’s Key Players!!】
Offense;
Top 1st;

• Robinson Cano opened with a single on a line drive to left field by which Mitch Haniger scoured. 1-0.
• Dallas Keuchel’s wild pitch scoured Jean Segura with Kyle Seager batting. 2-0.
• Kyle Seager hit a single on line drive to right field, defected by pitcher Dallas Keuchel. Robinson Cano scoured. 3-0.

Top 5th;

• Robinson Cano drove in a run with a double on line drive to center field by which Mitch Haniger scoured. 4-0.
• Nelson Cruz hit a single on a sharp line drive to right field by which Robinson Cano scoured. 5-0.

Top 6th;

• Kyle Seager hit a solo homer, his 22nd of the season on a fly ball to right field. 6-0.

Top 7th;

• Mitch Haniger hit a solo homer, his 26th of the season on a fly ball to left field. 7-0.
• Robinson Cano hit a double on a sharp line drive to right field by which Jean Segura. 8-0.

Top 8th;

• Guillermo Heredia hit a solo homer, his 5th of the season, on a fly ball to left field. 9-0.

Also,

• Seattle produced 11 hits in which Robinson Cano collected three hits. Mitch Haniger, Jean Segura, and Kyle Seager each had two hits. 

Defense; 

• Matt Festa (IP 1.0, Scoreless 1th)- Casey Lawrence (IP 3.0, Scoreless 3 innings) - Adam Warren (IP 1.0, Scoreless 5th) - Shawn Armstrong (IP 1.0, Scoreless 6th) - Zach Duke (IP 1.0, Scoreless 7th) - Justin Grimm (IP 1.0, Scoreless 8th) - Roenis Elias (IP 1.0, Scoreless 9th)
• Matt Festa retired three straight batters on 13 pitches in IP 1.0. His ERA was 1.42.
• Casey Lawrence pitched three innings which was longest in M’s bullpen, strike out 1, allowing a hit, 2 BBs. 

Also, 

• Mariners’ bullpen allowed just 5 hits, 0 runs, 0 ERs and 3 BBs with 3 SOs over 9.0 innings. 

By HIDE

【📸Features】
SEA; 

• Mariners’ bullpen pitched a shutout to revenge on the Astros for yesterday’s shutout losing game. 
• Matt Festa with his first career start and retired the first three batters perfectly. 
• Casey Lawrence pitched three innings giving up just one hit and earned his first win of the season. 
• Robinson Cano had three hits with 3 RBIs.
• Kyle Seager with a RBI single and a solo homer, his 22nd of the season with 2 RBIs.
• Mitch Haniger with two hits including a solo homer, his 26th of the season. 
• Guillermo Heredia with a solo homer, his 5th of the season.

HOU;

🎙HIDE’s COMMENTS;
 The Mariners beat the Astros, 9-0 to revenge on them, who had a shutout win yesterday. Seattle overcome a bullpen game with seven pitchers’ scoreless pitching and 3 homers, taking two of three in this series from Houston at Minute Maid Park.

About the Mariners’ defense, Rookie right hander, Matt Festa had his first career start and retired the first three batters perfectly. Next reliever, Casey Lawrence gave up just one hit in the 2nd to 4th. Adam Warren, Shawn Armstrong, Zach Duke, Justin Grimm, and Roenis Elias each pitched an inning to close it out. 

About the offense, in the 1st, Mitch Haniger hit a lead-off single off Astros starter Dallas Keuchel and Robinson Cano’s single scoured Haniger to open the game, 1-0. They added more two runs with Keuchel’s wild pitch and so on to have a good start. 

Robinson Cano drove in the fourth win with a double and Nelson Cruz hit a single by which Cano scoured to expand a lead to 5-0 in the 5th. 

 Kyle Seager in the 6th, Mitch Haniger in the 7th, and Guillermo Heredia in the 8th respectively hit solo homers to help the bullpen keeping scoreless innings to secure a victory. 

The American League West lead Houston with the 1st place had, reduced to four games in front of Oakland with a winning over LAA, 10-0.
By HIDE

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【⚾️ #IchiRoadto50🔺】No.369
9.19.2018 Today’s game;
The rubber of a 3-game set
ALW 3, #Mariners ✖️ALW 1, #Astros
@ #MinuteMaidPark. We hope a return of #Ichiro.
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📈AL-#WildCard
1️⃣NYY
2️⃣OAK
3️⃣TB 5.5
4️⃣SEA 7.0

📈AL-W Divisional
1️⃣HOU 95-56. 629.
2️⃣OAK 90-61. 596. GB 5.0
3️⃣SEA  83-68.  550. GB 12.0
4️⃣LAA 75-76. 497 GB 20.0

【⚾️Starters】
Starting pitchers are; 
#MattFesta, #67 (RHP) aiming at his 1st win for #Seattle.
#DallasKeuchel, #60 (LHP) seeking at his 12th win for #Houston. 
The Mariners manager, Scott Servais said yesterday it would be a bullpen game. An expected starter was James Paxton, who was not ready to take the mound yet because of a bout of flu and pneumonia last week. Rookie Matt Festa makes his first MLB start. Seattle lost in shutout to Houston, 7-0 yesterday, but they took the first, 4-1 in the series. Today the Mariners have a series final with the final of the season against the Astros.
The win-loss record of the Mariners stands at 83 to 68.
They stand the 3rd place in the #AmericanLeagueWest at the beginning of the game. 

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