Seattle ends 2-5 road trip with loss to Rangers
ARLINGTON, Texas – Pretending the first week on the road never happened might be the best thing the Mariners can do.
And now, heading into today’s home opener at Safeco Field, they’ll have to hope their fans can do the same.
The Mariners limped out of Texas on Sunday after a 9-2 loss to the Rangers, having dropped their first two series of the season while seeing a number of vulnerabilities laid bare.
Seattle fell to 2-5 after struggling all week to get decent starting pitching, or timely hitting from an offense many expected to be this squad’s biggest weakness. Sunday, starter Ian Snell trailed 5-1 after two innings and was gone after three, while the offense generated four or fewer runs for the fifth time in seven games.
“Obviously, the five (Texas) runs in two innings kind of put us behind the eight-ball,” manager Don Wakamatsu said.
The series finale, played in front of 26,846 at Rangers Ballpark, was pretty much done after those two innings. Snell threw 63 pitches in the opening two frames, giving up a solo homer to Michael Young in the first and an Elvis Andrus RBI triple in a three-run second.
The Mariners are averaging only three runs per game. Seattle has been hard-pressed to do anything offensively without the help of errors or wild pitches.
“I think there are some things that we’re working out right now,” Wakamatsu said. “That’s the bottom line.”
Rangers 9, Mariners 2
| Seattle | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | Avg. |
| I.Suzuki rf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .286 |
| Figgins 2b | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .240 |
| Kotchman 1b | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .227 |
| F.Gutierrez cf | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .444 |
| Griffey Jr. dh | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .267 |
| Jo.Lopez 3b | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .179 |
| Byrnes lf | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .125 |
| Moore c | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| J.Wilson ss | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .261 |
| Totals | 33 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| Texas | AB | R | H | BI | BB | SO | Avg. |
| Dav.Murphy lf | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| M.Young 3b | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .182 |
| Hamilton cf | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .235 |
| Guerrero dh | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| N.Cruz rf | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | .450 |
| C.Davis 1b | 5 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | .211 |
| Treanor c | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| J.Arias 2b | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .500 |
| Andrus ss | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | .238 |
| Totals | 35 | 9 | 16 | 9 | 4 | 2 |
| Seattle | 010 | 010 | 000—2 | 9 | 2 |
| Texas | 140 | 021 | 01x—9 | 16 | 1 |
E—Moore 2 (2), Dav.Murphy (1). LOB—Seattle 5, Texas 12. 2B—Figgins (1), Kotchman (2), Hamilton 2 (3). 3B—Andrus (1). HR—M.Young (1), off Snell. RBIs—Figgins (2), Moore (1), Dav.Murphy (1), M.Young 2 (2), Guerrero (3), N.Cruz (9), C.Davis (1), Treanor 2 (2), Andrus (2). SB—F.Gutierrez (2). CS—Figgins (1). SF—Dav.Murphy, M.Young, N.Cruz. RLISP—Seattle 4 (F.Gutierrez, J.Wilson, Byrnes, Kotchman); Texas 7 (Treanor 2, M.Young, C.Davis, Hamilton, J.Arias, Andrus). RMU—Figgins, Kotchman, Moore. GIDP—Byrnes, J.Arias. DP—Seattle 1 (Figgins, J.Wilson, Kotchman); Texas 1 (Feldman, J.Arias, C.Davis).
| Seattle | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | NP | ERA |
| Snell L, 0-1 | 3 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 78 | 5.00 |
| Colome | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 39 | 7.20 |
| Texeira | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 7.71 |
| League | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 4.91 |
| Texas | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | NP | ERA |
| Feldman W, 1-0 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 117 | 2.57 |
| D.Mathis | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0.00 |
| Ray | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3.38 |
HBP—by Colome (Treanor). WP—Texeira, Feldman. CI—Moore 2. T—3:03. A—26,846 (49,170).