Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Luis Castillo Blanks Pirates While Mariners' Bats Handle Business in 5-0 Win

Episode Date: May 28, 2023

Following one of the strangest games the Mariners have played in and fallen on the wrong side of this year, Seattle was able to bounce back in a big way on Saturday afternoon with a 5-0 victory over Pittsburgh. Ty quickly hops on to share his thoughts on Luis Castillo blanking the Pirates over six innings pitched, a big offensive day for the Mariners' top-four hitters, and more. Help us out by filling out our survey!Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11RocketMoneyStop throwing your money away. Cancel unwanted subscriptions -- and manage your expenses the easy way -- by going to RocketMoney.com/lockedonmlb.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase.Ultimate Pro Baseball GMTo download the game just visit probaseballgm.com or look it up on the app stores. Our listeners get a 100% free boost to their franchise when using the promo LOCKEDON (ALL CAPS) in the game store. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Folks, I am happy to report that Luis Castillo is back. And you know what? So is Julio Rodriguez. Let's talk about it here on the Locked-on Mariners Post-Game show. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors, this is the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show.

I'm your host, Tadding Azales. It is May 27, 20-23, and your Seattle Mariners have defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates by a score of 5 to nothing this afternoon at T-Mobile Park improving their 2023 record to 27 and 25 on the back of a brilliant outing from Luis Castillo who strikes out a season high 10 in this one and the Mariners bats also flipping the script on a Pirates team that exploded for 11 runs off of George Kirby and this Mariners pitching staff last night. It was all Mariners all afternoon long in those sweet, sweet Northwest Green uniforms rocking them out in the daylight. Not often we see those bad boys out in the daylight,

and I got to say, pretty nice look for them. I'm also a pretty big fan of the rare Saturday afternoon start time at T-Mobile Park. Really appreciate that as someone who lives in the eastern time zone. Apologies that this episode is coming out a little bit later than I'm sure some of you would have hoped if you were anticipating a postgame show, but I did want to give you guys a show because this was a pretty fun game i got some thoughts on castillo i want to talk a little bit about this offense as well i also want to talk about game three of this series the rubber match that's going to happen tomorrow between these two teams because the pirates pitching situation it's kind of interesting heading into that one um also as you can see i'm not in my normal

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So, as I said, at the top of the show, it appears that Luis Castillo is all the way back after a rough five outing stretch. He had a pretty great start against the athletics, but it's the athletics. I want to see it against a better lineup. And there really was no better lineup to put that to the test. Then the one that, again, put up 11 runs

and hit seven home runs last night at Team Mobile Park in the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Castillo just shredded right through them. It was a completely different story from game one to game two for this Pirates offense. They finished the day with just four hard hit balls all against Cassio, just two hits on the day, and an expected batting average of 077. For Castillo, specifically six innings pitch, just one hit allowed, 10 strikeouts of season high, as I mentioned, two walks had some iffy command at times in this game. We'll talk a little bit about that in a moment here.

99 pitches and again, four hard hit balls. Before we dive more into Castillo, tip of the hat to this Mariners bullpen, Gabe Spire, Matt Brass, Trevor Gott, Justin Topa. They came in over the last three innings of this game and struck out seven more pirates. The pirates struck out 17 times this afternoon. Wild. So Castillo this afternoon,

64 strikes on 99 pitches. The fastball command at times was a little all over the place. There was, of course, that a bat against, or played appearance, rather, against Jason DeLay, where he had him 2-2, and then widely miss the strike zone with back-to-back fastballs to walk delay. That was one of its two walks on the afternoon.

Overall, 45 fastballs, 23 sliders, 16 changeups. We've been seeing a change-up heavy approach from Castillo over his last couple starts. That wasn't necessarily the case today. Again, his third most used pitch. He threw the sinker 15 times. So change-up was almost his least used pitch

out of his four offerings this afternoon. The fastball and the sinker were both ticked up in velocity by about one and a half miles per hour. So that was really nice to see. He had a, as, you know, as much as I was talking about the, you know, if he command on the fastball, when he was able to find the strike someone with it, he was dominating with it.

He ended up inducing a 36% call strike plus whiff rate on that pitch. But it was really the. slider this afternoon that was eating 61% called strike plus whiff rate on his 23 sliders. That's five whiffs, nine called strikes, 14 call strikes plus whiffs in total on those 23 pitches. Ridiculous pitch this afternoon for Castillo. Change up also ate a bit, 38% call strike plus whiff rate, including five. whiffs. He had 24 whiffs in total this afternoon. Pirates just could not do anything against him and diving a little bit deeper into the box score here. Brian Reynolds strikes out twice. Carlos

Santana strikes out three times. Jack Swensky strikes out three times. Brian Hayes strikes out three times. Jason Delay strikes out two times. These guys just looked utterly confused against the Mariners pitching staff. So great bounce back for the Mariners pitching staff that had a rare blow up last night. And again, you know, conversation about what balls were used and all that stuff. I'm sure you guys can debate that down below.

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If you're out and about tomorrow, you can catch the Mariner's of the Pirates on the Mariner's hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. And thank you for making us your first listen here after the Marys 5-0-0-Win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. This is the Locked-on Mariner's Post-game show. And shame on me for not mentioning

Castillo's last inning in this one. It was a little bit surprised considering how the command was starting to tail off on the fastball in the fifth inning to see him out in the sixth inning. Figured with kind of a big-ish lead, they were up, I believe, four nothing at the time.

Maybe it was five-nothing by that point. That Scott would just go to the bullpen. But Castillo was fantastic in that inning. Yeah, just great stuff. He really put an exclamation point on this start with that. So, again, great outing for Cassio. And this was a great outing for this Mariners offense as well.

Again, just flipping the script on this Pirates team, all Mariners all afternoon long, five runs on 11 hits. They had, let's see here, they had four, seven, eight, nine, 10 hard hit balls on the afternoon. And they jumped all over Pirates starter, Vince Falas. who only goes two innings. He was activated from the injured list today after landing on it with right elbow discomfort. And he left today's game with right elbow discomfort.

So that's a bit of a concern for the pirates. But the Mariners certainly benefited because Velazquez was not necessarily on his A game, missed his spot a bunch, and the Mariners took full advantage of it. They're top four in their lineup today, when it combined seven for 15 with seven of those 10 hard hit balls. Five extra base hits combined, two RBI, one walk. Just a great day for J.P. Crawford, Thai France, Julio Rodriguez, and Jared Kelnik, especially France. A couple of doubles in this one. And of course, Julio with another two-hit outing.

he looks like he like louis cassio is all the way back as well his w rc plus now is up to 106 after today's game so polio is on the up and uh and it just continues uh for him he's uh he's swinging a hot bat right now and his overall approach just looks a lot better he's not it doesn't look like he's trying to do too much as often as he was just you know a couple of weeks ago so that's a really positive sign. Tay Oscar Hernandez with a hard hit ball. He had an RBI in this one, RBI double. Cal Raleigh with one of the other hard hit balls

and then A. E. E. E. E. E. E. E. Hohenio Sweris with one of the hard hit balls, which resulted in a flyout, unfortunately. He hit it at a 38 degree launch angle, 380 feet and 102 miles per hour off the bat. And all he got for it was a trip back to the dugout. So that's kind of brutal for him. He's had a few of those now where put good wood on the ball and just hasn't gotten anything for it. But again, a great day for this Mariners' offense against this Pirates pitching staff, which is, you know, not too bad. They can pitch a little bit.

Interestingly, you know, Velazquez, of course, wasn't supposed to start this game. When we previewed this series back on Friday, Roanci Contreras, their young, exciting starter was slated to go in this one. But instead, they went with Velasquez. And for now, it appears that he's just been bumped from his spot in the rotation for this series. And I don't think he is slated to pitch tomorrow. I believe that is still Luis Ortiz, who's supposed to go for the Pirates. But that's something to keep an eye on here.

Because if it's contraris, then that. Instead of Ortiz, that kind of changes the last. landscape of that game with Marco Gonzalez going for the Mariners. And, you know, as is the conversation every time we talk about Marco, that's going to be a coin flip on what you're going to get

out of Marco. So, but this offense right now, swinging it pretty well. So, even if Marco gets tagged a little bit, if he can give you one of those performances where he gives up like three or four runs, Mariners should be in a pretty good spot.

Whether it's Contreras or Ortiz. They should have a chance to put up some runs. So thank you again for tuning in here to the Locked on Mariners Postgame show. I've been your host Tydang Azalus. We might be back tomorrow. We'll let you know. Keep an eye out on our social channels, Twitter,

YouTube, all that good stuff. Keep your eyes peeled out for announcements on there. And we'll catch you next time. Have yourself a beautiful baseball day. Go M's. We'll see you next time. Peace.