Luis Castillo's Worst Start in a Mariners Uniform
00:00Well, that was certainly something.I'll be getting into the issues that plagued Luis Castillo.And what I would say was his worst start in a Mariners uniform to date and more coming up here on the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show.Let's get into it.You are Locked-on Mariners.Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast.Part of the Locked-on podcast network.Your team every day.
00:26Ahoy, sailors.And a welcome to the Locked-on Mariners Post-game show.I am your host, Tiding Azales, is Tuesday, May 16th, 20-23.Thank you so much for joining me this evening, taking time out of your night to come chat Mariners with me.Wish we were speaking under better circumstances because unfortunately the Mariners lost by a score of 9 to 4.4 tonight to the Boston Red Sox at Fenway Park.Red Sox take game two of this series.And the rubber match will be tomorrow at 4.10 p.m. Pacific.You can catch that game on the Mariners hometown broadcast with Series XM via the SXM app.
00:59Rough night for Luis Castillo.And that's honestly putting it lightly because to me,This was Castillo's worst start in a Mariners uniform today.We'll get into the reasons why.We'll also talk a little bit about this offense,which was,aside from a four-run inning midway through this game,pretty pathetic against a struggling Nick Povetta
01:19and a bad Red Sox bullpen.This is going to be a pretty quick showbecause this is not a fun game to talk about, really.I do have a few notes that I want to go over,but after that,we're going to ball this game up and throw it in the trash.How does that sound?Sounds pretty good to me.
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02:03your first purchase. Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem promo code locked on MLB for $20 off. Downloadgame time today. Last minute ticket's lowest price. Guaranteed. So late last week, we spent a goodchunk of the show diving into the weeds of Luis Castillo's recent struggles over his last four startsheading into this game. We talked about how the barrel rate has gone up significantly from where it wasthrough the first four starts of his season. We also talked about how he just wasn't throwing as manyquality strikes as he was through the first four starts of the season when he was just absolutelymagnificent. And both of those things unfortunately showed up in a pretty big way tonight at FenwayPark. The final line for Castillo tonight, five innings pitched, six strikeouts, two walks, five
02:46earn runs, seven runs allowed in total on six hits. The big number here, though, three home runs,which matches his season total heading into this game. And the other big number, 11 hard hit balls.by this Red Sox lineup, which was really aggressive tonight,seven lefties in the lineup,and they executed their game plan against Castillo to perfection,and were able to take advantage of what was, to me,the worst command we've seen out of Castillosince he came over in that trade with the Reds last July,
03:19just terrible command, no way around it,just 13 of a possible 24 first pitch strikes,but more importantly, the fact that he was just not just catchingsome of the plate, all of the plate, consistently.And the Red Sox took full advantage of that.They did a ton of damage against Castillo.They ate every single cookie that he gave him, it seemed.And this game couldn't have gotten off to a worse start, right?
03:47You have the error by Colton Wong, which I know everyone wants to point the finger at Wongfor a lot of the issues tonight, and I get it because he's an easy target right now.but this game ultimately falls on the shoulders of Castillojust being flat out bad.He was really bad tonight because after that error,he just wasn't able to settle in.He goes middle, middle fastball to Masataka Yoshita for that RBI triplein the second abat of this game.
04:16Then middle middle fastball again to Justin Turner for the two-run,home run over the green monster.Then a couple batters later,he hangs a slider in the middle of the plate forTristan Kossis, who deposits that over the right field wall to make it for nothing.Now, he was able to settle in innings two through four.That was great.That's where most of his six strikeouts came from.
04:38It seemed like, you know, hey, the damage had already been done, but it's Fenway Park.You should still have a chance to be able to get back into this game.Maybe you can salvage at least a decent start out of this.He didn't give up a hit during that stretch, but then, unfortunately, once we got to the fifth inning,he reverted back to the woes that plugged him in the first inningmiddle middle fastball to Alex of Redugo for a leadoff doublethen middle inside third of the plate sinker to Yoshita for ground rule doubleand then hangs a slider to Jaron Duran for the third home run of this game
05:15and that and that's your ball game right there reallywhat's interesting about Cassio is that like Kirbylike George Kirby last night,his velocity ticked upon pretty much all of his pitchesexcept for the slider.He saw a one and a half mile per hourincrease on his fastball average.
05:36He saw nearly a full mile per hourincrease in his changeup.And by the way, he used his changeupa hell of a lot more than we've really seen himsince he's come over to Seattle.He threw that pitch 27 times tonight.we also saw a 1.4 mile per hour increase in his sinker velocity.So he was feeling good tonight.
06:00Just the command was terrible, absolutely terrible.And he wasn't unlucky enough to survive that.The Red Sox were all over it.Again, they were incredibly aggressive and they rewarded for that aggressiveness as well.So just wasn't Castillo's night.And that put the Mariners in a pretty substantial.substantial hole, even though that they were able to knot things up at four piece in the, what was it?I believe the fourth inning, maybe the fifth inning.
06:30I believe it was the fourth inning.It was the fourth inning, yeah.Cassio immediately, after a clean bottom of the fourth, came out in the fifth and gave the lead right back to the Red Sox with that rough fifth inning.And that was his night.And that's the story, ultimately.Like, again, I know that I talked about how bad this offense,was tonight, but the reason that you lost really is because Castio was as bad as he was.You're not going to win many games when your starting pitcher, let alone the ace of your
07:02rotation throws the way that Castillo did tonight.So it's just the way it goes.It's a bit concerning when you pair this with how his last four starts had gone,but Castillo is also notorious for having a month like this.This is kind of the reason why a lot of folks don't label him as an acebecause this has been a running theme for Cassiowhere he just has a really bad month.This predates his time in Seattle, obviously,
07:32to his days in Cincinnati.So hopefully that's just kind of what we're experiencing right nowand what we're enduring,and hopefully there's a light at the end of the tunnel,but this was bad.No way around it.This offense was also pretty bad.tonight again and colton wong was pretty bad tonight he did get a double that's just a second
07:54hit uh since the wrist injury that he suffered against the astros a week and a half ago a weekago however long it's been uh but obviously had the really bad error uh to start this game and thenlost the ball in the lights or had miscommunication with teasker and nandez and the seventhinning, which allowed a runner to get on and moved a runner up to second, which eventuallyscored to add some insurance for the Red Sox.Not like this Mariners' offense was going to score any runs, really anyway.They just, their at bats look pretty pitiful ever since that four run inning that theyhad.
08:33But, you know, on the second miscue, defensive miscue from Wong, that might actually be,like, in all fairness.And again, I know it's really easy to point the finger at Colton Wong right now, and I get it.He's been really bad.He's been really rough to watch.But in all fairness, I kind of feel like that might have been on Teo because that ball landed like 10 feet behind Colton and Colton's backpedaling.Teo is running forward.He has the momentum.
09:08He has probably the best track to go catch.that ball.So I'm not quick topoint the finger at Wongon that front, butstill just a bad play overall.It doesn't really matter.Whose fault it was at the end of the day?
09:28Bad play andkind of exemplifies just theissues that that plug the Marinersall night long.Just a microcosm ofthe struggles tonight that this teamendured.Again, offensively, not a good
09:43night. You're going up against Nick Povetta, who's been statistically one of the worst startingpitchers in baseball to start the season. They got nothing off of him through the first threeinnings of this game. We're able to erupt for four runs in the fourth, but that was it. Couldn't takeadvantage. They had a chance to take a lead at one point. Couldn't capitalize on that. Julio generatedan out. Jerich Kellnick struck out with a runner on third. They couldn't get that run in.the one positive note hereTay Oscar Hernandez continues to hithe had an RBI triple that got past
10:19a diving Jaron Duran in center fieldthat scored twoso hisred hot road trip I think that's what we canactually call it at this point because he's been really goodhe's four for eightin this seriesnot sure exactly what he is for the whole road trip
10:36but he's been pretty damn good on this road tripand so that's a huge plushere that's a silver lining ultimately here for the Mariners but the rest of thisoffense terrible Taylor Tremel at least had a game tying two run home run that'scool to see he has four hits since being activated three of them are home runs hisother played appearances haven't looked particularly great but yeah look that'sthat's as much as I want to focus on this offense and then in this game reallyreally. The other thing that I just want to touch him on real quick, I don't blame Scott
11:16Service for doing this. It just, it sucks. They use Paul Seawald with the Red Sox up bythree, which is not really a situation that you want to put Paul Seawald in or waste PaulSeawald on, but he hadn't pitched for six days, so he kind of needed to use him. But he ends upthrowing 27 pitches, gives up a run. That stings because now you'reyou likely don't have him available for tomorrow's game, which is a pretty big game.All right, my camera disconnected, so weird jump cut for those of you watching on YouTube,but I was about to wrap up anyway.So with that, thank you so much for tuning in to the Lockdown Mariner's Postgame show.
11:57Really appreciate you checking in here, even after a brutal Mariner's loss.Let's do it again tomorrow.We're going to be doing another Lockdown Mariner's Post game show.Hopefully, Colby will be able to join us for that one,and hopefully Marriers will actually be able to win that game and give us something to be happy aboutbut for now, thank you so much for tuning in.Have yourself a beautiful baseball day.See you tomorrow.
12:17Peace.
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