Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Mariners Beat the Trashcan Bangers, But Postseason Unlikely

Episode Date: September 24, 2020

The M's did beat Houston yesterday to take the series 2-1, but the scenario that would allow the Mariners to advance to postseason play is pretty unlikely. D.C. talks about yesterday's game, and then lays out exactly what would need to happen for the M's to end their playoff drought. Rock on! 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.

Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Ladies and gentlemen, if you only knew how much I had to cut out of the program and redo because I get tongue-tied, this is the sixth time I've tried to record the opening to this show. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners. We are, of course, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, or T-L-O-P-N, or T-Lop-N. Remember to download, rate, and subscribe to this program on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use. Ask your smart device to play Locked on Mariner's podcast or Locked on Team Name Here podcast.

Follow us on Twitter at L-O-U-U-U-Nor-R-R-S and follow me on Twitter at D.C. Unders-L-L-D-B-E-R-G, if you're scoring at home. finally made it. Yesterday, September 23rd, 2020, Year of Our Lord, Mariners did what they had to do and beat the Houston Astros by a final score of 3 to 2. Nick Margievich just started the ballgame for the Mariners. Zach Granky opposed him, former Syung Award winner, Zach Granky, no less. So it was a pretty good test for Margievich's, you know, plus the Astros. The Astros, everybody thought that they were going to be really, really good this year.

They're basically a 500 team. And as a matter of fact, after yesterday's game, they are exactly 500, 28, and 28. In yesterday's game, Mariners got things going right away in the bottom of the first inning, Kyle Lewis scoring on a Thai-France RBI double. Thai-France has done very good things offensively for the Seattle Mariners since being acquired from the Padres. Mariners would score two more in the fifth inning on an RBI double by Kyle Seeger to score J.P. Crawford, and then Ty France once again scores Seeger on an RBI single. Astros would not score until the ninth inning,

and they would score both runs on a Josh Reddick single. Kyle Tucker and Alemnes Diaz scoring on the play. Margievichus did start the ballgame for the Margaris, as I mentioned. Six innings, three hits, no runs, of course, three walks. That's kind of iffy. And four strikeouts. So a little bit of a mixed bag for Margevichis, hey, you cannot argue with no runs given up.

Graveman came in for an inning in a third. Kendall Graveman gave up a hit and a walk and struck out a batter. Anthony Masevich, two thirds of an innings pitched, nothing given up with one strikeout. Yoshihita Hedano pitches the final inning, gives up three hits and two runs, one walk, and striking out one batter. He earns his fourth save of the season.

Again, Ty France, who was the designated hitter in yesterday's ballgame, has just been tearing the cover off the ball as a Seattle Mariner. So far since being acquired from the Padres in 19 games, he is slashing 296, 359, 465. He's driven in 10 runs, hit two home runs, four doubles, among his 21 hits. He actually had a better slash line as a Padre, hitting 309, 377, 491.

So when you combine those staff, and his mariner stats for the season, he is slashing 302, 367, 476, with 20 RBI, 4-76, with 20 RBI, 4-R-R-R-R-R-Runs, eight doubles, and one triple. That triple did come as a Seattle Mariner. Another part of that trade catcher Luis Torrens has also been doing very good things as a Seattle Mariner. He is slashing 278, 355, 407 in the 16 games in which he has played at. after the trade.

He also has four doubles and one home run with six runs driven in. As a Padre, he was slashing 273, 333, 364. A very similar slash line to what he has as a Seattle Mariner and for the season, and that was only seven games as a Padre. He wasn't playing every day at that time. His season slash line, when he combined his Mariners and Padre's stats, he is slashing 277, 347, 4.7.4. 400 with six runs batted in, all of those coming as a Seattle Mariner, five doubles,

four of those coming as a Seattle Mariner. So this is shaping up to be a pretty good trade thus far for the Seattle Mariners. And that doesn't involve Taylor Tramel. It is Trammell, not Trammell, as I originally thought. I was thinking of Alan Trammell, the Hall of Fame shortstop for the Detroit Tigers. Taylor Trammell is still a prospect, only time will tell if he winds up being the real deal or not. Show today is probably going to be on the shorter side, ladies and gentlemen.

I will talk about the playoff implications stemming from yesterday's ballgame in the second half of the program. But before the second half of the program, we have to do the Meriters trivia question, don't we? Okay, we shall. Today's Merrittor's trivia question will involve Ty France. He was drafted in 2015 by the Padres in the 34th round of the draft. Today's question, was he the latest draft pick?

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And yes, there are players drafted later on than France was who have made the major leagues. The latest draft picks so far who has made the major leagues. The latest draft picks so far who has made them. major leagues is left-handed pitcher Daniel Zamora, who was drafted number 1207 overall in the 40th round by the Pirates. The last draft pick was number 1215, meaning only eight more players were drafted after Zamora. Do you have a question or a comment?

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Locked-on Mariners' second half is set to begin. Thank you, Joey Martin, for bringing us back. We're going to talk about the playoff implications stemming from yesterday's ballgame with the Mariners winning the Astros losing, obviously, because the Mariners did in fact beat the Astros. And the Angels do play an important role in this also. Ladies and gentlemen, they also won yesterday by a 5-2 score over the San Diego Padres. So as of right now, the Angels are two and a half games back of the Astros for second place in the American League West. and the Mariners, pardon me, are two and a half games behind the Astros.

So, you know, anything can happen again, as I keep saying, the Mariners have four games left all against Oakland. You know, they're the division winner. They're very, very good. They're going to give the Mariners a tough battle. And let's see how the Angels are going to finish up this season. They have three games against the Los Angeles Dodgers to finish up the season. The Dodgers are also really, really good.

They're the champions of the National League West. the Angels need to lose probably two of three or maybe all three for the manners to have a shot. And the Astros finish up with four games against the Texas Rangers. And the Rangers are not a very good baseball team. They're actually pretty lousy. They are in dead last in the American League West. They are 19 and 37. That's a 339 winning percentage.

That's the worst winning percentage in the American League. The Rangers are not very good. So the Astros, again, have that soft schedule. which is, you know, the Astros, I see them probably winning three or four of those ball games just because the Rangers are so terrible. So if that's going to happen, that means the Astros are going to win the second spot in the American League West. But hey, you never know what's going to happen.

If Texas somehow catches lightning in a bottle and goes on some sort of hot streak and the Astros just completely fall off the face of the earth, let's fudge with some numbers. Seattle is 25 and 31. as I said. If they sweep Oakland, and let's face it, gang, that's not happening. They would be 29 and 31. That is the best record that they can achieve this season

if they win the final four ball games against Oakland. Houston would have to lose their final four ball games in Arlington to wind up at 28 and 32 with the Mariners being one game ahead of them. The Angels actually could win two of three. The Astros are really the key here, because the Angels would also have to sweep their final three ball games to be ahead of Houston. Houston is the key. They have to lose out for the Mariners or the Angels to have a shot at that second spot in the American League West.

Again, I don't see that happening. The Rangers are just too poor of a ball club to sweep a team like Houston. They're really too poor of a ball club to sweep anybody in a four-game series. So, you know, it looks like Houston's going to win this thing. As I said, Houston's, got to lose out. The Mariners have to win out, and the Angels would then have to lose at least one ballgame for the Mariners to be at 29 and 31, and for the Astros and Angels to both be 28 and 32. Well, on that high note, we're going to call this show. We'll be back tomorrow,

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