Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners BLANK Baltimore Orioles to Begin Series

Episode Date: August 13, 2025

Chris Crawford breaks down a tight pitching battle between the Seattle Mariners and Baltimore Orioles with the Mariners coming out on top. George Kirby was sensational. The offense was bad, but it doesn't matter. It's a great start to the massive road trip.   Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!Trade CoffeeRight now, Trade is exclusively offering our customer 50% off your one-month trial at drinktrade.com/LOCKEDONMLB. OpenPhoneStreamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/lockedonmlb Wonderful PistachiosGet snackin' and get crackin' with the snack that packs a protein punch. Visit WonderfulPistachios.com to learn more! Supply HouseJoin the TradeMaster program today at SupplyHouse.com/TM and start ordering plumbing, HVAC, and electrical supplies with just a few clicks. Plus, use promo code S-H-5 for 5% off your first order. That’s SupplyHouse.com! Monarch MoneyTake control of your finances with Monarch Money. Use code LOCKEDONMLB at monarchmoney.com/lockedonmlb for 50% off your first year. GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. Terms apply. Download Gametime today. What time is it? Gametime. FanDuelRight now, new customers can get TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS in BONUS BETS when your first FIVE DOLLAR BET WINS! Download the app or head to FANDUEL.COM to get started. Bet with FanDuel—Official Partner of the NBA. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

This is the Mariners Postcast. Your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo. That was a nail-biter. And if we're being completely honest, a pretty boring game until that ninth inning. A pretty darn boring game until that ninth inning. But it's a mariner win.

and we shall take it. Mariner's win one to nothing to open a three-game set against the Baltimore Orioles. My name is Chris Crawford. Welcome to the locked-on Mariners Postcast, normally joined by my buddy Anderson Hurst. Anders has a ton of stuff going on. All good, everything good. He's just a very busy young man, so we're going to let him take this one off. Really appreciate you guys stopping in. We're going to talk about George Kirby, who was just phenomenal, and that could probably be just the entire episode. We could end it right there. We're going to talk about this offense, not looking so hot against a pitcher that you should look better against. And then we'll give an unsung hero and an unsung villain.

But before we get started, I'd really appreciate if you guys hit like. I'd really appreciate if you guys hit subscribe, all of that good stuff. Yeah, like the video and support of Chris. Macman, that is an absolutely genius thing to say. Check is in the mail, my friend. So let's start with the start like we always do. George Kirby was just sensational tonight. And what I really liked about Kirby's start tonight was we saw that control that we're used to seeing from George Kirby.

We saw no walks. But we saw it in a way that's been different than sometimes we see George Kirby. Sometimes I think George Kirby can be guilty of just trying to challenge too much, just trying to, say hit my stuff, right? I don't think that was the version of Kirby we saw tonight. I thought he was assertive, certainly, but man, oh man, he was willing to throw pitches outside of the zone and see if hitters would swing at it. And they did. They absolutely did. This was the closest I felt since that 14 strikeout game to George Kirby, just being the version of George Kirby that we are used to seeing. He's had lots of great start. Somebody mentioned earlier that he's had like four great

starts in a row, but it's looked different. This looked more like George Kirby, but better because of the fact that he was willing to throw some pitches outside of the strike zone. I thought he was incredible. And thank goodness they score a run to not waste it. We have seen George Kirby starts go by the wayside. We've seen them for all of these hitters, or excuse me, pitchers. All of these hitters have been the cause of it. This was great. This was awesome stuff. And I love the swing and miss too i think he generates 12 today that's a solid number very little weak contact i'm just sorting by exit velocity here you know a lot of the hard contact unfortunately comes after he comes out of the game but man that's that's ace stuff that is ace stuff and the fact that this guy might

be your fourth best pitcher is just crazy uh i kind of wanted to see dank bud it says i kind of want to see Kirby go out for the eighth two. You could have justified it. I didn't mind the decision to pull him after seven. But I like that they gave, they let him at least work that seventh, right? You had to today. Had to because shortened bullpen. It looks like Matt Brash was not available today.

You can't say enough good things about George Kirby. You cannot. I'll try. Sometimes I'll try and say, hey, come up with new superlatives. but I love how little self-inflicted damage he had while also generating those swings and this was fun. This was fun. Let's talk about the bullpen real quick.

Nice job by Bizarro. You know, he does give up the hit, but I think Bizarro had held the bottom of that lineup well, big out from Gabe Spire, just gets the little flyout. And then Andres Munoz, and, you know, a lot of people are going to talk about the booing. And I'll just get into it real quick. Don't ever boo injuries. I'm not going to blame it on a certain fan base. There are fan bases that are better about this than other.

Never boo an injury. Never. Ever, ever, ever. It's a bad look. I don't like telling people what to do. I feel pretty comfortable in this one. Don't boo injuries. Don't boo them.

It's a uncouth, unclassy thing to do. Right? I'm just Munoz isn't out there faking anything. Come on. Come on. Now, as for how Munoz pitched, I thought he pitched really well. He gets those first two outs very easily.

Does give up, you know, the four-pitch walk and clearly something going on with his hand there. Gives up the single, I'll be honest, I think Ben Williamson makes that play at third base. It's just I pay attention to that stuff. I have, again, no issues with the trade whatsoever. But, you know, I don't think it was super hard contact and then you just get the little grounder to JP to end it. A very nice drive from Munoz. Fastball, as somebody's bringing up, was not at his best. And, yeah, Sushi Jude, he's one of the most authentic people, one of the nicest people that I've met in my time doing this as well.

Just a completely classy dude who didn't deserve that, man. Did not deserve that whatsoever. But a really nice job by him. Just a heads up, this is going to be a shorter video. It is 94 degrees where I'm at. I have no air conditioning. and there's not a whole heck of a lot to talk about anyway. This is a pretty simple one.

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Dumber gets just underneath one. Julio hits a pretty hard hit ground ball. But thankfully, Randy Steel's second and Josh Naylor, Josh Naylor just lines that. single, you get a 1-0 lead, and you're thinking, oh, off Dean Kramer, you got a chance to have a pretty good offensive day. And I want to be clear, Dean Kramer pitched well, and we've seen Dean Kramer have success at this league. He's a good chance to be a solid back-end starter, not for a great team, but for a good team. You've got to tip your hat to Kramer. He did well. Somebody literally just said that. You tip your hat to Kramer. He pitched fine. That doesn't mean the offense was good today. And there were some mischances here for sure. There were some pitches.

that probably should have been driven a little harder, right? There were some opportunities missed. I didn't love Julio. What happened with Julio? So he draws the walk and that's great to see, you know, I believe a five, six pitch watch. And doesn't swing in that pitch outside of the zone,

draws a couple throws over. You don't have to go if you have a couple of runners over, right? You're like, or excuse me, that you know the disengagement is dropped. Sorry, what I just said there, but absolutely no. since. But you know what I'm saying now. You don't have to go. It's not a rule. You got to get a better jump there. You got to get a better jump or just not go. And a really nice throw by Adley Retchman. I didn't love that. Individually, offensively, I thought actually Julio had a good game.

He reaches twice. But again, glad that that didn't end up hurting them too much. Naler with the big RBI just missed on a couple. Big Dumper just missed on a couple. The only only thing, you know, guy who doesn't get a hit today actually is Gino, two guys, Gino and Cole Young. Col Young had kind of a tough day at the play today, but made a nice defensive play, turning to double play. It wasn't a good offensive game, and they're going to have to play better offensively if they're going to win this division, right? But I also kind of love that you win a game like this. This is a complementary 2024 game, because while 2024 was a disappointment, there were a lot of these one nothing, two nothing wins, where you're pitching just dominated and carried you.

It's okay that that happens. We don't want too many of them because this team has to score runs if they are going to be the division champion. This team has to score runs. That's an obvious point. You literally can't outwin a baseball game without scoring a run. You also can't lose a game if you give up zero. So you saw both today.

He scored one and you gave up zero. You know, it's okay. It's not the end of the world, but all I can do is react to this game, right? That's what we are paid to do. I believe it's $6,000 a game. I get how fun would that be. The offense wasn't good enough today. I expect more.

I expect more. And while I will tip my cap to Kramer, I will also say that there were missed opportunities. There were some pitches that should have been clobbered, that they didn't take advantage of them. Just haven't, did not take. advantage of them. But I'm kind of glad that a game like this happens that you win. Obviously, you want to win. But it's kind of nice in a game where you don't play your best. You get a win to start a massive road trip. Massive. Real quick, it is 621 Pacific Time. I am checking on some scores in games that involve the Seattle Mariners. The Yankees are winning five to one. Blue Jays,

That's Mariner relevant-ish. 4-1 Blue Jays, tigers and white socks are tied at zero. Rangers are leading the Diamondbacks, 2-1. Is there anything? Oh, right, right, right. Currently 2-0 Boston in the top of the fourth. So if that result holds, the Seattle Mariners will be tied with the Houston Astros for the division lead with exactly, exactly,

42 games left to be played. I don't know why I said exactly, but I'm not wrong. This is going to be fun. So you're going to want to make sure you hit like and subscribe so that we can talk about this and you can know exactly when we go live. Do believe my buddy Anders will be back tomorrow.

Good start to this trip. Good start to this trip. A flawed game for sure. But this is a good win. And I had fun talking about it for 14 minutes and 41, two, three, four, five. Thanks, everybody. See you soon.