Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners BLANKED in 1-0 LOSS to Los Angeles Angels

Episode Date: April 5, 2026

Chris Crawford looks at the Mariners' 1-0 loss to the Los Angeles Angels. Emerson Hancock was outstanding over 6 2/3 innings, and Eduard Bazardo was excellent. The offense was robbed of three homers by Jo Adell of all people, and the rest of the at-bats were lethartic at best. Baseball is weird. Everydayer Club If you never miss an episode, it’s time to make it official. Join the Locked On Everydayer Club and get ad-free audio, access to our members-only Discord, and more — all built for our most loyal fans. Click here to learn more and join your team’s community: https://lockedonpodcasts.com/everyday...   Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! Turbo Tax Intuit TurboTax now has in-person locations nationwide. You can meet face-to-face with a real tax expert, and your documents get uploaded straight to your TurboTax app on the spot.     Visit https://TurboTax.com/local to find a store near you and book your appointment today.   Robinhood You’re no longer just a spectator. Play by play. You decide. Trade Every Play with Robinhood. Now available across the U.S. Download the Robinhood app now to begin. Futures and cleared swaps trading involves significant risk and is not appropriate for everyone. Event contracts are offered by Robinhood Derivatives, LLC., a registered futures commission merchant and swap firm.   Indeed Listeners of this show get a $75 Sponsored Job Credit to help give your job the premium placement it deserves at http://Indeed.com/podcast   Gametime Today's episode is brought to you by Gametime. Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDON for $20 off your first purchase. Terms and conditions apply.   FanDuel Today's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. During the tournament FanDuel is offering $300 back in Bonus Bets every day for ten days. Visit https://FANDUEL.COM to get started — Play Your Game.   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. You know, if this was just a visual component, if it was just video, you would just see me shaking my head for the next 15 minutes. I might just do it anyway. Mariners lose one to nothing to the Los Angeles Angels. They have split the first two games of a three-game series.

They will go for a series win tomorrow. My name is Chris Crawford. Normally I'm joined by Anders Hurst. Anders has to cover the bad hockey team right now. I get to cover the baseball team that frustrates the ever-loving crap out of me. For those new, this is the Mariners Postcast. We go live after every single Seattle Mariner game, whether it's fun or not. And I'm just going to be 100% honest with you, tonight's not fun.

because we have to talk about a wasted starting performance, one of the luckiest starting performances I've seen from a pitching staff in a long time, one of the worst defensive players in all of baseball robbing three home runs and some really bad offense in between. Once again, my name is Chris Crawford. We always start with the start. And we will start with Emerson Hancock. Sorry, Emerson.

and oh, you deserved so much better than this. You were so much to get a loss is, you know, it's one of those reasons why the win-loss stat isn't taken seriously anymore. And I saw somebody bring up, a couple of people now bring up that this looked like a Felix type of start. Wasn't quite as dominant as a Felix start, but the results the same thing. And I'll be honest, the first inning was ugly. He only gives up the one run. He gives up a solo homer to Zach Nito, really good baseball player.

and of course it comes happening after the Angels Rob the first of their three home runs. But there was a lot of hard contact in that first inning. And I was pretty worried. I was pretty worried that this was going to be a version of the clunkers that we've seen from Emerson, Hancock. But a terrific defensive play from Cal Raleigh gets Hancock out of the inning. And from the second inning on, he was nails. I believe you're retired 14 straight at one point.

someone correct me if that's what it was or not. But he was awesome. The fastball velocity was good. A couple of 97 mile per hour pitches. The sweeper looked good. Are the angels the toughest team to pitch against? No, not even a little bit. Same thing for Wheater, he started against the Guardians. But he's made this interesting. And somebody else brought this up in the chat. By the way, appreciate everyone who's coming out for this. We really do appreciate all of the support that we've seen since we started doing this, but especially early on this year. He looked good. He's passed the eye test and then some in these first two starts.

You know, you take a look at some of that hard contact in the first inning and you see the worries with the Hancock. But then you watch the rest of that start and you say, that guy's a mid-rotation starter or better. We need to see it a larger sample size before we commit. to calling him a full-time mid-rotation guy. But man, he was good. He was really impressive today and deserved so much better in terms of a result.

And I know there's only one way you can go. There's only three possible results, right? No decision loss and win. Boy, did he deserve a win? Boy, did he deserve a win? But that is encouraging. The starting pitching has been nails. Logan Gilbert's been your worst starter.

and a couple of pitches go the other way, and Logan Gilbert has an ERA of like 1.5. I have not been concerned about the starting pitching what I've seen from them at all this year, at all. Even George Kirby, three-run Homer, where he shouldn't have been in the game. The starters have been really good.

I also thought I Ward Bizarro did a really nice job in relief. I was a little surprised to see Bizarro brought in, but it kind of made sense thinking about, you know, that they had some righties coming up after low and he did the job as he usually does the pitching has been really impressive feel really confident in what you are seeing right now from these starting pitchers the steam is frozen just like our bats well it's back now i apologize for that guys um we'll take a quick commercial break give some love to the sponsors and then we'll talk about this offense i i i the tournament is here one of the best times

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Indeed.com slash podcast. Terms and conditions apply. Need to hire. This is a job for Indeed. sponsored jobs. Welcome back to the Mariners Postcast. My name is Chris Crawford. Mariners lose one to nothing.

Oh, man. I don't even know what to say about this offensive effort because there was some good. It's hard for me to talk about good getting shut out by Jack flipping coconut whiz. I know that's not how you pronounce it. I'm sorry, Jack. But it's not an acceptable. result. Scoring zero runs in 18 regular innings against the Los Angeles, gosh damn

angels, is an unacceptable result. It's not okay. And I don't give a crap about the process. This is a daily recap show. And all we're going to talk about is what we watch and the results of what we watched. So yeah, the process looked okay. There were lots of hard contact, lots of hard contact, excuse me. There was a lot of it, but not good enough. Not good enough, man. You cannot get shut out by the Los Angeles Angels for 18 innings and need a zombie runner to get that first run across yesterday. There was some luck. If you believe the Seattle Mariners are cursed, tonight is a great example. I mean, you can just point straight to the scoreboard

and show who robbed those three home runs. Who robbed you? Because it wasn't Tori Hunter. It wasn't Willie Mays. It wasn't some sort of baseball deity. It was objectively one of the worst defensive players in baseball and Joe Adele. And he did it three. times. He got Cal in the first. He got Naylor in whatever inning. And he makes a leaping

MLB the show dive into the outfield for the third one. I don't know what to say. I don't know what to say. It was great to see Big Dumper. And by the way, Aaron Goldsmith, you got to be better there. You cannot guarantee that the ball's going over the fence in that situation. You got to be better. And I love Aaron Goldsmith. somebody brings up that you can't even do that in this show. I didn't think you could do it in the MLB, MLB, not the MLB, I'm sorry. I mean, tons of credit to Adele. But that's three solo homers.

Three runs today would have been me criticizing this offense. Jack, as bad as Adele has been defensively throughout his career, Kokanowitz has been objectively one of the worst MLB pitchers in baseball. And you struck out seven times against that dude today. And that's a very easy unsung villain to me today. Boy, you know what? I'm going to go with a tie, actually.

I guess it's not that easy. It's going to go to Dan Wilson for putting Luke Rayleigh in the leadoff spot. And Luke Rayleigh looking absolutely horse to steam free. Oh, no, it's back. Ha. It was pathetic. And with runners on first and second, just an absolutely anemic at bat again.

And look, Luke Rayleigh shone the pop to begin the year. Homer in three straight games. Hitting him leadoff there is incredibly reactionary. For a franchise that is basically the new trust the process. To hit Luke Rayleigh leadoff, I don't get it. A couple of real quick injury updates for you guys. Brendan Donovan is day-to-day with tightness in his groin. I bet you he's not in the lineup tomorrow,

but I think there is a chance he's going to come back. I will also point out the Mariners lie about injuries all the time. Another injury to update you guys on, Colt Emerson leaves his game in Tacoma after fouling a ball off his foot. He was able to continue the at-bat, but clearly was in a lot of pain, and he fouls that ball right off his foot and unable to continue defensively. good news is x-rays negative so it looks like he's avoided a significant injury there

I mean the long story short of this game is these are unacceptable results I don't care of Joe Adele would have robbed seven solo homers but maybe I do a little bit but hopefully you guys know what I mean why were they able to create such little action today and there were some Hulio had two hits to really bat at bats outside of that and the hits are dink and dunk. Big dumper robbed of the homer, of course. Rift of the abats stunk. Josh Naylor had a pretty good game. Randy or Rosarena goes one for four. Awful game from him. I think he left four guys on base early on. O for seven today with runners in

scoring position. The only guy who I'd say just had a really good offensive game today was J.P. Crawford. Double, walk, and should have had a homer. Oh, and Leo Rivas, by the way. This is getting old quick. Not a good player. Nice guy to have on your bench. Not a starting player on a team that should be competing for a World Series. Anders and I will be back tomorrow. We really appreciate it. I know it's a shorter one, but this is actually what we're supposed to have is 15 to 20 minutes shows. We just run along a lot because we can't shut up. I can't shut up. Let's just be honest here. We'd really appreciate if you hit like. We'd really appreciate if you hit subscribe tomorrow. I believe the pitching, well, let's just look, we've got a little bit of time.

The pitching matchup tomorrow is going to be Luis Castile versus Tyler Johnson, Ryan Johnson, excuse me, not the wide receiver. Ryan Johnson, someone you should Shalak. They probably won't. Happy Easter tomorrow for those who don't come out. We really appreciate it. I don't know if the Seattle Mariners are my favorite thing right now.