Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners REGRESS on offense in loss to Minnesota Twins

Episode Date: June 26, 2025

Christopher Crawford breaks down a 2-0 loss to the Minnesota Twins. George Kirby pitched well, but a run allowed in the sixth was 'enough' to pick up the loss. The offense was awful, and it's both credit to Joe Ryan and insult to the hitting in a game where they were overmatched. They still get a shot to win the series Thursday. 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. Ha! The worst part about this job, and I love this job, to be clear. But the worst part about this job is that I have to ignore how good this offense has been for the last five games. I believe it's five. Yeah, five.

And just dunk on it. The NBA draft is happening right now. So we've got to dunk on this Mariners offense. Mariners lose two nothing to the Minnesota Twins. They still lead the series two games to one. But this was an ugly offensive effort. My name is Christopher Crawford hosting today. Anders is enjoying some much deserved time off.

We're going to talk about a really strong start from George Kirby. an inept offensive efforts, one that we have seen all too many times from the Seattle Mariners, but admittedly, not a ton lately. And we'll talk about an unsung villain. There's a few candidates for this game. But there's one person in particular that I keep coming back to. Just for those unfamiliar, we go live every single Seattle Mariner game. Well, we go live after every single Seattle Mariner game.

to talk about the highs, the lows, and everything in between. Make sure you're staying tuned for Ty and Colby. They do the Daily Show and they do a fantastic job. We sure would appreciate you hitting like. We sure would appreciate you subscribing if you haven't yet. But let's start with George Kirby because I thought George Kirby pitched exceptionally today and deserved better than the result he gets. Six innings, three hits, one run, one walk, just the three strikeouts.

but I thought this was the best command that I have seen from George Kirby so far. Maybe outside of that 14 strikeout effort, so we'll take that away. It was certainly an improvement on what we've seen for the overwhelming majority of George Kirby starts and deserved better. Now, let's just get this out of the way. Six innings, 90 pitches. Should George Kirby have pitched the seventh inning? and my good buddy Anders,

taking a little bit of a break from enjoying life, text me and ask me the same question. I will tell you this. This is just my personal opinion, just the way I saw things. I didn't have an issue with it. I thought they were starting to get to him in the sixth inning, and I didn't have a problem with him coming out.

It's certainly not the reason they lost the game either. You know, Eduardo Vizardo gives up that home run. And, you know, maybe you're managing a little different or you're attacking offensively a little bit differently. But I think that you can argue either way. I wouldn't have had an issue with him coming in, but he was getting hit hard in the sixth inning. Buxton got one,

the RBI to drive in Buxton was a hard hit ball through the middle. Would I have hated him pitching the seventh inning? No, but I don't hate it. I don't hate what the decision making, I don't hate the process, excuse me, of the decision-making of having him pitch. And, you know, Eduardo Bizarro gives up that home run.

It wasn't a bad pitch. You know, it was middle, but it was on the outer part of the plate, and Cody Clemens showed off some pop. Showed off some pop, took that ball out to left field, and he pitched well outside of that. And Ward Bizarro was tough to get too mad at him.

He's been a really solid part of the Seattle Mariner bullpen. And a nice job from Trent Thornton as well, one of his better outings, I think we've seen since returning from the injured, list still has that ugly 6.080 RA. It's going to take a while for him, too. And as Brian points out, you know, the pitching was fine today. It's very hard to win when you score zero runs. Very difficult. But just back to Kirby, this was encouraging. This was an encouraging outing from Kirby that reminded me of not that 14 strikeout effort. We're just not going to see a lot of those type of

games from George Kirby or any other starter. But it's just the most I've seen him look like the 2024 version. And that's what we want, right? We want the 2024, the 2023 version would be the absolute best. But this was an encouraging outing. He had them off balance for most of the game. Sixth inning things start to fall apart a little bit. Byron Buxton is just an absolute wagon. You're not going to keep him off base for very long. And then Willie Castro just hates the Seattle Mariners. Willie Castro just hates the Seattle Mariners. There was a lot of talk about Jerry Depoto potentially trading for Willie Castro.

He should have done it just so he couldn't have faced the merits. That's absolutely the only reason why he's kidding against him. Now, Willie Castro is a solid player. Was just dealing with some injury stuff. And by the way, really appreciate everybody who's coming out. Sorry if I'm not getting to everybody's comments today. I'm still working on being comfortable, launching the stuff that we do in this show.

Those of you who are familiar with how I used to do things, know that it was very bare bones. There's a lot of fancy stuff here because, you know, Lockdown is a much better company than the company that I was working for, aka myself. But I thought the pitching was good tonight. You know, Bizarro gives up the home run. Kirby gives up that run in the sixth inning,

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All right, let's talk about this offense. Oh, oh, and look, it's hard to get too mad at an offense that is, I believe somebody brought up, they've scored like 50 runs over the first five games. Yeah, it's obviously his, as I know Victor T, can play first. It's obvious Cal's fault for not hitting home runs today. That's selfish man. He should be homering every single game. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And Matthew, that's really well put. The opposite of arousal is right. This mariner offense stunk today. And it wasn't just one player. It was the entire offense. Two guys get on twice. Julio gets a hit. And, you know,

it counts in his speed like Carlos Correa said, nope. Not even going to try to make. that throw. And he gets hit by a pitch. I was extremely upset. He got hit by a pitch for a lot of reasons. The biggest one being that he was hit by a pitch on a three two pitch so he didn't walk. So it hurts his walk rates. And, you know, I think this is an interesting point. I saw a couple of you people bring this up that Chenet says they look tired. Maybe. Maybe like you're playing on a long road trip without a day off, and your offense maybe just was a little bit exhausted. Now, I also want to give some credit to Joe Ryan as well. Joe Ryan's a very solid pitcher, a ERA of 2.86 now, six innings, three hits, eight strikeouts. He's a good one. He's the best pitcher that they faced in this

road trip by far. That doesn't completely excuse the offensive effort, though, right? There was just so little traffic, and the few times that they did have traffic, they just didn't really have a shot. They end up going 0 for 3 with runners in scoring position. Palanco O for one, Mastroboni over one, and Big Dumber, O for one as well. But all of these guys struggle. Like, Randy Orozarena gets on twice, gets caught stealing for the first time. I didn't mind him running there. Christian Vasquez is a fantastic defensive catcher. Julio should have been caught stealing as well. Ends up being safe because Carlos Correa doesn't make a play he normally he makes. Miles Mastroponi was really bad. Donovan Slano had his worst offensive game in a while.

Luke Rayleigh in particular struggled. And I thought about going with Luke Rayleigh. I thought about going with him as my unsung villain for today. But I hate doing this. And I could have gone with Big Dumpur as well. He goes 0 for four with three strikeouts. One of those strikeouts shouldn't happen. after Julio walked slash got hit because it was a three two pitch. I'm counting it as a walk for him. Nobody else will, but I will. After that three two pitch that walks Julio, Big Dumber does an excellent job laying off a pitch.

That was clearly a ball. And folks, I could talk about it every game. Those of you who are familiar with my work know that I want to talk about it every game. The umpiring tonight behind the plate was pathetic. pathetic. And the sooner we get them robots, the sooner, the sooner I feel better. The sooner I feel better because these guys just aren't it. And it's not even their fault. We have a system that is created to help these guys. Let's do it. Let's do it. And I won't go quite this far. Dinkbud says that the strike three could have blown the whole game honestly.

it certainly didn't help because you got runners on first and second with one out and how much better are you feeling, right? Then Jorge Polanco lines out and then you got Randy who I think got a hit that next at bat. I could be wrong, but give us the challenges. Give us the ability to, you know, and the reason why we don't have the challenges is twofold. It's that the umpires have too much power. And number two, don't worry about the adding of length of games. I don't care. I don't care.

And Sushi Dude brings up, I agree, the umpires suck, but I don't like the idea of getting rid of them. We're not getting rid of them. To be fair, we're not just completely automizing. We are putting people in a better position. You still need umpires at first base, second base, third base. You can even have them behind home plate if you want. But you've got to have a challenge system.

You've got to have a challenge system. Cal looked really mad, as somebody brings up as well. Cal looked extremely mad. Okay, my unsung villain for tonight, though, J.P. Crawford was awful. Easily the worst offensive game I have seen from Crawford in a long time. And it just goes to show you that when they go, we have Julio, J.P., Big Dumpur, and Jorge Polanco combined to go

one for 14 with two, three, six, seven, strikeouts, it just doesn't work. It just doesn't work. You're relying on those guys so much. And to be fair, J.P. Crawford made a couple of nice defensive plays. Not enough. Not enough to overcome with the fact that, and you know what, if you want to go with the home playtime buyer being the unsung villain, as a few of you have, that's totally

fair as well. But goodness gracious. just a really rough game from him. And you could go with the entire offense. Now, do I completely ignore what happened over the previous five games? Absolutely not. But here's my thing that I ultimately come down to with this offense. And as Dankwood brings up, they can still get three or four tomorrow with a win.

Hopefully that game gets played. Apparently, there's going to be some weather issues. I was honestly a little shocked this game got in today. It was just absolutely, you know, wedding rain. There's the nice way to put it. The thing I see with this offense is I see the ceiling. We've seen the ceiling and it's a high ceiling. There's no doubt.

There's no doubt that the ceiling of this offense is extremely high. We also know the floor of this offense is pretty flippant low, right? We've seen what it can be at its worst. And do you have to give credit to Joe Ryan? And yes, do you have to note that if you score 50 runs over five games or whatever the heck the total is, that you're going to have some downtrodden offensive efforts to? Yes. But we've seen it a lot.

We've seen this movie over and over and over again. Ha, this was disappointing. This was disappointing and disappointing doesn't mean that it's devastating. It doesn't mean that they are in trouble. It just means that you watch this offense sometimes and you wonder if they can be consistent enough to be a true title contender. And I think this is a great point here for my buddy, Brian.

The trade deadline should be all about raising the floor of this team. That's perfectly said because we know the ceiling. We know the ceiling because of how good big dumper has been, how well-rounded of a game. Julio gives you J.P. Crawford, even though he's my unsung villain tonight, has been a fantastic player. I was just talking to a buddy.

They're on pace to have three players finished with over six wins according to one as above replacement. Once the last time you could say that about a Mariner team? And Randy Rose Arena, depending on what service you're using, is right in that four to five-one range two. But it's the drop after that.

it's the drop after that. And today we saw that these other guys just can't carry. Cary is maybe too strong of a word, but can't supplement this offense when those guys aren't playing well. Bummer. I will be back tomorrow, assuming there is a game. Again, we really appreciate all of the views. We appreciate the likes. We appreciate you guys subscribing.

I've had a blast doing this. I miss my buddy Anders, of course. But it's a little nostalgic for those of you who know what I used to do. So that's been fun. What's not fun is talking about another zero. My grandma, I'm going to call her today and she's going to be just furious. She hates these zeros. But I love you guys.

And hopefully they score a bunch of runs tomorrow and we can forget about this one. Right. Right.