Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners SWEEP the Chicago White Sox

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

Anders and Chris break down the finale of a three-game series against the Chicago White Sox. Logan Gilbert didn't get deep -- again -- but pitched effectively. Outside of a Randy Arozarena homer, the offense has scuffled, Dom Canzone comes up clutch to get the SWEEP. Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! 5-Hour ENERGYTime to fuel up and turn it up with 5-hour ENERGY®️ Transfusion! Go to https://5hourenergy.com today and use my promo code LOCKEDONGOLF to receive 20% off your order. This offer is only valid until September 30th on one order and cannot be used with other promotions. The code is not good on subscription orders.   PrizePicksDownload the PrizePicks app today and use code LOCKEDONMLB to get $50 in lineups after you play your first $5 lineup.PrizePicks — Run Your Game.Click Link Here: https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/LO... Gameday HueLet your colors talk—because colors speak louder than words. Right now, you can get 15% off with code MLB15 at GamedayHue.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 ONE HUNDRED FIFTY 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. The Mariners don't play normal baseball games. Nope. It's just against their policy, I guess. Man, lots to talk about today. I asked Chris Crawford right before I went live.

Who who managed a worst baseball game? Will Venable or Dan Wilson? And I swear they were just trying to one-up each other for the entire game. Because there were some extremely questionable decisions from Dan Wilson. Yes, hindsight is 2020. We were going to talk about bunting us. We always do when it happens, you know, as the registered bunt hater of 2025, Anderson Hearst right here.

Chris Crawford, you are mostly. on the side of the bun hater group as well. But yeah, it's just, but then putting on Mitch Garver to get to Dom Canzon, I do not understand that whatsoever. But hey, we'll take it. That's why the White Sox are the White Sox. White Sox are going to white Sock, you know,

so Mariners win this one and they complete the sweep of the Chicago White Sox. What is that? Six of their last seven games, they have won. That's pretty dang good. and that's a W-4 in the column in their streak. And I believe the Astros play later tonight, are they today? I think they have the day off. It's a really light schedule today.

Okay, so the Mariners are now one and a half games back of the AL West, which is huge. You are more than within striking distance. Marin's Postcast here. We're going to talk about the sweep. We're going to talk about Dom-Kanzone. We're going to talk about Logan Gilbert, just throwing out another 20-25 version of a Logan Gilbert start.

but Chris Crawford, what are your thoughts? So I have a lot of them real quick. First of all, thank you for hosting for me yesterday. No problem at all. Miserable day. So my buddy Anders coming through and helping me out there was big. Number two, I saw Brian, you asked if we were taking a pee, why it took us so long. I have to thank Anders, because a little behind the scenes, we have to set up a bunch of stuff here.

I got almost every single thing wrong. So Anders had to fix all of the things that I did wrong there. So thanks again for that, Anders. Number three, I might have to retire this shirt. It's a really good shirt, but it kind of looks like I am the widest person in the world, and I am just not a great look for me. I know, let's just, this was a bizarre baseball game. It was a game that he kind of felt like the Mariners had control of it, you know,

from the get-go, you know, partially because who was pitching on both sides. And that's all due respect to Shane Smith, who pitched a good game today. And then it felt like the White Sox had a lot of control of this game, in part because of self-inflicted wounds. Self-inflicted wounds, to be sure, this is a great win. It doesn't look pretty, but these are the type of games that you look back on and you say, oh, they won that one. That's how they get to 10 games over 500.

That's how they're only a game and a half back of the division. That's how they're now three full games ahead of Texas. And you have the tiebreaker. You've got to be feeling great about that. this was a good win. This was a good win. It also could have a massive loss that we have to talk about as well. Because Josh Naylor leaving this game is bad. It's really, really bad. And we saw the Seattle Mariner depth today. What's the opposite of come through, right? Like, you get locked in your house is basically what the bench of the Seattle Mariners did today. But they get the job done. And you have a chance now,

this has been an excellent homestand. You have a chance to make it a superb homestand with these three games coming up. Yeah, I'm debating whether I want to do Logan Gilbert or the Josh Nader Injury first. We'll start with the start. Then we'll get into the Nader injury in a second. Logan Gilbert just seems like another 2025 Logan Gilbert start where he looks excellent for, you know, four innings. And then for some reason, his efficiency just isn't there.

get can barely get through five. Yeah. And the way this bullpen is right now, you need him to get through more than that, man. And I get it's a, he's a victim of his own expectations, right? You know, if you look at,

you know, mostly what he's done over the past month, it's been pretty good. But you just, I need more from him. I'm just sorry. I'm just going to say that right now. I need more from him.

Tell me if I'm wrong. I don't think you're wrong in terms of the quantity. You need more Logan Gilbert. quantity. The quality was great today. Now, I will say the one thing that for Logan Gilbert was, and it seems like his start was three hours ago, so I don't remember as much. But, you know, I will say the command wasn't there. He walks three. He throws the wild pitch as well. It wasn't his best in terms of command. The stuff was really good. But I want to see more efficiency, right? I want to see him not, because if he doesn't issue those three free presses, we're talking about at least six

inning, right? We're talking about a six inning game. And that matters here because the Mariners were relying on the very back of that bullpen at the very, very end of it, right? And we talked about this recently with someone else, like that you have to be able to get through these six inning starts. And, you know, Gilbert talked about it himself, that there's just not that, that ground ball pitch, right?

He doesn't have that. That's not how his arsenal's built. It's swing and miss stuff. It also helps his Godspeed brings up here. and Godspeed to the Chicago White Sox fan, by the way. He took advantage of a terrible lineup. He took advantage of a terrible baseball lineup. The two guys that end up scoring runs for the White Sox today are Brooks Baldwin and Michael Taylor, Jr.

We just need more efficiency. It's that simple. If he is more efficient, then we'll start seeing those seven innings. He still has not gone seven innings since the very first start of the season. So the stuff's great. The results will work, right? Five innings of one-run baseball will work. But we want to see Logan Gilbert get a little deeper. Yeah, I agree with you. I think it's not much more than that. It's not like there's any major, uh-oh,

is he still injured signs? No, it's just, I expect more from him. That's just it. And especially, like, the way his bullpen is built right now, you saw how much that can have an effect on you, right? If he goes one more inning, you're looking at a little bit better situation. for your bullpen to come in. So, yeah, I just, and I, I almost feel like he hasn't gone six plus. Like, he hasn't gone into the seventh inning very much, even either. I think he went six in a third, and there was the big, I'm going to look at that and make sure. Yeah, he went six and a third and had the 10 strikeouts against Milwaukee.

And I think they probably could have let him keep going, but they're being super careful with that guy, which I get, I get that you got to be careful with a guy who is coming off the type of injury that he has. Yeah. But if the Seattle Mariners are going to go deep into the postseason, I think Logan Gilbert has to start going deeper into games. Yeah, I completely agree with you. And you can say the same about George Kirby.

Same kind of similar sort of start last night as well. So, yeah, it's just those two are who I'm looking at in terms of starting pitching. Let's get into kind of the bigger story, but four extra innings. And that's Josh Nader leaving this game. It sucks. It sucks big time. because he not just for what he does like when he's at bat it's more you see and you see later in this game what this lineup looks like with even just one less like dude in it you start relying on

guys like dylan moore miles mastrophony Mitch garver and it's like that's what this lineup used to look like for a long period of this season and it was great when you didn't have to do that when you had the one through nine of, you know, Josh and Ehler being healthy. And now with question marks of whether that's going to be a long-term injury, it doesn't look good. Usually when I asked you, do you think this is going to be a long-term thing when it happened, when you have that wincing pain and on a swing, kind of a non-contact sort of situation, that's not a good sign. So, yeah, I'm not excited to hear about the prognosis.

Hopefully I get proven wrong, but yeah, what are your thoughts? the nailer injury. Oh, it could be devastating. And we'll find out, right? Like, we're, we're scouring the social media. I'm watching the Mariner reports, and I'll turn the volume up, and I'll mute my microphone if I see Dan Wilson talking to see exactly what happened. But, like, you know, it's, it's either back or oblique and hashtag not a doctor. But typically those are I-L stint stuff. That's typically what happens here. And even just a week without Josh Nailer, the way he's been playing the sport of baseball is just bad. It's bad. And the issue here is is that your guy that you're putting on at first base, what did you tell me Donovan Solano's

last at bat was before May 26th? May or sorry, no, May, July 26th. Sorry, I don't know. It was over two weeks of sitting on the bench, chilling. Yeah. And he looked awful, awful in his very one at bat. So you don't want to go too crazy. but at the same time, what a big difference it is. The whole thing is that you have this lengthened lineup, right? And on top of that, what Josh Naylor's done with the steals is so big, like that ability to get that extra base. I love my triple B stealing bases,

but it's also just about the fact that like, you're getting guys into runners and scoring position. You're making pitchers think now. You have to pay attention to Josh Naylor now. I really hope this is short term. I will be surprised if this is not an IL stint thing and it weakens the lineup considerably. But again, we will be sure.

And stay tuned for Ty and Colby tomorrow. I'm sure they will have a bunch of stuff on whatever happens, what their replacement should be. But Donovan Salon probably can't be your starting first baseman. Let me just say this right now. If Ben Williamson is healthy, that's something you've got to think about for the move up, right? And moving somebody to first base, right?

maybe you haven't Polanco. They're saying Naylor is day to day with shoulder soresness. Where are you seeing this? I've seen it. I'm saying he's day to day right now. So that's good. That's good. People lie about injuries all the time.

I'm not trying to be smirked good news here. But here's hoping that's all it is. If it's just soreness, then he gets a couple days off and you have him back in the lineup. So pray. Pray that is what Josh Neeler has. Yeah. And I'm going to biting my tongue to say what I want to say here, but I'm going to say it. It prolongs what should be happening. And that's DFA and Dylan Moore. Yeah, that's the thing. You can't now. Can't. You just can't because unfortunately, the versatility that not so great baseball player right now gives you is something that they're not going to get rid of, right? That's just not going to happen. I really do feel bad for

Donmore because I've never seen anything quite like this. Like, I've never seen a player have success that he did for half a season become this terrible. Yeah. For over half of his season now, well over it, not well over it, but over it. This is bad. This is really bad. Just real quick to get into it. We'll talk about the bullpen and all of that stuff. Um, the bench today was abhorrent. Just awful. Like Miles Master Bonney gets the bunt down and Josh Rojas apparently wants to give one more favor to the Seattle Mariners with a just atrocious throw.

Thanks, Joshy. Thank you. It was awful. Awful today. And taking out a player like Naylor, who I'm guessing is not going to be available Friday and probably not Saturday either, right? I almost guarantee he's going to go in. for testing.

That's not good. It's not good. The depth is being tested for sure. Yeah, a tough situation in terms of the roster for the merits. I just think this is exactly. You saw like where we were the last, you know, a week or so after the trade deadline. That's the ceiling of this roster, right? And when everyone is firing and everyone's healthy, that's what it looks like.

when one person is removed from that. You saw the massive difference that it makes. It's a complete, like, domino effect throughout the rest of the lineup. And you're having to rely on guys that should not be relied on. I'm sorry, they should not. So, yeah, it's a little frustrating. Let's not get too down in the weeds of the negativity. Though the marriage did just sweep the Chicago White Sox, believe it or not.

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in the eighth, the top of the eighth? No, they get the home run in the top of the seven. Okay, yes. Can I real quick? Carl's Vargas, high leverage, nope, no more. Absolutely not. No, Carl's Fathers can't pitch in high leverage situations. I'm sorry, it can't happen.

He's just not good enough. He's just not good enough. And look, Caleb Ferguson wasn't great. He doesn't give up any runs. And a good jump by Carlos Vargas to get that out. Should have been it. Seventh inning, eighth inning, ninth inning. That's reserved for your business.

big boys. That's reserved for your high leverage guys. Carlos Vargas can't be that. He cannot be that. Dan Wilson made a lot of mistakes today. That is one of them using Carlos Vargas in a high leverage situation. It can't happen. Yep. And they end up tying the game on that home run to make it two, two. Quick, quick shout out to Romani Rosarana. Doe home run. He gets his 23rd, I think. And that ties his career high. Good for him. Yeah. So I agree with you, Shane. or Chenet, excuse me, Vargas went up by five or down by five, either one. Yeah, at least for that situation. But let's go to the eighth inning because the Mariners threaten,

and it's a two-two tie game in this situation. And yeah, I just, I don't know what to make of this, so I'm going to just kind of leave it up to you. I'm just going to run through the sequence here. We got lead off Cal Raleigh walk, all right? Then Julio, single. So you got first and second, nobody out. then you pinch hit cole young for donovan salano okay then cole young sacrifice buntz uh to move cow to third

hulio to second then you pinch run miles master boney for cow raleigh with one out second and third and a eugenio sware is coming up to the plate he strikes out uh they intentionally walk hori polanco and then they get Garver to strike out, ending the threat for the Mariners in the eighth inning. What are your thoughts? So I didn't hate the – in fact, I liked the decision for Young to hit for Solano, by the way. I thought that was absolutely the right call. And I didn't really hate because it was the bottom of the eighth inning playing for one run there. I didn't really hate that decision.

So you're talking about the sackbunt. The sackbunt. Yeah. The only thing I didn't like about that decision, and I'll tell you, in real terms, time, my thought was, oh, well, now they're going to intentionally walk Suarez, right? Because they're going to want to pitch to Polanco, which, you know, we feel pretty confident in Polanco right now. So I like that. But what I also, and I mentioned it to Anders, I was thinking in my head about the potential intentional walk. But what I said was, boy, the only thing about a sackbunt here is when you have a guy

that strikes out as much as Suarez, it's risky, right? Well, I wanted Suarez. He strikes out. Okay. that's not my favorite the decision to pinch run mascrobony for rally is incompetent what are you doing like it's it's a runner on third it's not like cow raleigh is like a negative six on the 2080 scale for running he's not fast he can get home yeah and then you lose his bat for the rest of that game and i'm sorry even if cow ralee isn't hitting like the MVP candidate anymore I want him hitting more than Miles frickin' masquerbony, okay? I don't think that's a hot take. I don't think that's a hot take whatsoever.

I just don't get some of the decisions Wilson makes there. If you're pinch running there because there's a runner on second base and you want to get that guy home on a single, sure. That's totally understandable. When he's got to go 90 feet, he can get 90 feet, right? We saw a guy who was not that much faster. then Cal Raleigh score on the final play of the game, right, on a run from second base. If not, probably on the same speed.

How can certainly get there? Master Boney can score on a ground ball. Someone says, so can Cal Raleigh, right? Like, Master Boney is faster. Cool. Master Boney is also not so fast that you want to take away one of your best. And here's the other thing. What if Mitch Garver would have gotten hurt?

What are you doing then? Who's catching? You have Miles Master Boney catch? then too so you're taking a risk it just doesn't make any sense to me i hated that decision yeah i hated that decision um it's funny because i mentioned to you in the moment like you thought oh he's on second okay that's right 100% yeah um i that's and so i didn't even think anything of it but then what i saw master boney leading off of third base i just don't get it i don't get it um the time i would do that is if you're planning to lay one down like if you're going to be

doing a safety squeeze or something like that, sure. Yeah, then you really do want that faster guy there. It just doesn't make any sense. It's a failure in process and, oh, boy, was it a failure in results as well. Yeah, if you get first and second, nobody out, you should be scoring run, like, period. And this is a situation where you see the Mariners, with their current lineup construction before the nailer injury, they would be able to do that, I think, more often than not. I also think that tells you that right now

Palanco is better hit in Suarez and I love Villohenio Suarez. Probably my favorite mariner of all time, but it's both a good thing for Polanco that they have that much fear in him that they're willing to put him on base in that situation and he's in the zone right now. Suarez is not exactly, you know,

lighting it up since he's come to Seattle. Sure. No, it's been a struggle. I will give him a ton of credit. We'll talk about Domkins. zone in a second. But like, so getting scoring that run, like I mentioned, that was huge. But I just think he might be trying to do a little too much right now. I think he might be a little bit in his head. And also like everyone knows, Aeonea Suarez is a streaky hit.

Yes. Right. Like he is a guy when he's hot, he's hot. When he's not, he's not. And that is because he doesn't put the ball in play all the time, right? Like when you swing and miss a bunch, did you go through these lulls? You go through these issues. At some, point you got to consider moving making the move for polanco to hit ahead of him right yeah absolutely that's just something that you absolutely need to take into consideration um real quick just because i don't know if we have time to talk about it i actually think the bullpen pitched pretty well today i thought that matt brash did a nice job i thought that the bizardo did an excellent job i still am confused what the hell happened there let's talk about that the past ball in the 10th inning we so

Is it still considered wild pitch? I don't know if they changed that. No, it's still a wild pitch. There's three Seattle Mariners wild pitches. I can't remember the last time I saw three wild pitches. But so it sure looked to me, and Anders and I both had our volume off, that that ball hit the knob. The knob. It sure looked like it to me.

Then they confirmed that it didn't. I don't know how you confirm that for sure. I'd get Stan. I'd be fine if it's call stands. Like I'm still confused. And then Mitch Garver's just got to catch that freaking baseball, man. You have to catch that ball. You're a catcher.

Yeah. Got to catch. That's got to happen. I know it had a good amount of movement on it. But if you are behind the plate, you've got to make that play. At the very least, it can't get back past you. It's got a hit in front of you. Like get in front of it if you're not going to make that catch.

That's tough to do on that backside. But like, that's a play Mitch Garver has to make. It's so crazy. This feels so negative. They won this baseball game. Yeah, there's so many moments where it's like they should have. But there were so many 100%. Seth says that should have been an Aaron Garver.

That should absolutely be a past ball, right? Like that is the definition of a past ball to me. Man. It stinks too because Bizarro pitched outstanding. It did. Outstanding. Real quick, the throw from Julio, too, in that inning to keep the runner from getting to third.

That was massive. that was a absolute hose there too. Then you get the big strikeout. The decision to intentionally want Colson Montgomery, not a favorite of ours either. This was not a great managed game from Dan Wilson whatsoever, which is why it's awesome. They win, right?

Like those decisions, yeah, we want to see him make fewer mistakes when we're, as we move forward, right? But thank goodness those mistakes don't end up killing you, right? You end up winning this baseball game. as Trent says right here, at the end of the day, we're 1.5 back in hunting down the Astros because you win this baseball game. Yes.

A lot of luck involved in it. Who cares? Sometimes luck is better than good. And you know what luck always is? It's preparation meeting opportunity. And you sweep because the preparation there is, and the opportunity is winning those first two games. And then you get this one as well.

But boy, there were a lot of mistakes. This was a frustrating baseball game to win. Thank you, Dom. Yeah, and I want to give a quick shout out to two people, number one. Andres Munoz looked excellent in the nine inning. We were a little concerned about him last night. I know you were off, but I was like, all right, so what are the concerns about Munoz right now? Because he did not look great for like kind of the third straight time.

He ends up getting out of it fine. But today he looked excellent, super sharp. And then same with Jackson CoR, man. Jack McOar did a very nice job today. Gabe Spire was fantastic. Matt Brash, I know he gives up the two hits, but I thought his swing and miss stuff was as good as we've seen it.

A little lucky on one call. Sure. But I'm fine with that. I'm fine. I want to see strikeouts from Matt Brash. So I was super excited to see him have those type of results. Even Caleb Ferguson. The only guy reliever, I think, pitched poorly today was Vargas.

And it's just not a ball that you could, to Brooks freaking Baldwin, too. that's that's the other thing here but like outside why is that the first one you're using that's that's the thing i had no issue with going to vargas after fergus you know um i probably just would have left ferguson to finish that inning to be honest and then gone spire brash munios but they had other plans it it worked out technically it did work out but like i um overall i thought the bullpen was outstanding tonight yeah let's let we kind of buried the lead a little little bit. Let's get the Dom Canzon walk off. Yeah, that's that's so awesome to see. And again,

I don't know why you are intentionally walking Mitch Garver. I don't understand it whatsoever. I get the lefty, righty stuff. Sure. What? It's very much, if you've seen the Simpson softball episode where Mr. Burns pinch hits Homer Simpson for Daryl Strawberry because it's a lefty righty advantage thing. And yep, I've had eight home runs today. Mitch Garver was having a horrible day. the plate. Awful. And horribly. But man, oh man.

The fact that Dom Kanzone is even kind of competent against left-handed pitching. He's been fine. He's been good. It's huge. It's absolutely huge. And a very nice job on that single. You know, I still have like, can Dom Kanzone keep this up, right? Can't Dom Kanzone?

And that's just based on what I've seen from him in the past. I've seen flashes of gold, and I have seen moments where there was a reason the guy went back to AAA, right? There's that reason, too. His highs are high. His lows look awful. Yeah, absolutely. And that's not a surprising thing because he's a young player. But like, if you're Jerry DePoto, they're also like, this is the reason why I made that trait.

I knew we had something in this guy right here. And you know, Ryan Bliss has helped and Josh Rojas helped the Mariners a lot today. So great job in that trade. But I don't. just wonder if Dom Kanzone is a guy that you got to consider moving up in the lineup too. Doesn't matter because. Especially now with Nailer out. Now, with nail her out, you absolutely have to hit him higher, right?

Absolutely. And that was the other thing that I was going to mention a real quick complaint. Why is Mitch Garber hitting ahead of Dom Kanzone, right? I don't understand that at all. So there seems there seems to be a, I don't know whether it's like a comfort factor within, Wilson where he's very rigid in his willingness, willingness to make kind of even minuscule changes like lineup spots, right? He wants people to kind of get used to where they're at.

And sometimes it works out, right? Remember when Polanco was going through his awful stretch in May and June and we were like, why is he still in there? He kept throwing him in there. And now it's like, okay, like, I get it. You stuck with him and now he's kind of coming through for you. and maybe that's because you stuck with him. Like, who knows?

But Sinibon points out, seniority, that probably has something to do with it as well. I think that's the big thing, too, with Garver, is there is a certain level of respect that Wilson has for Garver. And it's not like Mitch Garver's just been completely unusual on year, but he's not a guy that I think should be getting at bats ahead of Dom Kanzone or J.P. Crawford at this point, right? Like, would Mitch Garver's in the lineup with your lineup,

if your full strength lineup, Mitch Garver should probably hit nice. He should be the last guy batting in your lineup. I don't care about the second lefty thing. I want him having fewer plate appearances than those guys that they have. Not a good game from him, but thankfully, thankfully it doesn't matter. You get this sweep. And they needed a sweep so bad, guys. It's been a while since they've pulled something like this off.

I think the last sweep they had was on the road. I know that. but I can't remember the last time they swept the team at home. Cannot remember the last time they swept the team at home. Especially, I mean, this 2020, 2025 iteration of Seattle Americans, they haven't gone on these big runs, right? It's been like win two, lose two, you know, win one, lose one. And like win a series, you lose a series, whatever.

But it's good to see that it seems like they're kind of getting over that. They're starting their kind of run. Hopefully the nailer injury doesn't necessarily derail that. because I think a run is necessary in order, if you want to catch the AOS, which I think should be the goal at this point in the year, you're going to need to go on like a 15 of 20 run. You're going to need to do that. So I don't necessarily think that's out of the picture at this point. They've won six of their last seven. So good start. Mariner sweep the White Sox. Just real quick, a couple people bringing up the Tigers. The Tigers was on the road. That was in Comerica. So the last week that they had at home was those, that three games against Detroit over the holiday weekend and 2001, nothing wins, but still counts.

So yeah, it's been a, been a month. Yeah, it has. And let's hope they can keep it going. Series against, who is it? They go on the road starting on tomorrow. No, they've still got three home games. It's the Eitro series. Yeah, it is.

I know we're going long. Yeah, we always do. Uh, the, uh, go to those games. Go to those games, man. These are big baseball games and it's a chance to give thanks to one of the greatest Seattle Mariners to ever play the game. So go to those games. Go enjoy those games against the race. And the rays aren't a great baseball team. This is a series that you absolutely should win. Um, but go go, go enjoy it. I'm telling you how to spend of money. Yeah. And, uh, I even say, said before the White Sox series, I was happy with two out of three. You get the sweep. Go get two out of three against the raise. And this is an awesome week. And this is an awesome week. So I think that's a huge kind of opportunity for the marriage to really establish themselves as a team to beat in the A.L. All right. We'll talk to you guys. Tomorrow.

640 First start Yes it is 640 tomorrow Brian Wu on the mound I want to say Guy should have No it's Castillo I believe

Yep it's Castillo Then Evans then Wu For those three games Okay sweet So Luis Castillo the Rock Let's get it rolling Hopefully it ends up Kind of working out

In the Mariners favor Over the weekend against the Rays Come in a little bit cold Mariners kind of on a hot streak. Let's continue those two trends in the right direction. Enjoy those games, as Chris said. I couldn't agree more. I think it's a perfect time to go check it out. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Thanks to listen to the Mariners Postcast. Last word, Chris Crawford.