Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners take UNACCEPTABLE series loss to Baltimore Orioles

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

Chris Crawford looks at the third game between the Baltimore Orioles and Seattle Mariners and a pretty significant loss, all things considered. Logan Evans got away with it for three innings before it came crashing. The offense was terrible over the first five innings. Rain is stupid.  Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors! 5-Hour ENERGYTee up that trip! Enter for a chance to win a dream golf trip for two to any golf tournament* in the USA. Visit 5HEWIN.com for full rules and entry. No purchase necessary. Excludes the Master’s tournament. Ends October 31, 2025. OpenPhoneStreamline and scale your customer communications with OpenPhone. Get 20% off your first 6 months at www.openphone.com/lockedonmlb 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. FanDuelToday's episode is brought to you by FanDuel. Football season is around the corner, visit the FanDuel App today and start planning your futures bets now. 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. Just look at the show notes. Just look at them. That's all we have to say. That's all we have to say. No, thank you.

Nope. Mariners lose five to three. They fall to whatever their record. is. I guess I should know that just because, you know, it's that time, 67 and 55. And they lose two of three to the Baltimore Orioles. My name is Chris Crawford. Thank you so much for joining us on the Seattle Mariner Postcast, usually joined by my buddy Anders. Anders has other stuff going on. So he's going to be taking care of that. And I'm going to be taking care of what will be assuredly the shortest, the shortest by far locked on Mariners postcast.

We'll talk about Logan Evans. We'll talk about a Julio Homer. We'll talk about how weather is stupid. But let's just get this out of the way. This results unacceptable. It's unacceptable to lose two of three to the Baltimore Orioles right now. There are a lot of factors that play into why you lose two of three. Give some credit to the Baltimore starters.

They all pitched well. The Mariners also made those starters look good in the process, right? Like, Tomoyoki Sagano is a solid back-end starter who should not be. throwing five and a third innings of scoreless baseball. Dean Kramer is a solid back-end starter who shouldn't be throwing eight innings of one-run baseball. Trevor Rogers is the one that's kind of acceptable here. And I know this is more Ty and Colby. And by the way, make sure you're subscribed so you can get Ty and Colby for their, we do the game postcasts and they do the bigger picture stuff. And they take care of some game stuff too. They do a great job at what they

do. We like to think we do a pretty good job, but we do too. So if you hit like and subscribe, I'd really appreciate it. But this is an unacceptable result. It's just not an, it's not acceptable. And, you know, you can talk about how games in April mean just as much as they do in June, July, August, yada, yada, yada, yada. Losses like this when you are so close to the finish line, oof, oof, it hurts. This hurts. Let's start with the start. Could probably finish with the start, to be honest. Logan Evans throws four innings. He gives up three runs. He walks four. He strikes out one. He was awful today. He was awful. And it's hard. It'd be easy to forget how bad he was because of the fact. Two things. Number one, there was such a long rain delay. And yes, the unsung villain today is the

umpires for letting that game go on for as long as it did when they needed to put that tarp down. and then taking the tarp off when there was another hour and a half of this. Garbage. Absolute garbage. And so that's an easy way to forget because his start was something like the 84-year Titanic Mame long ago. And then, you know, you look and you say, oh, but Chris, he shut the Orioles out for three innings. He was good. No, he freaking was not.

You guys know the term FAFO? I'm not going to explain what it is because I'll get in trouble. but he fafoed. He found out. He absolutely found out. Are my allowed to say fafoanders? Yeah, I think you are. Logan Evans was terrible.

Awful. What are we doing? He was terrible. This is kind of nice, by the way, that you get to do this since the game lasted two and a half hour rain or whatever the heck it was. Goodness, gracious. And I already gave my unsung villain. I don't know if you saw that or not. What was it? I haven't seen it.

It was the people letting the umpires letting that game go on for as long as they did while that monsoon was happening. And then having the tarp come off for reasons that still don't make any sense to me. But I was just explaining Anders. Logan Evans was awful. Give me your thoughts on what you saw today. We need Bryce Miller back ASAP. Yeah. Because I don't know.

I don't know if it's because of the additions you have on this team. with Josh Nader coming in with Aheini Suarez coming in and it makes your lineup look that much better. The holes in this team look that much bigger, whether it's Logan Evans in the back end of your starting rotation, whether it's Dylan Moore playing right field last night, whether it's Mitch Garver playing as often. I'm trying to get my hair off my little thing.

That's okay. Rush and brush in my, thank you, thank you. I do have a little bit of the Alabama frat guy going on right now, but that's okay. It's more compliment than insult for sure. I don't know. I take that as an insult personally.

I don't want to be a Chad. I'm not a Chad. So, I'm not a Chad. It's like, it's a Chad for men. It's a Stacy for women. It's just what it is.

So Logan Evans, just not good enough. We've talked about this with Emerson Hancock before, too. If you're going to be a pitch-to-contact guy, you can't walk people. He's just walking too many guys. He's giving up too much hard contact. And it's just not good enough against the lineup

who's bad right now. And like we can get into the offense a little bit. too, but I appreciate you have me on. We're going to do switch roles now. I like it. Let's just switch the roles. Let's talk specifically, because I promised everyone, this is going to be the shortest postcast in history.

It's pretty easy. Let's talk about the fourth inning, right? Because Logan Evans escapes. He has the, he can't keep getting away with us. Jesse thinks his name happened over and over and over. But after walking, I believe the third straight batter to lead off an inning, he ends up getting a you know gunner henderson fouls out and you're feeling kind of good uh ryan mount castle singles to left jordan westburgh gets to third and then Kobe mayo pops out and you're feeling

pretty good right right and then everything falls apart uh the air on uh Logan Evans I always call it a air a wild pitch that scores a run that have been a pass ball I kind of think it should have been a pass ball and we'll we'll talk about Mitch Garver in a second there too so that scores a run. He ends up walking Daniel Johnson. And then in a 1-0 game, let's talk about the double steal because the Seattle Mariners have

been a team that has gotten a lot of double steals go their way. This one did not go the Seattle Mariners way. Logan Evans, uh, not, none of this is Logan Evans' fault. The runner steals Mitch Garver throws to second base. Now, a lot

of people are complaining about that. I'll just give my thoughts right now, Anders. That's not my issue. My issue is what is Cole Young doing? Why is Cole Young in that rundown? And then does this guy have the worst arm of any infielder in baseball? That thing barely got to the plate, right? A good throw when you get them there. But these are the type of mistakes you can't make. Yeah. Did he throw it to Josh Naylor and then Josh Nailer and then Josh Nalo threw home? I can't remember. I thought I saw Cole Young making the throw home. You might be right. I was producing a radio show

at the time. It was happening. So I didn't, I wasn't able to watch as close to. So, you know what? And that's weird, because Josh Naylor usually has a really strong arm. So that's, but goodness gracious, man. Like, that was way too long of a rundown. You've got to just get that out. And you know what? If you're not going to get the runner at second base, so be

it. So freaking be it. Then you just, you say, you know what? You got there. It's fine. It's totally fine. Except the result, that's not good enough. There's three things that need to happen. Number one, you either need to stop the run from scoring. If you don't get an out, it's fine as you stop the run from scoring if he has to go back to third and the guy gets to first base, okay, or the second base.

That's fine. Number two, you get the out, either at home or at second or first base, wherever you want to do, right? The rundown situation. You got to at least get the out. Sure. And the best case scenario is if you get the out at home plate, so you, A, get the out and stop the run from scoring. None of those things happen.

You don't get an out and the guy scores. That is an unacceptable situation. And the thing that got me about the Cole Young thing was the fact of how leisurely he was just kind of like jog in, kind of throwing zero sense of urgency whatsoever. And it's kind of weird. Like, I don't know if he just didn't know that that's what they were trying to do. I felt like that was a pretty obvious situation to do that. And you could tell pretty early, like, oh, they're trying to steal home with the whole other stolen base as well. So I don't know if it was just a lack of awareness.

If it was he expected the guy, I don't know who was on third base at that time. I can't remember for Baltimore. But if he just didn't expect him to be as fast as he was. But yeah, it just wasn't played right at all by Cole Young or Josh Naylor with the throw. But it was mostly on Cole Young. I'm going to put him most of that. And to be fair on that play, as frustrating as it is, the next play is a single that would have score two runs anyway, right?

Yeah. So it kind of doesn't matter, but Anders, do you have your advertisements ready to go? Oh, I do not. If you pay it for two seconds, I can get it up. I'll just go solo dodo. You take a break, buddy. I'll do these advertisements because I am just- I might pop in if I feel like it, but go ahead.

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That's 50% off your first year at monarchmoney.com with code locked on MLB. Okay, let's talk about this offense because it just stunk out. Wait, there was offense today. Well, there was actually some. There was some. But for the first five and a half innings, not so much. Really the first five and a third innings. after the rain delay we get something good.

But you can't get beat up by Tomoyuki Sagano. I'm sorry. Like, he's not a horrible pitcher. You can't five and a third innings of one run baseball isn't good enough on this guy. And it wasn't like a bunch of swing and miss stuff. It was just a case where there was so much weak contact. The one positive from this game is Julio. Julio does hit that two run Homer.

And I got to be honest, Anders, when you get that two run homer, I start feeling pretty good. I started thinking, okay, you're back. This is a couple of bluepes in a blast situation. You've got to just one out. The Baltimore bullpen is terrible. Awful. You only get one run for the rest of the game. Yeah.

And to be honest, I'm going to go with my unsung villain now. It's going to be Josh Naylor. He had two opportunities. His last two at bats, both in the ninth inning. I believe the seventh inning as well. Right. Where in the seventh inning, he was the tying run at the plate, and he grounds into a weak ground ball, both against lefties.

so I don't necessarily fully fault him, not faulting him, but I just mean like he's not the best in those situations. He's not someone who's completely a platoon situation. We've seen him have success against lefties before, but he is better against righties. So I give him a little slack for that, but still. And then he has the situation, obviously, to end the game in the ninth inning as well. It just sucks because it felt like you had some momentum.

It was like, oh, okay, this is one of those situations where a bad team like Baltimore is going to lose this game when they should win, and a good team like Seattle is going to win this game when they should lose because that's just what good teams do. And we felt that way kind of about last night as well. Right. And it's just it just didn't happen. And unfortunately, there were some like weird, wonky things happening in this series for Baltimore, in Baltimore, I should say. Sure.

So you can easily just flush this one behind you and go forward. But I tend to think a little bit bigger picture on this. Number one, I sent to tweet out about their record in delays and it continues. today. I actually got one wrong because I forgot about the Detroit delay in the second game of that sweep. That's right. But they are now one in five in games with the delay and a lot of them are just terrible games. And the box score doesn't even begin to describe how bad these offensive games specifically look. There's a 10 to 1 Yankees loss in there. There's a 10 to 3 twins loss in there. There's a 1-0 White Sox loss in there. It's just it's a lot of bad baseball that happens to

come on days where there's delays. And I'm tired of seeing it, man. As someone who does these postcast shows with you and I kind of recognize when this stuff happens a lot, I'm seeing a trend when anything is off schedule, whether it's a rain delay, whether it's, you know, an injury that pops up. And we've seen it with the starting pitching as well when you get a bad call here and there. This team's ability to fight off adversity is not where I want it to be, especially for a team

kind of fighting for the AOS crown right now. I would totally agree with that. I have question marks. about the fight, right? And I have question marks about how prepared sometimes this team is. Not a question of talent. And individually, I can't like say, I'm concerned about this guy. I'm concerned about this guy.

I can't do that. But it's just kind of the collective, right? And there are just a pretty strong amount of examples that, and you notice these things when you do day-to-day shows, right? you notice these things, man, I just, I need this team to play better. Real quick on the bullpen, somebody mentioned they could be the unsung hero. I agree with four out of the five or three out of the four, excuse me. Carl Vargas just is not good.

He's just not a good pitcher. And I don't blame them for going to Carl Vargas in that situation. You're down three nothing. You need somebody to get through the fifth. Like, that's, um, that's fine, but he's got a pitch better, right? And he ends up really hurting you. You lose by two. Like, he has to be better.

better. Let's quickly talk about the ninth inning. That's good. So starts off great. Dominic Canzon, who has another solid game today, singles to right, Mitch Garver singles to center, and you're starting to feel, okay, things are going right. And then J.P. Crawford has a really poor bat and flies out to right. They pinch hit Big Dumpur, nice job by Big Dumber laying off some stuff that was kind of, you know, it could be tempted to swing at. So that was a really nice and bad for him. I wish honestly now that they didn't win,

I wish that would have been just a complete day off for him. But, you know, one plate appearances is totally fine. And then he gets off right after that. So, yeah. But man, and I love Randy or Rosarina something fierce. That at bat with the bases loaded, just awful. And he got a pitch to hit. It was, you know, it ends up being like a little bit middle in.

But that's the type of pitch on a change up. man, Randy or Rosa Rainer should be smack in that baseball. And unfortunately, it's a relatively hard hit ground ball where Jackson Holiday is confused that his shortstop doesn't know where the heck he is going. Man, it's, uh, that's a bad at bat. That's a bad at bat. And nailers a bad at the end of wasn't very good either. And they've got to be better.

They've just got to be better, Anders. Like, yeah, they've won eight straight. And yeah, yeah, they've won nine out of ten. Badger brings it up. God, it's two games. Why are so people just done instantly? They literally just won nine out of ten. Right. Okay. That's fair. But these games matter a lot too, man. And you've got to carry that over. And what the thing about that is, they have shown that they've been a very streaky baseball team, right? Like, I need to see the Seattle Mariners. Yeah. I mean, are you news? Yeah. And Jolly Badger is not. He knows how this goes. I appreciate the optimism, too. Yes.

you know, sometimes we need it. But today stunk. Today was a bad baseball game. And this is a poor result. They have to play better in New York. Yeah, this is something where, and this is why I was really looking forward to this road trip for them, because we saw all the good vibes coming out at the trade deadline. You know, your good guys, your offense is kind of firing on all cylinders.

You have your eight game winning streak. How are they going to perform when, you know, it's not going to be as controllable with your situation, especially in the rain delay here? I want to see that that was not just like a little stretch where you're like, oh, okay, things are going well. And then you kind of come back down to earth to what you really are. I want to see that that is what we really are. So that's kind of the where I gather more concern from this series more than I think

someone who's just, oh, yeah, it's just one bad series. You can kind of easily fix it. And this is also the worst team you're going to play on this road trip by a significant margin. So I have some concerns. I want to see that if they're come back and win the Mets series and then win the Philly series as well, this will be far behind in the rear view mirror. And here's the other thing, too, because you played so well in that homestand, because you went nine and one, right? A four and six road trip is not going to be, or excuse me, a three and

six road trip wouldn't be that bad. A four and five road trip, five and four would be delightful. Now, it gets a lot harder now because of what's happened here, right? But that's what that homestand did, right, is it gave them a little bit more to play with, you know, of course, you take a look at the standings, things are very, very tight. But the Astros are going to have issues at times. The Red Sox are going to have issues at times. Like there's got to be one of the worst teams in baseball the past month. Absolutely. Absolutely.

You're going to lose games. It's just I prefer you not lose games where you fail the eye test by such a significant margin. Please don't like. Please subscribe. We really appreciate it. Anders, I appreciate you being able to come in today, buddy. I really say, ha. Thank you, Rangelay, for giving me a chance to talk.

to another human being. Really, really appreciate it. We'll be back tomorrow of 405 first pitch. So that'll be better than these 10.05 starts. It seems like it was. You have another one next week, by the way. I just looked at it. Yeah, they do.

Yeah, they do. We're just not, we're not morning people, folks. We're not morning people. We like our evening games. But we'd also like the Seattle Mariners to start playing better.