Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - MARINERS POSTCAST: Seattle Mariners THROW A GAME AWAY vs Chicago White Sox

Episode Date: May 20, 2026

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This is the Mariners Postcast. Your instant game reaction for the Seattle Mariners. Part of the locked on podcast network, your team every day. Where do I even start with this one? Welcome to the Mariners Postcast. My name's Anderson Hurst. The Mariners lose two to one to the Chicago White Sox. And if you look at the box score and see the Mariners lose two to one,

they get one hit. Yeah, you'll probably think the offense is the main reason you lost this game. And honestly, you're probably right in thinking that. But that's not the most frustrating part of this game. The most frustrating part of this game is the manager of the Seattle Mariners. If you were watching this game and you're a fan of offense, this game wasn't for you. If you're a fan of elite pitching, for the most part, this game was. for you. If you're a fan of good decision-making by the Mariners and their manager, this game

wasn't for you. I'm sorry. And if you are a fan of Mariner wins, this game wasn't for you, because they lost, two to one. A waste. It was a throwaway. And a team that, frankly, doesn't act like it's being serious right now. It doesn't act like a team that, that wants to be mentioned with the better teams in baseball. If you're doing all this with the piggybacking and, you know, at first it looked like it was going to work out okay. And then, you know, we'll get to that in a little bit. But the Dan Wilson part of all this is,

the thing with doing something that really has never been, done before in baseball, especially like this, where you are going to have to have your finger on the pulse as much as possible and know when exactly to take a pitcher out of a game, let alone when you can take a picture out of the game. Know the rule, all right? It would be nice to have a manager that knows the rules of the game. But if you're going to do this experiment, And again, I don't think it's a terrible idea. But if you're going to do this experiment with the piggybacking, you got to have someone that can execute and actually knows what they're flipping doing out there.

I mean, What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing? I do not know. Before we get to that, let's start with Bryce Miller. Fantastic today. Another great outing from him.

He was pissed when he came out. and I would be two. Gets five and two thirds and then has a guy on second base for Murakami. I don't hate the decision to go to Ferrer in that moment. I think you're trying to be as careful as possible with Bryce, first of all, it's just a second start back from the injured list. And it's Murakami, and I trust for, I trust forrear more in that situation than I do, Bryce Miller. And that's really all I care about. And that's the thing that matters most. And he did the job.

Really looked really good, by the way. Then Luis Castillo comes in, strikes out the side in order in the seventh inning. Then the eighth inning, kind of a little shaky, but still looks pretty good with a couple guys on base, gets out of it, does his job, 41 pitches. And then the reality comes that they're not warming up Munoz and having him ready for the ninth inning. They are going back to Luis Castillo. And before we get all in on Dan Wilson on this one, I think this is one of the few instances where a decision from above his head was made. I'm just inferring.

I have no insight information regarding that. But it seems to me like their goal was to get at least 50 pitches from Luis Castillo and 50 pitches from Bryce Miller. Again, a team, an unsurious team. If anyone who's seen succession, you people are unserious people. And if you're willing to throw away a win for doing that, that tells you everything you need to know right there about where the priorities lie within this organization. We were sold that we were going for the World Series this year.

And you could have easily come out and said, hey, look, our office. offense wasn't doing it tonight. Normally we would have liked Castillo to get the full end of the game, but it was 1-0. He had done his job. We needed to go to Munoz in that situation. And I don't think anyone would have questioned it. But now we're sitting here with a loss.

And who knows, Munoz might have still screwed it up in that instance. But the stats say, relievers when they come in for a clean inning have a much higher likelihood that they have success. So I don't know, man. It just too many times with whoever's making the decisions. I'm just going to say it's Dan Wilson because we have to assume unless we hear otherwise that it's the manager of the Seattle manager that's making these decisions. Too many times it just feels like he's blindfolding himself and third.

throwing darts, and then whatever it lands on, that's the decision that he's making. Small part of the game. Sixth inning, Connor Joe's at the plate with two outs, Ritey's in. I don't hate not pinch hitting him, but I would have preferred to go to Luke Rayleigh or Dom Kanzone in that situation with the Ritee in. I think there was a guy on second base as well. But the worst one was when Rob Reff Snyder comes in and the bottom of the eighth, and what are we waiting for here?

What are we waiting for? This is beyond my comprehension about what we're doing here. Because for the longest time, when Luke Riley and Dom Kahn's own started the game, then when they, whoever was facing the Mariners would bring in a lefty, Dan Wilson would have the instant hook and take, Luke Rayleigh and Domkan zone out of the game in like the sixth or seventh inning. And then you'd have to face, you'd have to have Rob Reff Snyder, Conner, Joe, and or Conor Joe,

face elite, bullpen arms later in the game. So then kind of they correct themselves, but in this case, they correct themselves for the wrong people. They correct themselves to keep Connor Joe and Rob Reff Snyder in the game. How stupid. Can you get? And not only that, but the whole thing about Mariners and their platoons is that it's one side that they suck against. It's the lefties. And that's why they didn't get anything against Anthony flipping K for the second time.

It's one side, right? So if you do bring in Luke Rayleigh to face the righty and then they bring in the lefty, you're forcing them to burn a left-handed reliever. They don't get to use that later in the game, right? So say you get to that point where you are later in the game and you have Luke Rayleigh, they've already burned their left-handed reliever. It's really easy. It's not that hard. That one, there's no explanation for it.

The whole piggybacking situation, I don't know, man. Like, I really don't know how Dan Wilson is going to explain this one because it's so frustrating how the Mariners continue to find ways to lose games. And it's wasting good performances like that of Bryce Miller tonight. It's funny because, you know, when you get one hit, you would think that'd be the main complaint in a loss. That's not the case tonight. You threw away a winnable game where you actually pitched pretty dang well for the majority

of this game. You just don't know how to make decisions. don't. And it's, frankly, it's the manager that is preventing the Mariners from winning baseball games right now, especially tonight. But we do have to talk about the offense and missed opportunities. So let's come back, chat about that, and then we'll get to our unsung hero, villain, moment, whatever I can think of. You guys can mention in the chat something that maybe I haven't mentioned yet. But let's breathe for a second. give you some sponsorships and then we'll come back and, you know, rail this offense a little bit because it wasn't very good today either. All coming up next after a Mariners lost on the Mariners Postcast here on Locked on Mariners. ED is way more common than most guys think millions of guys deal with it at some point, and that's exactly why Hems offers a straightforward way to handle it.

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Download the GameTime app today. Welcome back to the Mariners Postcast, Anderson Hurst here, attempting to describe another Mariner's loss. I'm starting to run out of words because I believe this was in the cards for the Mariners to win this game. It really was, even with just the one hit, but we have to talk about the offense, guys.

Julio's the only one that gets a hit tonight. Ref Snyder's 0 for 4. He now is a below 400 OPS, and he's leading off against left end of pitching. When's that experiment going to be done? 109 average, by the way. 109 with a 381, not average, not slugging, not on base percentage, a 381 OPS.

Yeah, not good. Roserana O for three. Naylor O for three gets a walk. Would have liked to see Nailer make that play with Munoz on the mound in the ninth inning. It's just this defense isn't good. and I did see some positive seeing Colt Emerson play at shortstop, and I had way more confidence when the ball was hit to him that he would make a play, unlike when J.P. Crawford is out there.

But Naylor's range is not ideal either, is what it is. Wisdom 0 for 3 with an RBI gets the, I can't remember. It was a force out. It was a ground out that ended up getting Seattle's run. they had the bases loaded in the bottom of the first inning, and they get one run out of it on a ground out from Patrick Wisdom. So yeah, Connor Joe, O for two with a K and a walk. Garver O for two with a K and a walk.

Cole Young, O for two, Emerson O for two. It just, I'm so tired of the Anthony K's of the world being dominant, somehow against lineups like the Mariners, and he wasn't even dominant. Like the first inning, you had him on the rope. There's so many times where it feels like the Mariners are breaking out offensively. They string a couple good at bats together. It doesn't even have to be hits. And then whatever happened, you get one run out of it,

and you don't get anything close to that again, because you don't make adjustments. and the pitchers do, believe it or not. The other team makes adjustments, guys. It's so mind-numbingly stupid about this baseball team is right now. I'm sorry, I don't have the superlatives for this right now, guys, because I just, I'm tired of having the same conversation over and over again. You're a team that is incredibly inconsistent offensively.

You're a team that's injured. You're a team that has a manager that's holding you back. You're a team that is very bad defensively. And again, your manager doesn't even use the pieces that you have in the right way. I think the bullpen's actually been fine, but they're not being used correctly. So their results aren't happening because it's a whole domino effect, guys. I just, this is a new low for me because I know getting swept by the Padres. And this is just your evening the series now with the White Sox.

And the White Sox have been hot and all that stuff. But in terms of how you lost this game, this is a new low. Because it, you got to find ways to win those games, man. And again, I know you get one hit and you can't blame everything on the, the piggyback and the manager decisions and the ninth inning. But it was there for the taking. It was there. And you weren't able to do it. I guess I'm going to try and come back and explain another one tomorrow.

We do have Emerson Hancock on the mound against Sean Burke. Finally, we face a righty, so maybe the Mariners' bats will show up a little bit. But I'm just tired of having the same conversation, guys. And it's really just not ideal. All right. We'll talk to you guys tomorrow. Mariners drop to 23 and 27 on the season after a 2-1 loss. as you can tell I'm exhausted

but I appreciate everyone who are here enjoying my misery hopefully you are suffering along with me and if not good for you because you know this team just gets to me a little bit sometimes

all right we'll talk to you guys tomorrow have a good one it is a 110 for actually my apologies I am tired tomorrow day game.

No post. Actually, you know what? I will do a postcast tomorrow. It's going to be tough for me to swing. But I think I will. I'll mention it on Twitter. If we end up being able to, I'll let you guys know. But as of now, plan on probably having a postcast.

But if not, you can catch Ty and Colby right after the game. We'll talk to you guys next time. Go, Mariners.