Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - M's Get No-Hit For the Second Time in Two Weeks While the Host Fails to Come Up With a Clever Title

Episode Date: May 19, 2021

Yes, gang, the Mariners have been no-hit twice now, this season. D.C. talks about last night's game -- a gem turned in by Spencer Turnbull. Justin Dunn looked good for much of the game, but a couple things here and there spoiled his outing. As did the bullpen, who gave up three runs, and catcher Luis Torrens', whose poor defensive play may have led to another Tiger run. D.C. crunches some numbers to find out how worse than the average Major League catcher Torrens has been this year in regards to pitch handling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Ha, today on Locked-on Mariners, the host does his damnedest to try to be gracious after his team is no hit for the second time in two weeks. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Well, Kang, what can I say? At least the Ms are not the only team to get no hit twice this season. That counts are something, I suppose. Welcome to Locked-on Mariners. I am D.C. Lunar. You're somewhat frustrated host for the morning. This is Locked on Mariner's part of the Locked On Podcast Network.

I lost my play center for just a second. Please remember to download, rate, and follow this program on whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use. Ask your smart device to play Locked on Mariner's podcast or any program here on the Locked on Podcast Network. So simple to do. Just say, hey, smart device, play Locked on Mariner's podcast, play Locked on anything podcast. Probably play locked on Cracken podcast come the regular season. What am I talking about? This episode is definitely going to be on the short side this morning,

or at least the first segment is going to run short. About the best thing that can be said about last night's game is that it was under three hours. Spencer Turnbull did not allow a hit to the Seattle Mariners and walked only two. Jared Kellnick in the fourth inning and Jose Mormalejos leading off the ninth inning that drew the two bases on balls. Mr. Turnbull struck out nine, including Telegram Sam Haggertie, and Mitch Hanigur in the ninth,

Manninger's strikeout ended the game. And he was keeping the ball on the ground, too. Twelve outs were recorded on ground balls, including a force play hit into by Kelnick in the ninth inning. Twelve strikeouts, pardon me, twelve ground outs and nine strikeouts. That leaves just six outs, which were recorded on balls hit in the air. That is a recipe for success, ladies and gentlemen. But I'm honestly having trouble figuring out of Mr. Turnbull was that good last night, or if the Mariners were just that bad. Maybe it's a combination.

From what I saw on the TV coverage, Mr. Turnbull looked somewhat getable. I'm not saying that the M's had an opportunity to open up a can of whoop ass and drive him out of the game in the fourth inning. I'm saying that his stuff was the type of stuff against which you can typically scratch out a hit here and there, and the M's just didn't do that. He looked good, don't get me wrong. Also, to be fair, I had to listen to the second half of the ballgame on the radio, so maybe I'm missing something.

I'm not quite sure. The M's came close to a hit in the seventh inning. Mitch Hanigur hit a hot shot to Jamie or Candelario. His name is another one I have trouble with, not necessarily Candelario, but the first name. Anyways, Candelario is their third baseman, and he made a spectacular play to keep the no-hitter alive. It was a very low line drive that hit the ground and skipped up toward Candelario's head.

He stayed with it. He snared it and made the throw to first base. Very impressive. That play right there is why they call third base the hot corner. But in essence, that was it for the Mariners. Like Mr. Mize the previous night, Mr. Turnbull utilized a variety of pitches to put the Mariners away. He recorded groundouts on five different pitches. His foreseamer, his change, curveball, his sinker, and his slider, and recorded strikeouts with three, his four-seamers, slider, and curve. He used all of his pitches very effectively. I don't know what else I can say, gang. It is frustrating, especially against a pitcher who didn't appear to be overly dominant, but maybe that makes him as good as he can be. A pitcher has a better chance in success if he

uses his entire arsenal and mixes it up and also keeps the ball on the ground more often than not. none of the 12 groundouts snuck through for base hits. And while Turnbull certainly was good, I cannot help but wonder whether or not he'd been able to have gotten this no-hitter if he were facing a team other than the Mariners. Again, it wasn't the overly dominant performance like we saw out of John Means when he no-hit the Mariners. He looked like he had no-hit stuff. He looked untouchable. Mr. Turnbull looked somewhat touchable, but not greatly so. I'll talk about the Mariners pitching performance here in a bit, but first the trivia corner.

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it's that he's gotten into a lot of deep counts, a lot of three ball counts. So I decided to keep an eye on it and see when he'd get to a three ball count for the first time. And it was the second batter of the third inning, Robbie Grossman, who walked. Dunn actually had a very good first inning with the exception of one pitch to Jimere, Candelario. Still can't say his name. It was a fastball in the middle of the zone that was jacked for a home run. Dunn threw only through 11 pitches in that first inning. And 13 in the second.

He was looking like he was going to be. put together an efficient day. Then the third inning is where his pitch count went way up, needing 21 to get through the inning. He threw seven pitches to Grossman before putting him on base, and he later scored on an RBI groundout from Miguel Cabrera. Also in that inning, Luis Torrens had another defensive miss cue, which led to a wild pitch. I'll talk about that later.

Back to Dunn, though, and the fourth inning also was not kind to his pitch count. Nomar Mazzara had a 10 pitch at bat. it ended in a strikeout, and Harold Castro had an eight pitch at bat, which ended with a base hit. While both men did foul off a lot of pitches, they also both wound up in full counts. Dunn winds up throwing 94 pitches in five and two-thirds innings, gives up five hits, two runs, both of them earned, two walks, a home run. He struck out a career high, nine, however. Despite the high pitch count in relatively few innings, I think he was effective. that one pitch to Candelario in the first, and there was a ground ball single in the third hit by Jonathan Scope,

which pushed Grossman along the second base who later scored. It was a semi-slow roller along the third base line with Kyle Seeger playing back. It was very close to the foul line. All Seeger could do was just kind of watch it in the hope that it went foul. It did not. Scope reached. Then that wild pitch I mentioned, which sent Grossman to third. third. He had been advanced his second on that single, and then Grossman later scored.

Those are the only two runs that Justin Dunn gave up. Granted, one of them was a mistake pitch, but Grossman's run was kind of led to by some bad luck on Scopes-based hit. Drew Steckinrider pitched one in a third inning and was impressive once again. He's very quietly putting together a very good season out of the bullpen. I noted on Monday's show that he's really had just the one bad outing. his first outing of the year, he's been excellent since then. Paul Seawald and Brady Lale also pitched an inning apiece and collectively gave up three more runs.

Why can't I talk? Bringing a score to five-nothing. Until the top of the 8th, it still felt as if the game were very much within reach, as the M's were down just two nothing. Even after the 8th where it was 3-0, still felt like the Mariners could come back, but then when the Tigers scored two off Lale and the 9th,

it just felt over. Going back to that wild pitch in the third, yes, I'm going to pile on Luis Torrens again. I'm sick of his defense, ladies and gentlemen. It is not good. It was another wild pitch that could have been scored a past ball, done through a curveball in the dirt behind the plate, and Torrens, who was catching on one knee again

with a man on base, or two men on base, really, just kind of stuck his glove down, really didn't make too much effort to block it. The ball skipped away, and the runners who were on first and second and both moved up 90 feet. Dan Wilson was commentating on TV at the time, and I'm really glad that he was.

He made a point that I made the last, on this show, the last time Torrens let a pitch get away. He noted that with balls in the dirt, you have to try to get on top of it, stick your chest protector over the ball so it gets knocked down in front of you rather than try to glove the ball and risk it going away.

He also made the point that balls in the dirt take unpredictable hops, I have to get my tongue on tide, where the ball or the ball, or the bounce off the chest protector is much easier to control. And from what I can discern, the fact that Terence was down on one knee hinders his ability to get on top of such balls in the dirt. Sooner or later, it's going to get into the pitcher's head

that he cannot block balls in the dirt well. He has to be getting a poor reputation as a defensive catcher. If you are a pitcher, you have to have confidence in that man behind the plate to be able to block a pitch in the dirt. It can get into a pitcher's head. And if he's going to throw a low breaking ball or splitter or sinker or something to that effect, and if he's got in the back of his mind, don't throw it in the dirt, he could hang it instead, leaving it high enough to get clobbered for extra bases.

You got a guy like Dan Wilson back there, and the pitcher is not afraid at all to throw one in the dirt, knowing that there's a very good chance that it'll get blocked. After last night's game, Terence has been behind the plate for 14 wild pitches, but no past balls. That's in 190 and two-thirds innings. Tom Murphy, on the other hand, in 182 innings, five wild pitches in one pass ball. That cannot be a coincidence, ladies and gentlemen. I did some math to see how those numbers compared to the average Major League Catcher this season. Coming into yesterday, the average Major League Catcher is allowing 0.50 wild pitches and past balls every nine innings.

The number last year was slightly better, 0.47 wild pitches and past balls per nine innings. Murphy's ahead of the game. His number is 0.30 wild pitches and pass balls every nine, and Torrens is at 0.66 per nine innings. So he is somewhat worse than the average catcher. Well, Murphy is quite a bit better. I know neither of them are hitting right now and that Murphy does most of his damage against lefties, but sooner or later, Torrance's poor defense is going to start costing him playing time, or at least it should.

Remember, Scott's service was a catcher himself. I'm guessing that it's got to be a little bit more frustrating for him than it would be for the average manager just because of that. And with Cal Raleigh breathing down Toranz's neck in AAA, and there's been talk of him getting called up this year, Torrance had better get his act together. Have you got a question or a comment for the show, such as DC relax

If you do send it to locked on Mariner's at gmail.com and we'll address it on the air in a future mailbag segment. We're doing one on Friday this week, ladies and gentlemen. Questions and comments on any subject are welcome and encouraged. It need not be about baseball. It need not be about sports.

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Here once again is your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you very much, Joey Martin, and thank you to those of you out there in podcastland for sticking around. The last time the Ms were no hit, I rattled off a bunch of no-hater trivia on this program. and doing so again would just be repeating the same facts I listed two weeks ago. But the Mariners created some new trivia last night, so yay for that? Maybe? No? No, no. This was the fifth no-hitter of the season already.

The record is seven, which has been done in three different seasons. We may very well have seven by the mid-season break this year. We've already got five, and it's not even Memorial Day. The Mariners, yes, have been no hit twice, but they've got company. Cleveland has also been no hit twice. Now, you may be asking yourself, has there ever been a season prior to this in which two teams were no hit twice? And the answer to that question would be yes, it has happened before. In 2015, the Mets and Dodgers were both no hit twice.

Both of those teams advanced to the postseason that year, with the Mets beating the Dodgers. Rogers and the National League Division Series, and the Mets lost in the World Series. So if the Indians and Mariners follow precedent, there's one of your American League Division Series matchups gang, and the winner of that particular series will go on to lose the fall classic. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Neither of those teams are playoff-bound. I'm happy that the Mariners did not become the first team to be one of two in a particular

season to be no hit. But, you know, the season is young, ladies and gentlemen, maybe the Indian and Maritors will both get no hit three times. Oh my goodness, I sincerely hope not. That episode of this program is going to suck, ladies and gentlemen. I may have Clive Braithwaite the fourth guest toasted, so I don't have to, or maybe I'll just rerun a classic world series recap from the offseason. Pitching tonight for the Tigers is Tarek's schoolball.

He attended Seattle University, though he went to high school in Arizona, and was born in Hayward, California, named interestingly enough after Jason Hayward. He's struggled by and large this season. He'll be making his seventh start and will be appearing in his ninth game. He's walked a lot of hitters, 4.6 and 9 innings, not a good ratio. That could work in the Mariners' favor. And he's also given up a league-leading 11 home runs.

The Mariners have been relying on the long ball to score their runs by and large. That may also bode well for the M's. Opposing him will be Logan Gilbert, making his second big league start. I thought he looked very impressive. in his first Major League outing, even though the numbers may not have bared that out. It wasn't perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but a good first effort.

Well, gang, that's it. I don't want to talk about last night's game anymore. I told you it would be a short episode. Tomorrow we will be recapping tonight's game. And joining me to talk about that game will be Robert Petrie, Curious George, and a role of Painters tape. You will not want to miss that one, gang.

That's a great panel. So download right and follow Locked on Mariners so you never miss it. episode, look for us on any podcasting app that springs into your brainhead. Leave a rating and review if your podcasting app of choice so allows. Thanks for listening, ladies and gentlemen. Let's hope the Ms can salvage the last game of the series. They've scored one run in two games against a team with one of the worst earned run averages in baseball. That's got to change, right? We'll find out together tonight. In the meantime, have a great day. Get all the sports

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