Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - M's Stun Slam Diego/White Sox's Giolito No-Hits Pittsburgh

Episode Date: August 27, 2020

The Mariners did in fact cool of a red hot San Diego (or "Slam Diego") Padres team on Tuesday, who had won seven in a row. The M's dropped four runs on them in the first two innings, going onto an 8-3 final score. D.C. talks about this game, and then talks about the big baseball news item of Tuesday: Lucas Giolito's no-hitter against the Pirates. D.C. also talks about this dominating effort, and some other pitching mastery that's taken place on August 25. 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.

This is Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Here's your host, D.C. Lundberg. Hey, gang, D.C. Lundberg here with Locked-on Mariners, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network. You may download, rate, or subscribe to this program on Apple Podcast, Google Podcast, Spotify, Stitcher Radio, or whichever podcasting app that you personally care to use. You can ask your smart device to play Locked-on Mariner's podcast or any of the other programs here on the Locked-on network. You can follow this show on Twitter at... L.O. underscore Mariners, and follow me on Twitter at D.C. underscore Lundberg. Well, this was going to be a fun

little episode, as late as it was going to be, recapping a great Mariners win, talking about the season's first no-hater, which happened in Chicago. But it's not really that much fun to cover baseball right now, and for all the wrong reasons. The Mariners were supposed to be playing the Padres in the second game of the three-game series as I record this, but they decided not to. We all know why I'm not going to get into it here. I have said before that I keep politics off of this program, since sports and entertainment are supposed to be a diversion from the real world. If you want political opinions and hard news, go watch a talk show, go tune in talk radio, seek out whichever sources that you trust. You are not going to find news or politics here. What you will find here,

however, are game recaps. I am going to continue to do my job and bring you a hopefully entertaining an informative show, all the while trying to let you forget just how much the real world sucks for 15 or 20 minutes at a time, however long the show lasts. Last night, the Mariners did begin what was originally supposed to be a three-game series at Petco Park in San Diego. The Padres were rolling coming into that game, having one seven in a row. The Mariners, though, were just coming off a sweep of the Texas Rangers. And in talking to Javier Reyes from Locked-on Padres,

He was somewhat concerned about the Padre's starter, Chris Paddock, because according to him, he had kind of left some fast balls in the middle of the strike zone. And his control wasn't the sharpest, and it kind of showed in the first two innings where the Mariners scored two runs apiece. Kyle Seeger got their scoring started on a sacrifice fly, scoring J.P. Crawford. And Kyle Lewis then scored later in the inning on an Evan White single. Evan White had a pretty good game. More to that in a little bit. In the second inning, J.P. Crawford hit his first home run of the season.

season, which was a two-run shot to bring the Mariners to a 4-0 lead. Eric Hosmer hit a home run in the bottom of the third inning for the Padres, a two-run blast. Mani Machado was on base at the time, so he scores. And then Will Myers later scored on a Thai-France double to bring the score to four to three. Sixth inning, Austenola, home run once again. He has been on some kind of fire, ladies and gentlemen, solo home run to bring the score to five to three. And later in the inning, Evan White scores on a JP.

Crawford double. Crawford had a good game of his own. Top of the seventh inning, Evan White hits a single to score Kyle Seeger, and then Austin Nola later scores on a Tim Lopes RBI single to bring it to that eight to three final score. Starting for the Mariners that day, Marco Gonzalez, and he did not have a typical great Marco Gonzalez day. Five innings, nine hits. That's kind of a lot over nine innings. He threw almost 100 pitches in those five innings, 98 pitches, three runs all earned, No walks, however. One straw, pardon me, five strikeouts in the one home run that we mentioned from Eric Hosmer. J.P. Crawford went two for four with a walk in this game.

So that's, you know, encouraging because he had not been doing all that well. Telegram Sam checks in with another hit. He goes one for five. Austin Nola, three for five. He's now hitting three, 15. Evan White, three for four. He's brought his average up from about 100, where it was a little while ago. all the way up to 168.

Also checking in with base hits are Kyle Lewis, Tim Lopes, and starting second baseman D. Gordon, who was starting in Shedlong Jr.'s Stead. Next game of this series, hopefully will be tomorrow. It's a 110 scheduled start time. The starting pitchers were supposed to be Garrett Richards and Yusei Kikichi, but since today's game is not going to happen, it could be Taiwan Walker and Denelson Lomette,

who are scheduled to pitch tonight, who obviously are not. We will see what the teams have in mind. Show us probably going to be on the shorter side today, ladies and gentlemen, and we're going to go right now to the Mariners trivia question. Since Austinola had a pretty good game, we will ask a question about him. What's his minor league batting average? Answer following this from Rock Auto. With the ever-increasing numbers of makes and models,

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Austinola's Career Minor League batting average is 252. Last year at Tacoma in 55 games, he hit 327 before getting the call to the big show. and in 2018 he hit 3, pardon me, 279 for the AAA New Orleans Baby Cakes. His career average at the AAA level is 275, much higher than that career minor league average of 252. The other levels are obviously much lower. If you've got a question for me or a comment on the show, send an email, it's so easy. Locked-on Mariners at gmail.com is the address, and I'll consider using it for the Friday mailbag segment. It does not have to be a baseball question, ladies and gentlemen.

Send in any question you want just as long as it's appropriate, and I will consider using it and probably will for the Friday mailbag segment, which we are doing this week. Remember, Locked-on Mariners at gmail.com is the address, and this program will continue upon the conclusion of the following. Welcome back to Locked-on Mariners. Once again, your host, D.C. Lundberg. Thank you very much, Joey.

We are back here on Locked-on Mariners. going to kind of shift from Mariners baseball to some national baseball. As yesterday, the first no-hitter of the season was thrown, and it was authored by the Chicago White Sox Lucas Jolito in a 101 pitch effort in a two-hour and 23-minute ballgame. Jolito only allowed one base runner, a lead-off walk in the fourth inning to Eric Gonzalez, and struck out 13.

This was the White Sox 19th no-hitter as a franchise. They've got a ton of them, ladies and gentlemen. This team has been around for well over 100 years. They've got a lot of history. And this was the first White Sox no-hitter in which the picture recorded double-digit strikeouts. With a team with this much history, they achieved a first last night. Incredible. And we saw the final three outs. My house might and I had MLB and Emmerk gone watching the final three outs. And it was very, very exciting. The last batter was Eric Gonzalez, who had drawn that walk in the fourth inning, and he scorched a line drive to right field. However, right field or Adam Engel caught the ball. He ran after it,

made a pretty good play on it, didn't have to dive for it, but he did have to kind of lunge at it, and he obviously saved the no-hitter at that point, recording the final out. The play of the game, however, probably was in the bottom of the seventh inning when Tim Anderson, Shortstop, Tim Anderson, who was playing in the shift. He was playing the runner to pull. So he was on the second baseman side of shortstop. Had to range back to his original shortstop position, feel the ball, and throw quickly just to get the runner by a half a step. That was the play of the game, ladies and gentlemen, to save the no-hitter.

Again, Lucas Jolito, 101 pitches, just a great, great ballgame, dominating effort against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Kamiski Park-Lest. I don't care what the name of the stadium is now. It's Kamiski Park. It'll always be Kamisky Park. Some of the other no-hitters that have been thrown this day, the only Major League Baseball sanctioned no-hitter that occurred on August 25th, other than Jolito's start last night. And it might be G-O-L-I-O-I-T-O.

I think it's Jolito, but I've heard other people say G-L-Lito. In any case, Virgil Trucks on August 25, 1952, through a one-to-nothing no-hitter, against the New York Yankees as a member of the Detroit Tigers. Also on August 25th, in 1924, Walter Johnson pitched a seven-inning no-hitter against the Cleveland Browns, which was rained-shortened, and that was a two-nothing score.

Also in 1967, similar to Walter Johnson's range-shortened no-no in 1924, the twins Dean Chance through a shortened no-hitter, defeating the Cleveland Indians by a two-to-one score. In 1981, Dennis Lamp, pitching for the Chicago White Sox, loses a no-hitter in the ninth inning on a lead-off hit in the ninth inning from the Brewer's Robin Yount. It's a 5-to-1 win, and, you know, hey, that's still a pretty good game, isn't it? Then fast forward all the way to 2016, when Matt Moore of the San Francisco Giants barely misses on a no-hitter, he's one out away, Corey Seeger singled with two outs in the ninth, to end this.

this no-hit bid, but hey, still a very, very good effort from Matt Moore. And then last night, August 25th, 2020, Lucas Jolito dominates the Pittsburgh Pirates in his no-hitter. He's having a very good season, Jolito is ladies and gentlemen. Just two years ago, he led the American League in ERA among qualified starters and not in the way that you want to. He had a 613 ERA, which was the highest, and he allowed the most earned runs in the American League with 118. Last year, however, in 29 starts, that was down to 341, and his whip was just barely above one at 1.064, and he's even better so far this season in seven starts. 309 ERA for him, and the whip is even lower at 1.008.

So good, and he was an all-star last year as well, don't you forget. So good on Jolito. He's 25 years old, and the White Sox are trying to start to make a push to be competitive. And they are competitive this year. They're very, very good. And he's a big reason why he's kind of solidified that rotation, so to speak. So good on Jolito, hard work, obviously paying off for that young gentleman. We will be back tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen.

I don't know what the hell we're going to talk about. But I will figure it out in the meantime. But I do know that on tomorrow's show, I will be joined by guest panelists, Detective Ron Harris, Clippy the paper clip, and a VCR. Please remember to download rate and subscribe to this program so you never miss an episode. Apple Podcast, Google Podcast,

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