Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Sloppy Play DOOMS Seattle Mariners as World Series Hopes Hinge on Tomorrow's Game 7

Episode Date: October 20, 2025

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The Mariners enter tonight needing just one win to go to the First World Series and franchise history. And after tonight, they're still looking for that win. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Hello, boat people. It is Sunday, October 19th, 2025. This is Colby Patton-Ov with the Locked-on Mariners podcast, part of the Lockdown Podcast Network.

your team every day. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app, create an account, and use the code locked on MLB for $20 off your first purchase. Well, it could have been the best night in Mariners franchise history. Unfortunately, tonight felt all too familiar as the Mariners more or less choked away prime opportunity

to secure the biggest win in franchise history. And they didn't look that good doing it. rough night for everybody really uh this was a top down failure of the pitching the defense the base running the offense they just got their doors blown off it was one of the more passive beatdowns you'll see yeah and the three blue j wins they have really dominated you whereas you've kind of had to scrape by for two of your three wins in this series so uh they all count the same each team has won three games and whoever wins tomorrow is going to the world series and that's really the only thing that matters. But tonight was ugly. There's no reason to put around and just

kind of try and not step on anybody's toes, these professional athletes, you can just call it like you see it, and they'll be fine. Logan Gilbert was dreadful tonight. Absolutely dreadful. And what we saw tonight from Logan Gilbert was what we have seen for most of the year, with the caveat included that the Toronto Blue Jays are a team that is seemingly specifically built. to give this version of Logan Gilbert the most trouble. Logan has been a strikeout machine this year, but he has not been able to put guys away quickly. He has not been able to go deep into ball games for a majority of this year.

And he is a guy who will make some mistakes, but the stuff has been so good this year. He can get away with them. You can't do that to this lineup. You can't make mistakes. You can't have nine pitch at bats to every single hitter and expect to get away with it. It's not going to happen.

So you have a version of Logan Gilbert, which in my opinion is significantly worse than the version we saw last year, take the numbers, throw them out, watch the games. Logan Gilbert is not as good this year as he was last year. He's striking more guys out, but who cares? Like, what's the point? And this Blue Jays team does not strike out. We've talked about this. This is a brutal matchup for Logan Gilbert. It wasn't a great matchup for him when he was at his best.

And this version of Logan is particularly susceptible. to be knocked around by these Blue Jays. And he just didn't have it tonight. The stuff was okay. I don't really have a problem with the stuff. Command and control wasn't. There were a couple of pitches that didn't go his way. In fact, let me award this carefully.

The umpire, the home plate umpire tonight, the strike zone tonight was bad, heavily skewed against the Mariners, but that's not why they lost. They did not lose this game because the strike zone was bad. It was bad, and they also lost the game. that's kind of the difference in this one. But Logan just didn't have it. When he did throw strikes, most of them were in the middle of the plate.

When he was on the corners, Toronto was able to foul those pitches off. It's just long grinding at bats. And then you make a mistake and boom, it would get hit hard. Four innings, five runs, four earned. Again, defense didn't help him out. No question about it. Strike zone didn't help him out. No question about it.

But he was bad. This is the most important start of Logan Gilbert's career. And he sucked. He was bad. He crumbled in Toronto. And it kind of, you know, kicked off what was ultimately a disastrous game for the Mariners across the board, as we mentioned earlier. But Logan wasn't good tonight. The bullpen did come in and they were able to give Seattle a chance to get back into this one. Bizarro got used, Brash got used. So the Mariners were able to keep it somewhat close they scored a couple runs late in this game or well in the middle of the game and had plenty of opportunities offensively to get back into this one but unfortunately the five or four nothing

hole i should say that logan dug was just too much to overcome uh the offense never really found its footing and by the time they started to put some good at bats together it was just far too late so the mariners really never had a shot in this one uh it is the unfortunate reality of what we watched, but it is the reality of what we watch. I mean, Logan went four innings. He gave up seven hits. Also walked a guy, only three strikeouts, a couple home runs. He gave up, let's see, or two, four, seven hard hit balls. You had to use Bizarro in this one for two innings. Thankfully, he only threw 15 pitches, should be fine for tomorrow. Brash gave up a run as well, unfortunately, on a wild pitch. But yeah, it wasn't a good night for Brash. A couple walks. Also had a hit.

He threw 21 pitches. Again, he'll be available tomorrow. Everybody will be with the exception of Logan Gilbert, I'm sure. Carlos Vargas came in and he gave up a couple hits, but he was able to throw up a scoreless bottom of the eighth. So, you know, didn't have to use Munoz tonight, didn't use Spire. But you did use Bizarro. He should be fine. Only 15 pitches. Matt Brash continues to be kind of a hit or miss guy. You know, he's either going to be great or he's going to be lousy. Tonight was mostly lousy. If we're being honest, just not great command and control.

So unfortunately for the Mariners, the pitching just was not good enough. But it starts with the starter. Logan Gilbert wasn't good enough. You needed him to be better. He was not. Period. So it's a bit of a bummer. Obviously, biggest game of,

the franchise and kind of the guy who is the leader of your pitching staff just kind of went out there and laid an egg. Again, didn't get much help whatsoever. We saw a Eugenio Suarez make a pretty bad air. We saw bad routes in the outfield. We saw what is called a throwing air on Cal Raleigh, although it's really more of another air on Gino for not blocking a baseball instead of trying to pick it like they had any shot to get the runner out. So a couple of errors, again, some really bad base running in this one as well, just not enough offense to overcome.

But Logan wasn't good. That's the reality of the situation here. And unfortunately, on the other end, Trey Savage was pretty good, although you had plenty of opportunities to get back in this game. You had bases loaded with one out and back-to-back innings, and you got a grand total of zero runs out of that. The Blue Jays only had to use Varland and Hoffman.

they only to use two guys out of their bullpen. Granted, they're two best guys. And they did throw 22 and 35 pitches in this one. So we'll see if that comes into play tomorrow. They'll pitch if they have to. It's not like they won't be unavailable, but maybe they just won't be quite as effective. But yeah, this game, sadly, was pretty much over at four to four,

or at four to nothing in the fourth inning. The Mariners, again, they score two in the six to make it somewhat interesting. At that point, it was at that point it was five to two. And again, they had been generating traffic. So things look like you might be a big hit away from getting right back in this thing. But the offense was just dreadful tonight. 13 strikeouts in this one. And just a lot of non-competitive at bats from your best players.

Julio went 0 for 3 with a walk. Cowell went 0-4 with three strikeouts. Jorge went 0-4 with a strikeout. Josh Naylor and Randy Rosarina actually had, you know, pretty good games. And this one, Nailer went two for four with a solo homer. Randy went two for four. Also two strikeouts, but whatever you take what you can get. Gino did have a hit and a walk in this one.

So that's nice to see. But, you know, just really not a ton to show for it. Leo Rivas almost went yard, which would have been amazing. But hits off that high wall in right field off the bullpen and J.P. Crawford with one of the dumber base running decisions. We'll see. It was a sight to behold. We'll talk about that in just a minute.

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So be on the lookout for that. Ty went to the game tonight. He is fighting traffic in human, like foot traffic. to get back to his house. He's just not going to make it in time. So here I am doing a solo show. But anyways, the plan is to do a game seven preview tomorrow and then a post-game show. I would assume hopefully a happy one, although based on tonight's outcome, it's hard to feel that optimistic. But who knows?

It's a game seven. Anything can happen. The mayors have already announced that George Kirby will get the ball. The Blue Jays are going to counter with Shane Bieber, who starts in these games. It doesn't matter a ton because we're probably going to see. everybody on both sides. I imagine the only two pitchers who are not available tomorrow for either team are going to be Trey Savage and Logan Gilbert.

Everybody else should be ready to go. That means Wu. That means Miller. That means Castillo. And for the Blue Jays, that means Scherzer. If they need it, that means Kevin Gossman, if they need him. So we'll see. we shall see how this thing plays out.

We will talk about that more on tomorrow's episode. But unfortunately, the Mariners could not handle their business tonight. So now we all get to sweat through at game seven. We mentioned some of the sloppy play from the Mariners in this one. The base running was kind of an underrated part of that. Leo Rivas had a great hit. It was high, you know, should have been at least a double off the wall in right field.

it ends up being a single because J.P. Crawford apparently thinks that Addison Barger, or sorry, Nathan Lucas could jump 15 feet in the air. And so he kind of starts to run back to first base only to have the ball hit, you know, five, six feet above Lucas's head, which obviously it was going to do. So he had to quickly, you know, reverse course and head back to second base. Not a good look. Should have had at least runners on second and third. And we're being honest, JP should have read that ball better. He might have been able to. to score on that one. So that is unfortunate.

I can't remember if it was Lucas or Barger was in the game at right field at that point. They both played right field tonight. I think it was Barger at that point. So probably would have been hard to score on Barger because he's got the cannon, but still, really bad base running. This is to go along with just kind of a whiff from Gino, really a couple of them defensively. And this one, the Mariners, they issued three walks. they gave up a couple home runs and the offense just did not get it done for 13 strikeouts in this one.

They do have four walks. They did manage seven hits. Unfortunately, just one home run. And we know what the formula is for the Seattle Mariners. They have to hit home runs. That's how they're going to score their runs. If they don't hit home runs, they're in trouble. The strikeouts are fine so long as you're doing damage when you do make contact.

and today the Mariners had an expected batting average of 175. They only had five hard hit balls in the entire game, 27.8%. They had one extra base hit. It was the Josh Naylor solo homer, and that was it. The Mariners just got kind of punked. They just, they got jumped, and it just showed. So this was a rather unfortunate effort from the Mariners. You know, it is tough sometimes, I should rephrase, it is tough most of the time to be a Mariners fan.

You just thought maybe tonight would be one of the few exceptions that we've had in our franchise's history, and it just wasn't meant to be. Perhaps tomorrow will be. But now, I don't think it is. You know, I don't feel great about it. I should say. But it's a game seven. Literally anything can happen in a game seven. Throughout the stats, throughout the series previews and all that. And it's just going to come down to who plays better for nine innings tomorrow. Well, at least nine innings tomorrow. Knowing the Mariners, it could be a 15 inning game again. But yeah, it is, I guess if you're looking for reasons for optimism for tomorrow, A, it's a game seven.

Anything can happen. We know this. B. It is George Kirby on the mount. Playoff George has been mostly really good. So it's not unreasonable to expect him to be better than he was in his last outing. Side note on the negative side of that. His last outing was against the Blue Jays and he looked terrible. So we'll see. But you do have playoff George on the mound tomorrow. It is a game seven. Anything can happen. Your bullpen is in good shape even though it had to get used, even though they had to cover four innings tonight, your bullpen's still in good shape.

You'll have everybody but Gilbert available tomorrow. And this team is one of the most resilient teams we've ever seen in Seattle. They get back up. You knock them down. They get back up. At some point they're not going to. Maybe that's tomorrow. But this team continues to defy expectations.

They lose game one to Detroit. now they have to beat scoobel and they find a way to do it. Then win game three, this is great. Take home, you know, go out and win game four. They get blown out game four in Detroit. And now they have to travel across the country, back home again. And what do they have to do? They have to beat scuba again.

They lost the two easiest games in the entire series. And here they are. They found a way to beat scuba again. It took 15 innings. And that is kind of the stress. strategy for tomorrow as well. Not to play 15, but to get Beaver out of the game as soon as you can, you can attack this bullpen. You can get to this bullpen. Again, Hoffman was really good tonight. Varland, not terrible. He didn't give up a run, but it was kind of a fluky double. But

Varland's pitched a ton. He's kind of their bizardo. He's pitching basically every game of this postseason. So you might have a shot to get to a tired Varland who threw 20, 22 pitches today and has thrown nine of the 10 games or whatever, the Blue Jays have played. And Hoffman through two innings tonight, 35 pitches, that could come into play as well. So you have to get to Bieber. You have to get him out of this game. He's pitched very well against you in the past. So you have to be a little bit patient, but you have to be willing to attack.

You have to be willing to go after the fastball when you get it, if you get it. And you have to put it in play again. 14 strikeouts tonight. If they do that tomorrow, they'll see. still could win, but they better hit more than one solo homer. They better be a three-run homer in there and maybe a solo shot and something like that. So yeah, I just, this team is exhausting. They are tough to figure out.

And I don't ever want to pick them because they are the streakiest team in baseball. But you don't want to pick against them either because they're the streakiest team in baseball. So game seven, man. Game 7, the first time in franchise history, the Mariners were playing into game 7. It was never going to be easy, was it? It was never going to be easy. Yeah. So we'll see how tomorrow goes again.

Ty will be back tomorrow. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it after the game, hopefully celebrating the Mariners' first trip to the fall classic ever. That would be something. Anyways, that's going to do it for tonight's show. Thank you so much for listening to Lockdown Mariners. podcast, and we will be back tomorrow.