2019 has not been type to the Seattle Mariners. After beginning the 12 months 13-2, the membership has gone 41-71 since, incomes final place within the AL West. To present credit score the place credit score is due, nonetheless, the Mariners have been on one thing of a roll, coming into Wednesday afternoon’s collection highway journey finale towards the Rays on a four-game successful streak. Nonetheless, the M’s misplaced Wednesday’s contest in very miserable trend.
Coming into the highest of the ninth inning, the Mariners trailed the Rays 5-3, however a solo homer by Daniel Vogelbach and a two-run triple by Mallex Smith sent them into the bottom half of the ninth leading 6-5. Manager Scott Servais sent Matt Magill — acquired from the Twins exactly one month ago — to the mound to close out the game.
Kevin Kiermaier greeted Magill rudely, starting the inning by swatting a game-tying solo home run to center field. Magill would then allow a single to Willy Adames and a double to Michael Brosseau before intentionally walking Ji-Man Choi to load the bases with no outs. Tommy Pham worked the count to 1-2 when Magill spiked a breaking ball in the dirt that catcher Omar Narváez had little hope of corralling. The ball skipped away and the Rays walked off 7-6 winners on a wild pitch, a very on-brand sentence for the 2019 Mariners.