Seattle Mariners takes for Week 7: M’s hit the skids, call up the kids
Anemic Offense
The Mariners’ team batting average ranks dead last. *facepalm.* The offense wasn’t racking up video game numbers before the team’s recent troubles, but they were coming through with enough timely hits.
Kyle Seager, Mitch Haniger, and Ty France started the season hot but have faded the last few weeks. In fact, Friday, France went on the injured list with a wrist issue. Meanwhile, Dylan Moore and J.P. Crawford took their hitting up a notch. It’d be nice if those guys kept hitting while the former guys got back to where they were.
Getting it Dunn
Back to Justin Dunn. Since his first start of the year, he’s been the Seattle Mariners’most consistent and reliable starter. It’s been great to see Dunn’s consistency improve compared to Sheffield’s volatility from start to start. However, Sheffield’s good starts have been better than Dunn’s. For now, Dunn’s consistency has been much more important to the team’s success.
Wrap up
Well, that’s all there is for this week. An MLB season is a marathon and not a sprint. Seattle’s early success was great, but now the league is catching up to the M’s. The Mariners need to make adjustments of their own to counter.
The M’s are in third place in the division, four-and-a-half games back of the Oakland A’s, and two games behind Houston. Their upcoming short-term schedule is favorable two more games against light-hitting Cleveland and then a three-game series with Detroit.
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