By opening a series of three games and a 10 game road trip Friday evening with a 5-1 victory against the Padres of San Diego, the Seattle Mariners made a good start from the Recruit Logan Evans launcher.
They will ask Emerson Hancock to walk in place of Evans on Saturday when they try a serial victory at SSN Diego.
Hancock (1-2, 6.91 ERA) has just decorated a defeat of 11-5 at home against the New York Yankees, which allowed him to be seven points in eight strokes in five rounds. Hancock walked four and withdrew five years, but was finally carried out by abandoning three circuits, two of which during a fifth round of six points.
Hancock faced a lot of traffic during its 28 2/3 rounds this year. His whip (more hits walks divided by sleeves) is a ugly 1.71.
“Lose (stinking) and that is one of them,” said Hancock on Monday evening. “And for me, I did not feel like I did my job. I made some mistakes and they made me pay for them. But at the end of the day, you must continue to continue them.”
Hancock faced San Diego once, abandoning a single point on two strokes in five rounds in a decision without a decision with three bullets and three stick withdrawals during a 6-1 mariners victory on August 9, 2023. He was slightly better in departure against the opponents of the National League during his MLB Brief career, launching an ERA of 4.11 in seven outings.
Seattle entered this series freshly released from a Homestand 1-5. But Friday evening, it looked more like the team that has reconstructed nine consecutive serial victories before being swept away by Toronto and drop two of the three to the Yankees. His offense hit 10 strokes, obtaining JP Crawford, Rowdy Telz and Cal Raleigh circuits.
The sailors appear to cope with a difficult challenge in Nick Pivetta (5-2, 3.05), which comes out of a rare poor performance. By losing 9-3 Sunday in Colorado, Pivetta was torn for six points and seven strokes in four rounds, walking two and withdrawing five.
“It’s just one-off and forget it,” he said after the start. “Just rinse it and go to the next one.”
But Pivetta was almost invincible at home this year, going 4-0 and grant only four points in 25 1/3 rounds. He also launched well in five career outings against Seattle, displaying a file of 2-2 with an MPM of 3.23 and by making 40 strikers in 31 1/3 sleeves. But he authorized six circuits and the navy spoke of 59 long balls this year, well for the seventh in MLB.
Pivetta and the Padres will hope for more offense than they generated on Friday evening, when they managed to miss eight sure. None of these sure strokes came out of Manny Machado’s bat, ending the second longest strike sequence in his career at 14 games.
It was an 180 of the six previous games in San Diego, which saw it on average nearly nine points per game, highlighted by an explosion of 21 points on May 10 in Colorado.
– Field level media
