Mitch Garver’s Ongoing Struggles Headline Mariners’ Series Loss in Boston

Mitch Garver’s Ongoing Struggles Headline Mariners’ Series Loss in Boston

a nice road trip for the Mariners ends on a sour note as they lose the Red Sox in extras today our thoughts following the game coming up here on the locked on Maris podcast Colby hit [Music] it you are locked on Mariners your daily Seattle Mariners podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day Oho Sailors it is Wednesday July 31st 2024 this is is Alis and Kolby Pat not for the locked on Mars podcast part of the locked on podcast Network your team every day Mayors fall to the Red Sox 3 to2 and 10 Innings today at Fenway Park before we get into our takeaways from the game shout out to our title sponsor today prize picks it’s the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports go to prize.com lockon MLB and use the promo code locked on MLB that’s all lowercase for a first deposit match up to $100 and if you want to hear from me and Kobe even more and help support the show check out our patreon the link is in the description you can sign up for free 7-Day trial so before we get into the um the bad of this game and there is quite a bit of it uh let’s get into not necessarily the good of the game but the the decent of the game uh hey Josh roas and and Luke reallyy had decent days at the plate you know both of those guys have been really struggling as of late so it was nice to see those guys be able to contribute a little bit today uh reallyy went one for three had a couple of hard hit ball so that’s nice to see from him and then Roos went two for five obviously had the the home run to a essentially dead center it was more like left Center but you get the gist uh two hard hit balls on the day for him in general so that’s nice uh George Kirby five in the third Innings pitch two earn runs on seven hits just two strikeouts one walk on 95 pitches five hard hit balls allowed it was pretty cool the way that he started the game uh his first time pitching in Fenway Park since the passing of Tim Wakefield the legendary knuckle baller for the the Red Sox and of course he he threw a knuckle ball in honor of him on his first pitch of the game of course uh George also threw a knuckle ball on the day that uh Tim Wakefield passed uh against the Rangers last year against uh Cory Seager uh so that that was cool to see but overall not not a great day for George not a terrible day for George either uh what did you make of that Colby yeah he’s just not missing bats uh and that that’s a problem and really none of the Mariners starters are missing a ton of bats right now we’re seeing a lot of you know three four five strikeout Nights from the Mariners rotation and their stuff is good enough that they should be racking up more strikeouts than that and the reason that’s a problem is against a team like Boston in Boston any ball put in play is a potential danger you can hit you can give up a routine Fly ball and it’s a double like it’s just one of those ballparks where you have to find a way to miss bats consistently and George had six whiffs today total on everything on 995 pitches six whiffs 13% uh whiff rate that’s not good enough against anybody let alone the Red Sox the Red Sox had 20 foul balls uh in this one 22 balls put in play uh 17 called strikes which is a good number but obviously the low whiff rate uh kind of knocks all that away so just too many pitches were thrown in which damage could have been done uh overall you know George was pretty solid he only gave up the five hard hit balls in this one uh so overall his command and control were good enough uh he was on the corners for most of it but he just couldn’t generate any swings and misses and you know that’s an issue as we know when you can you know when George isn’t generating swings and misses he tends to have long Innings and long at bats because he can get you 02 but he can’t put you away and then we’re just looking at you know a three pitch at bat becomes a four pitch at bat becomes an eight pitch at bat and next thing you know he’s got 25 pitches uh while he’s facing his third hitter like it it’s something that’s happened in the past and we know that George isn’t a guy who’s typically going to perform as well after he hits about that 90 pitch mark it it seems to be right around that Mark where you know his command starts to fade a little bit and as we know and as we’ve said the stuff isn’t incredible stuff it’s good stuff that plays up because of elite command well when he doesn’t have the elite command anymore the stuff becomes you know even worse and it’s very kind of average-ish type of stuff so so you know George has to get through these Innings quicker he’s got to find a way to miss more bats overall he wasn’t the problem today but he was only able to go five and a third uh which you know obviously puts more strain on the Mariners Bullpen uh which was down at least Garcia today clearly he wasn’t available uh and then obviously you know Munos was up and then he didn’t pitch today so that’s concerning I haven’t heard an update about that uh and Santos ended up having to leave after only throwing nine pitches so uh Mariners rotation they got to go deeper they have to go deeper you look at what they did in the series Castillo was the longest outing he went six Innings and and the only reason they pushed him for six is because they were up 10 to three at that point otherwise he would have just gone five so uh you know it was kind of a uh hit or miss day for for George he was pretty good but overall just not near good enough against this lineup uh to you know cons to get deep in this game and that’s kind of what you need out of out of Kirby um a difficult lineup particularly that top four uh they all Crush right-handed pitching uh and the Mariners only have really right-handed pitching to to throw at them so uh not the best matchup obviously that ballpark Boston is perfectly suited for it they’re built to play there uh and it shows so you know George overall was pretty solid today uh wouldn’t say he was good uh wouldn’t say he was bad I think it was just kind of just an average performance from from George and for the second time in this series we saw a missed call by by the homep plate umpire come back to bite the Mariners uh George in the first inning through what should have been a called strike three to end the inning against masataka yida ends up walking him on that pitch Des then doubles and then George throws a wild pitch and and a run scores off of that and there you go you’re down one nothing pretty early on in this game um so that that really hurt I mean it didn’t unravel like it did for Logan Gilbert but still that you know especially in this game where you know the Mayers lose by one run by the way they’ve lost seven one run games in a row now uh which is very UNM Mariners like uh you know every run counts especially with this offense still trying to to find its way still really struggling and obviously the the offense is dealing with a lot of injuries at the moment as well we’re going to talk about that a little later on uh but yeah so not not great there um to kind of take a positive spin on this overall though uh the Mayers did go four- two on the road trip so that’s nice to see of course they’ve kind of rided the ship a Le a little bit uh they’re back in sole possession of first place at least for now we’ll see what happens in the Astros Pirates game tonight Astros could retie the Mariners those two teams are going to continue to jockey for position in first place for the ALS I I assume for the rest of the season I don’t foresee that changing at all over the next couple of months um so uh yeah but um also want to quickly give a shout out to Colin Snider right Colin Snider was awesome today uh he got into a little bit of a jam there in the ninth inning but was able to bounce back and strike out Tyler O’Neal and a really big at bat that was huge awesome V also had a really nice uh outing after you know the last few times that he’s been out there for the most part has really struggled so nice to see him bounce back a little bit uh he had a strike out today uh just through seven pitches so uh good stuff uh overall from from the bullpen uh Taylor saso really struggled uh again out of the bullpen today he’s he’s having a hard time finding the strike zone as of late uh but it was able to get out of it uh Scott free uh because of a weird double play in which uh Tyler O’Neal interfered with Justin Turner trying to catch a popup from uh from Raphael Des um but yeah uh but overall you know the the bullpen didn’t give up a run until you know the the 10th inning so solid day for the bullpen overall uh but SNY really the the noteworthy name there out of that group uh all right so let’s uh let’s talk about kind of the the worst part about this game which was I mean overall yeah the the offense wasn’t able to get the job done when it really mattered but Mitch Garver was the biggest part of those struggles for sure and we’re at the point now where it’s like all right what do you do with Mitch Garver because we know that they’re not going to cut him he’s making money he’s guaranteed $12 million next year they’re not going to cut him they’re not going to DFA him so what do you do with him we’re going to go over that in just a moment but first a reminder this episode of the locked on MAR postgame show is brought to you by booking.com in game time with Summer travel heating up especially travel for baseball games it’s time to explore those US cities you’ve always secretly wanted to learn more about yes I’m talking about your rival cities with hotels bed and breakfast vacation rentals Resorts and so much more on booking.com you might just find your perfect stay even in your baseball rival City even a Mars fan can have a great time down in Houston whether you’re watching Cal righ hit one into the Crawford boxes or chowing down on some authentic Texas barbecue maybe you’re doing both at the same time from hotels that look over stadiums to 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loc k d o n MLB for $20 off download the game time app last minute tickets lowest price guaranteed and you’re listening to the locked on Mariners postgame show the Mariners are off tomorrow but they’re back at it on Friday at home against the Philadelphia Phillies you can catch all the action on the May’s Hometown broadcast with sirusxm via the sxm app all you have to do to find that is Search the word Mariners so rough day at the office for one Mr Mitch Garver he went 0 for five I believe he left Eight Men on Base today couple of strikeouts he obviously generated the final out of the day for the Mayers with bases loaded and the top of the 10th a ground out to Short Stop was actually a hard- hit ball uh but yeah went right to uh to the shorts for the final out was harder hit and had a higher expected batting average than de’s walk-off single go figure sure sure uh of course uh but yeah Garver was pitiful today um especially those those two Ed bats that resulted in strikeouts the one where he just swung through three consecutive sliders just waved at the first one he saw it was just all arms and that swing it was pitiful to watch so what do you do I mean today he was catching right you you need to give Cal a blow Cal catches a lot you know he’s obviously been playing through pain and and all that we we know the deal with Cal but Garver is a black hole in the lineup right now he had a good game in Chicago uh on this road trip that’s about it uh and it’s very few and far between that I can find the Silver Linings with with Mitch Garver right now uh it’s been really good against lefties which is going to be part of our disc discussion here uh but in general like moving forward even before you know Julio gets back and JP eventually gets back and this lineup is hopefully pretty much at what we would consider full strength you got to do something with this guy right yeah I think you’re already seeing it though uh I think the thing you do with Garber is pretty clear he’s the true backup catcher like nobody’s disputed that and he’s fine enough defensively to catch you know on the day that Cal needs a break uh that’s totally fine that’s something he can do it’s within his wheelhouse and he can still hit lefties okay pretty good against lefties so uh there’s also going to be some some cases where him coming to the plate might make sense because this is in a situation where you need base runners you need like a home run like you need something to go over the wall you need damage here and there’s an opportunity or there’s a possibility that Garver is your best chance to deliver that so that’s kind of the role you’re looking for here you’re looking against you know probably the probably the DH against lefties um no questions about it um and then he’ll obviously get some at bats against rties just from staying in the game as the DH a couple times when when they change pitchers and catching once a week probably give or take uh catching once a week uh will also give him some M bats because that one you can’t I mean you can kind of maneuver it right where You’ be like well there’s a lefty on the mount so let’s have him catch tonight and then that way we can give Cal a day off or whatever and so you can kind of maneuver it that way but for the most part you know he’s going to beat the DH when there’s a lefty on the mound and then he’ll probably catch I would say an average of one game a week um now we’ll see because the Mariners they do this interesting thing where they have an off day tomorrow and they have an off day on Monday so in theory you would think well he’ll probably catch on Sunday because it’s a day game after night game maybe not because they have that extra day off on Monday and now they’ve given Cal two days off of catching even though he was the DH today so we’ll see what they do going forward but I think the solution here is pretty clear uh the mitches need to share DH hanar gets the F bats against righties he’s been pretty good against righties somewhat surprisingly Garver gets the F bats against lefties he’s been pretty good against lefties somewhat surprisingly uh and then Garver just gets you know the rest of his batch just come from when he’s the backup Catcher And you just kind of have to you know you just kind of have to grit your teeth and hope that maybe he gives you something that day because uh you cannot have Cal righ catch the last what 50 games or however many games are left this season you have to give him a couple days off here down the stretch um so yeah I mean Garber is probably Gonna Catch 10 15 more times the rest of this way uh and then the rest of his that bat should be should come pretty much exclusively against left-handed pitching yeah so let’s go over the numbers here so Garver against righties this year and this is before today of course uh 145 266 290 that’s a 66 WRC plus but against lefties 235 347 471 that’s a 134 WRC plus then Mitch hanar on the other hand against lefties he’s historically been really good against lefties but not this year not at all 135 210 146 it’s a WRC plus of nine folks no I’m not missing another number it’s it’s nine that’s what is WC against makes Mitch Garver look like yordon Alvarez against righties uh he’s essentially it’s essentially the same thing that happened to AJ Pollock last year where it’s like yeah this guy is historically really good against lefties and now he’s just completely falling off a cliff against lefties uh I don’t get it there isn’t really a Rhyme or Reason to it it’s just this is the reality of the situation now uh but Mitch Haner that is against uh righties this year 240 3 330 429 that’s a 119 WRC plus that is more than respectable for Mitch hanar so uh the interesting thing though there is that the uh the Mariners have primarily used him against lefties it’s like they’re ignoring the numbers or they’re not aware of the of the numbers they’re not aware of what the the splits are this year it’s like they’re still trying to bank on what he’s done historically what he done over the course of his career rather than what he’s doing right now he has hit against some righties he has started against some righties but they’re also putting him in pretty much every time they face a lefty it’s really really weird but yeah clearly like Garver and hanar essentially have to platoon right at the DH at the DH spot and like at some point Han or Garver just going to have to face ay like at some point that’s going to happen because either he has to catch that day or you know he’s started the game against the Lefty at DH and now there’s a righty on the mound and it’s like well he’s our only catcher at least until September you can’t have you don’t have a the luxury of a third catcher now when you get to September uh you might have a third catcher on that might be your extra bench player that you bring up and if that’s the case then you can take out Garber against all righties essentially because you have this backup plan uh maybe it’s saala maybe it’s somebody else kind of has to be saala uh but yeah so I I think you know you just kind of have to try and and triage this a little bit there is a path here where the mitches are just the DH and it’s righty righties get hanar lefties get Garver and you just kind of play the match up there and that becomes a lot easier when if Julio Rodriguez comes back um because then you have your three out you have really have four outfielders at that point ahead of hanar assuming that Victor robbles can you know get back in the lineup and play on a fairly Reg basis that’s kind of going to be a a load management a pain management type of thing so there might be days where he’s just not available like today uh but it’s just something you have to deal with and when hanar gets or when Julio gets back you can go Randy Julio uh reallyy Robles and wri uh they can kind of share that Duty and and then also Dylan Moore eventually when JP comes back we’ll also be able to throw into that mix so yeah I do think that the hanar uh the hanar Garver DH uh plan is really simple and it’s right in front of you it’s just yeah if you stick to it if you’re strict with that there’s a path to having a pretty decent player there yeah if you if like you look at it like like you said garver’s got like a 130 against lefties hanar yeah so like if you get 110 out of your DH spot from the rest of the year splitting the duties between these two guys that’s a bonus that’s a plus like that that is an above average bat which yeah you just need as many of those in your lineup as you can get so uh the mitches compliment each other pretty well here at least based on what they’ve done so far will they continue to do to do that down the stretch I don’t know I mean I guess we’ll have to wait and see but that’s really your only option is for them to share that DH job yeah and honestly like before you let Garver face another righty i’ I’d honestly rather give those DH BS to freaking Leo reos and Jason vosler at this point like Garver just looks so lost right now especially when he sees anything with spin from the right side I have no interest in watching him hit against another righty yeah they’re still going wi to do it like let’s be real about it they’re still going to do it I’m just saying like me personally I have no interest watching them do that right uh they’re pretty much out of excuses now but those excuses go away entirely when Julio returns yeah because now against rties rley or roess are better bets to get a hit uh against ory so one of them can DH and hey you know robless has this hip issue thing going on having DH days probably not gonna be a bad thing yeah yeah and you’ll still be in a decent spot defensively uh with with rley Randy and and Julio so uh it’s not the ideal uh Trio of outfielders defensively uh you’d rather have robas out there but yeah if you need to manage this injury with him then that’s probably the best way to go about it and that’s what we’re going to talk about now uh the injuries continue to pile up for the Mayers it’s not just ress it’s also Gregory Santos it’s also Hy palanco we’ll go over all of that in just a moment but first a reminder this episode of the locked on Mars podcast is brought to you by prize pick prize pick is the easiest and most exciting way to play daily fantasy sports unlike other apps on prize picks it’s just you against the numbers all you do is pick more or less on two to six player stat projections and watch the winnings roll in you can now win up to 100 times your money on prize picks with as little as four correct picks you could turn $10 into $1,000 prize picks is available in more than 30 States across the country including California Texas and Georgia and a general rule of thumb here if they breathe air and they’re scheduled to pitch against the Mariners it’s probably a good idea to pick more on their strikeouts download the price picks app today and use the promo code locked on MLB for a first deposit match up to $100 that’s promo code locked on MLB on priz picks for first deposit match up to $100 pick more pick less it’s that easy and you’re listening to the locked on Mariners postgame show once again you can catch the Mariners and the Phillies this weekend on the mar Hometown broadcast serus XM via the sxm app all you have to do to find that is Search the word Mariners so injuries continue to pile up for the mirrors uh today Gregory Santos had to leave his outing prematurely once again for the second time uh over the last uh 10 days nine days when when when was the angel series it was about eight or nine days ago that he had to leave that game um this time wasn’t a knee issue like it was the last time he had to leave uh this time it’s a bicep uh issue which is interesting cuz when they came out to check him on on the mountain he didn’t really signal anything towards his his arm or his bicep seemed more like he was dealing with like a back issue or maybe he was sick or something that’s what I was thinking but yeah it turns out to be a bicep and he’s going to have an MRI tomorrow so we’ll find out more probably on Friday once they uh once they’re back at the Ballpark and Scott service talks to the media so we probably won’t have an answer on that for a little while I assume uh JT shagu is probably going to become a little bit more important here though for the Mariners uh if something’s going on with uh with Santos uh then Victor ruas of course didn’t play today he was unavailable uh that’s why you didn’t see him pinch hit for Mitch Garver uh in the uh 10th inning or a pinch hit in general uh over the course of the day uh he’s been dealing with a hip issue and Scott service today uh said that that’s going to be something that he’s just going to have to manage it seems it doesn’t seem like that’s going to going to be something that he’s going to get the day off today they’re going to have the off day tomorrow and then he’s going to be fine and it’s going to go away by Friday so that’s something that he might have to deal with here for the next couple weeks it might be something that he has to deal with for the entire rest of the season we we’ll have to see I mean yesterday he was dealing with it during the game I mean he looked pretty slow getting down the first base line but he also made that leaping catch in center field so who knows maybe it just kind of comes and goes for him um he’s got to pick his spots a little bit Yeah Yeah soing an injury is yeah and um you know I I didn’t think we would ever say this we’d ever get to the point of saying this but uh Victor robas is a huge piece of this thing for the Mariners right now so uh losing him for any sort of extended period of time would be a massive blow right now go back to June 31 yeah and tell that person like hey Victor Robles is going to like tweak a hip and you’re going to be convinced the season is over because he’s your best hitter See How likely they are could believe you yeah uh but yeah and then uh H palano has been dealing with KN thing that’s not new he was uh pulled early from at least one game the one in Chicago did he get pulled from another game since then feel like he got pulled uh yesterday or uh maybe Friday night yeah I can’t remember but he was pulled late in this game as well um that’s just something that he’s managing I’m not sure if like something else cropped up here if it got worse it was a tied game cuz like in the in the other at least one instance that I know for sure he was pulled like that game was already well in hand for the mirrors yeah this time this is a tie ball game in which like his turn in the lineup wound up coming up again and right yeah but it still came up again uh in the 10th inning um and uh you know like I could kind of see it as maybe like all right let’s get him out of the game let’s put in revas who’s a better Defender fine right uh but again tie ball game I don’t know it’s a little little weird considering that PO has been one of your better hitters here over the last couple weeks uh so yeah things are not great on the injury front for the Mariners right now which is another reason that I was hoping they would get that you know extra third bat at the deadline but nothing we can do about it now uh just hopefully none of these injuries are that serious yeah I I think like by the way this isn’t even mentioning Andre Munos who was warming up in the bottom of the eth to pitch the ninth and then they went to Snyder and Snyder did his job and he got out of it and then when the 10th inning rolled around it was Diaz and it was uh Thorton do do you think maybe that was just like it’s a safe situation or nothing for Muno today like that’s the only way he’s available yeah yeah I guess but like at that point so basically what you’re saying is when you don’t throw him in the ninth like he’s just down for the rest of the day and now we burned our best option like I I don’t see the the point in that and and by the way in the 10th inning the leadoff hitter is Rafael freaking Des like that’s when you use Muno obviously Garcia was down today that’s very clear um he’s pitched three the last four it’s also a little weird because you have the day off tomorrow as well right um and that that was kind of the weird thing with Garcia not being available today yeah he’s pitched three of the last four but he’s thrown like a total of 30 pitches yeah but he’s coming off of an elbow issue or forearm issue elbow issue so they want to keep him down today fine whatever accept that yeah Muno warming up getting hot and being like ready to go only to never appear in this game that’s a red flag for me and as far as I can tell nobody’s asked about a postgame so maybe that was just a situation where it was like you know he’s only going to pitch with the lead otherwise we’re not going to use him today I don’t like that I don’t like that at all but um you know it’s one of those things where whatever they’re still trying to play a long game and I get it Muno has back things so maybe the back just flared up and then there’s like you know what let’s not push it yeah that’s kind of my thought is just like we’re not going to push him BEC unless we have a chance to win this game sure but can somebody ask the question is all I’m asking because it appears nobody asked why Muno wasn’t in this game I haven’t seen a quote about it I haven’t seen a tweet about it nothing by the way not using Munos or just how they how they handled the bullpen situation there in the 10th that’s not why they lost they lost because they didn’t score in the top of the 10th that’s why they lost yeah you need to score multiple runs if you’re the away team I see people I see people blaming Scott and his Bullpen usage and not walking Des whatever you you lost that game when you didn’t score on the top of the sure you still should have walked Des but whatever like you lost that game a couple times before that moment um if anything like if you’re gonna get on Scott for anything how about uh you know not pulling Kirby at 93 94 pitches when the guy gets on first base when you’re up by one now kind of makes sense because you didn’t have Garcia today you knew that yeah and so it’s like okay well how much do I really have and keep in mind Gilbert only went three Innings uh in that first game and keep in mind you your middle guys were bad yesterday so you had to use your high leverage guys in a game that you once LED 10 to three so all these things kind of come back and they factor in so when a pitch starting pitch only goes three innings in the first game of a series and you go well whatever no like it comes back to bite you later on in the series it can and it looks like it did today um you know we’ve seen we’ve seen Scott like do this before where like he’ll throw a pitcher who’s near the end of the line back out there and the idea most people have is like oh he gets until a guy reaches and then you go to the bullpen and Scott just kind of you know no we’re just gonna keep him out there keep him out there so like if you’re gonna blame him for anything today that’s the one uh but even that it’s like okay well they’re they don’t have Garcia like they really should try and they probably need to it’s like like do you really trust Taylor saso right now do you really trust awesome V right now no I you don’t trust Trent Thorton either you shouldn’t so I mean all of those guys have have really struggled as of late now of course like I mentioned earlier on in the show like both had a had a nice outing today which is really good to see that’s really encouraging to see um you know SNY was obviously excellent out of the bullpen outside of the you know the couple of hits that he gave up uh but he was able to work out of that um s is uh he’s pitching himself out of a job right now I believe he has an option left and the Mayers might take it he threw 16 pitches today five strikes yeah the problem is though he’s the only Lefty they have they’ve already sent I he’s Notting out lefties I know I know he’s not you know who you know who can get out lefties Jimmy Garcia andr Munos yeah Colin Snider like yeah I’d rather go and get a guy who can get out lefties than somebody who theoretically should be able to get out lefties so actually I forgot Jonathan Diaz this year so I mean whatever okay yeah like he’s present but I’m I was just I was just saying you know that that was wrong to say that they only have one Lefty they have two technically yeah right so you know the it’s going to be an interesting couple days here to see how they manage this they’ll have to get an MRI on Santos when they get back there’s a possible I st uh Roes could hit could hit the I it seems like they’re going to really try and manage that one uh palano obviously keeps getting pulled out of these games with his knee issue but he’s hitting right now uh so there could be some new faces you know coming in pretty quick and did did Shaka get added today did I miss that Shak I don’t think he did no okay so I mean yeah prob Club in in Seattle that could be saso there the course SP move Santos or Diaz or yeah Santos so it’ probably be Diaz but yeah uh I I’m 95% sure that shark wall did not get at it I didn’t see the release or anything like that yeah I didn’t either so that’s why I asked right so shark wall is probably the guy they added the pin when they get back uh regardless of if Santos needs the iil or not and then they might need another one uh I think either today or sorry tomorrow or Friday we’ll do a segment or maybe an episode of like five guys like in the Mariners system right now who aren’t on the 26 man who could help the Mariners down the stretch here and there there’s a few arms on that list so yeah uh but yeah the the Mariners are banged up right now we still don’t have any idea when you’re going to get Julio back he is eligible to be activated on Friday that is the first day he’s eligible doesn’t sound like he did tell Randy a Rosara that he expects to be back on the home stand right nine game home stand so that could be this Friday that could be next Sunday right and so uh yeah but he is is eligible to be activated on Friday uh we’ll see maybe they activate him and he just has to DH for a couple days you know like so we’ll see what version of Julio you get when he does get back but you might be able to activate him on Friday um but hopefully robless is in the line up on Friday and and gonna need them against Philly now the good news is you’re catching Philly at a pretty good time they just got swept by the Yankees uh and you’re facing four five and one so you do have to face wheeler on Sunday you’re countering with Logan Gilbert pretty good uh and but you’re countering their they’re four and five with Bryce Miller and Brian W so you’re not countering them with like C Kirby Miller and woo are better than the two scrubs they’re throwing out there so you know you’re catching them at a pretty good time obviously that doesn’t matter the Mayers are playing really poor baseball overall for the last month or so uh we know that pretty much any pitcher any starting pitcher or any pitcher in general can just shut them down for six seven Innings regardless of talking about Colby Allard and like Tony Phillips like no it does it that does feel a little bit different now with like Randy and Turner who’ve been solid since they had a couple hits today yeah had a bad strike out third nobody out had a popup Randy had a popup with a runner on third and one out didn’t hit it deep enough to score a run so well those guys you know didn’t do much today but they’ve been good since they arrival so yeah obviously it does feel like there’s some floor to the offense now all right so I’m putting this here because we actually already talked about this Colby and I in this recording but it’s kind of glitchy and I didn’t want to just cut it because this does need to be said this does need to be put out there this does need to be acknowledged now I’m going to have to clean this up a little bit but Mitch Garver after the game uh was very candid speaking to the media he said quote this is probably the hardest I’ve ever had to grind this is by far the worst I’ve ever played in my career tough on myself and my family with the death threats the quote unquote retire and quote unquote you suck and quote unquote effing un alive yourself and all that stuff it’s getting old the only way I change it is if I play better but it’s like continuing right now I’ve already accepted the fact that I’m not going to hit above 200 this year and I don’t know it might not get better who knows maybe it just gets worse I don’t know but I show up to the field every day prepared to play prepared to get better and work hard and control what I can control in the people out there that say certain things they say whatever they want I think I bring a lot to this team I’ve never quit anything certainly not going to quit this they’re going to have to rip the Jersey off my back that’s fine that’s an easy way out I could happily retire right now go home and live a great life with my family but that’s not what I want to do I made a two-year commitment to this team they believe in me my teammates believe in me so it’s a matter of just making it click and when it does good things will happen so look I I’m as disappointed about Mitch garage struggles as anyone as we just talked about earlier on in the show he is more than deserving of criticism for what he is doing or rather not doing on the field right now that said there is no place no justification whatsoever to be sending him or anyone death threats okay there’s no place for that in our community whatsoever and I hope that no one within the locked on mirors community has participated that in that and if you have go away we don’t want you here all right stop listening to our show unsubscribe do whatever you feel you need to do yell at us in the comments don’t care go away bye-bye all right because there is no place for that whatsoever that is garbage seek help so that’s going to do it for our show but before we get out of here a reminder is always that lockon has launched the first ever National Sports 247 streaming Channel on YouTube and now it’s also available on Amazon Fire TV in the free Fire TV channels app locked on sports today is here for you 24/7 covering the top sports stories of the day with the local Experts of locked on plus our national shows covering every League find locked on sports today now available on the free Fire TV channels app thank you so much for joining us here on the locked on MAR postgame show for kobby patod I’m tiang Gonzalez be sure to give us a follow on Twitter at lormer you can follow me at tiang gon Colby at cpad 11 that cp11 you can also find all that stuff in the description of this episode have yourself a beautiful baseball day and we’ll see you next 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An otherwise good road trip ended on a sour note as the Mariners dropped their rubber match with the Red Sox by a score of 3-2 on Wednesday. Ty and Colby discuss George Kirby’s outing, Mitch Garver’s horrific day at the plate, the laundry list of injuries Seattle has endured, and more.

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