{"id":31664,"date":"2022-06-01T06:04:49","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T06:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariners-pour-on-the-offense-win-10-0\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T06:04:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T06:04:49","slug":"mariners-pour-on-the-offense-win-10-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/mariners-pour-on-the-offense-win-10-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners Pour on the Offense, win 10-0"},"content":{"rendered":"
I’m a craft beer lady, through and through. Give me basically anything but an IPA, DIPA, or TIPA with a silly name and I’m hooked. Fortunately, I live in the smallest state in the country and the craft beer community is as tightknit as they come – not to mention getting to any of your favorites doesn’t require that much time (although Rhode Islanders will tell you anything longer than 20 minutes away requires a packed lunch). <\/p>\n
Despite not being that far from any of them, I still prefer a particular one right around the corner from where I live – Moniker Brewery.<\/p>\n
Moniker has practically become my second home. It’s the first place I take people when they come to visit me and they all but have a Fuzzy Distance (Hefeweizen) freshly poured for me every time I walk in the front door. <\/p>\n
This past weekend a new patron decided to visit the brewery, presumably to try a flight.<\/p>\n
That’s right, the patron was a bird and at this point I’m wholly convinced that they got lost on their way back down from Boston and is actually the entire Baltimore Orioles team.<\/p>\n
Whether it was George Kirby’s filthy sliders or the Seattle offense’s ability to find every gap in the infield, the Mariners made Baltimore look downright lost at sea tonight.<\/p>\n
For George Kirby, tonight began looking a bit like his previous two starts where he gave up a combined 16 hits and 9 earned runs against Oakland and Boston. Fortunately for him, and the merry band of Elon friends and family that we’ve grown to love, it didn’t stay that way. <\/p>\n
Despite Baltimore holding the 27th lowest walk rates in the league at 7.5%, Kirby gave up a walk only four batters into his inning. That walk turned out to be his only one of the evening and was immediately followed with a much better outcome – an inning-ending strikeout (which is totally better). <\/p>\n
From there on out Kirby focused on brewing up the right combination of pitches to get seven more batters to strikeout. You know what goes very well with a crisp craft brew? Sliders.<\/p>\n