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Today the Mariners came to the End of the Road of this three-game set and completed the sweep of the Tigers with a decisive shutout win, 7-0. The pitching staff was Cruisin, and the offense was Money, so Ooh Baby Baby, Get Ready to read all about a delightful day in Motown.<\/p>\n
Yesterday, we saw Marco Gonzales struggle a little with the aggressive Tigers, uncharacteristically missing outside the zone, falling behind in counts, and giving up some hard contact. That wasn’t the case with today’s starter Logan Gilbert, who decided to go with a fastball-heavy approach, essentially carving his arsenal down to two pitches, the fastball and slider. it was all [He] Needed To Get By.<\/p>\n
Gilbert got the Tigers whiffing after his fastball 31% of the time and whiffing after his slider 60% (!) of the time, occasionally busting out the curveball for fun, as he cruised through six innings on just two hits, making the Tigers batters look like a Chain Of Fools. One of those hits was a hard-hit Javier B\u00e1ez single in the first, the other, a weakly-hit ground ball single from Riley Greene in the third. The third inning was the only time Gilbert faced anything approaching danger from these Tigers, starting the inning off with his one walk of the day, to Tucker Barnhart. With two on after the Greene single and one out, Gilbert got Victor Reyes swinging, and Taylor Trammell\u2014called up today as part of roster expansion, hooray for Thai\u2014made a sweet diving catch to end the inning:<\/p>\n
And that would be it for Gilbert, who proceeded to methodically dismantle the Tigers offense over the next three innings. He said he felt like his slider, which he recently made a \u201cslight tweak\u201d to, felt really good today, so he leaned on it heavily, and was happy with his command of the zone\u2014being on the edges without being too far in the middle of the plate, allowing him to whip the fastball past Tigers hitters and rack up nine strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Gilbert’s day was cut short at just 89 pitches after six innings, because the bullpen was rested and the Mariners had built a big lead by that point as the Tigers offense Haven’t Done Nothin’ all game; the whole thing had the feeling of finishing off a not-too-taxing school assignment having put in just the right amount of effort. Gold stars for Logan, and for the rest of the bullpen, who finished off the Tigers with three more scoreless innings. Matt Brash destroyed the Tigers with some nasty sliders, striking out two in his inning, and almost looked apologetic about it. The other roster expansion callup and the other MB in the bullpen, Matthew Boyd, making his Mariners debut, needed all of eight pitches to collect three ground ball outs. In those eight pitches, Boyd showed off his starter’s arsenal of curveball, changeup, four-seam and two-seam; it will be really interesting to see how the team uses him going forward. Penn Murfee allowed a couple of hits\u2014Greene’s second hit of the day and a little parachute shot off the bat of Harold Castro\u2014but was able to escape damage and proving he was up to Second That Emotion and preserve the shutout.<\/p>\n
And while we’re awarding gold stars, there’s gotta be one for this catch Sam Haggerty almost made with Brash on the mound: <\/p>\n
Mark this down as the day Sam Haggerty broke Aaron Goldsmith. It’s a shame that wasn’t ruled a catch\u2014you can see here why it was ruled to be net-aided:<\/p>\n