Evans v. deGrom
Three great things about last night
- One of my favorite kinds of box scores, where the visiting team scores in the first and ninth, and the home team scores in the middle inning. A temporal pincer movement.
- The return of Matt Brash, amplified by our first Brash-to-Speier-to-Muñoz of the year. Reader, I slobbered.
- Kate’s masterfully unhinged recap.
Three things I’m looking forward to today
- Logan Evans’ first road start. Evans will look to build on a solid debut last Sunday. When a guy has six pitches and uses them all regularly, it can take some time for us to really get a good handle on them. More data today!
- The Mariners face Jacob deGrom again. I’m hoping the Mariners can repeat their performance from the last time they faced him, one of the ten worst starts of his career. But if not, at least we get to see an all-time great.
- Being halfway through the season series in Globe Life Field, my #30-ranked stadium in how it plays on TV.
Lineups
Righty deGrom means we get Polanco back in the lineup, as well as Rowdy at first base. Rowdy at first base is not my first choice, but I will take anything over Donovan Solano, who is currently running a wRC+ in the bottom 0.003% of the 49,970 non-pitchers with at least 50 PAs in a season. (Jorge Polanco is currently in the top 99.992%.)
Game Info
First pitch: 11:35 am PT
TV: Wherever you ROOT, whether that’s on the cable channel, the MLB TV package, or the brand new ROOT Sports app
Radio: Ol’ reliable
Today in Mariners History
- 2024: Logan Gilbert allows just two hits over eight shutout innings, completing a stretch of 21 starts in a row by the Mariners pitching staff without allowing more than two earned runs. The last team to do that was the 1917 White Sox. The only team on record with a longer stretch is the 1915 Washington Senators with 22.