![]() ![]() And today, at the very least, it's allowed me to get on top of that pitch." "At times, I tried to see the ball maybe a little bit too deep, try to make sure it's the exact right pitch to hit instead of just being a bit more aggressive on the fastballs. "I've just been a little bit more aggressive with the fastball," he said. While he was trying to find timing, Moore also made some adjustments with his swing and approach to make him a more viable hitter against the fastballs at the top half of the zone. Definitely seeing more pitches regularly without a lot of delays helps." "I've just kind of got to rely on my preparation and my confidence comes from that. "Getting timing in my role is definitely a little bit different," he said. That was followed by a stretch of 14 plate appearances without a hit. Moore went hitless in his first 16 plate appearances before hitting a homer vs. He looked rusty and played sparingly for the first month of his return. We're gonna give him more opportunity to get more starts and he was huge today."Īfter offseason surgery to repair a core muscle and an oblique strain caused him to miss spring training and more complications delayed his return to the season, Moore was activated from the injured list on June 5after a truncated rehab stint. "For a guy who hasn't played very much, you are starting to see it coming with his timing, his rhythm. "Dylan Moore had an unbelievable game," Servais said. The Mariners pushed the lead to 8-3 in the fifth inning against the Twins bullpen, highlighted by Moore's three-run blast and RBI single from Eugenio Suarez. Rodriguez, who hit a pair of homers in Tuesday's win, pushed the lead to 3-0 when he clubbed a solo homer into the upper deck in left. Moore hit his first homer of the game, a line drive to left field that made it 2-0. Rodriguez led off the game with a double to right-center and scored on Teoscar Hernandez's broken-bat single to center. He threw 95 pitches in 3 2/3 innings, giving up four runs on seven hits with two walks and seven strikeouts. Seattle hitters fouled off 25 pitches from Ryan. The Mariners made Twins All-Star starter Joe Ryan work in the 90-degree heat, fouling off borderline pitches and forcing him back into the strike zone. "They were outstanding today," Servais said. Munoz bounced back from a blown save in the series opener to work a scoreless ninth despite allowing the leadoff hitter to reach. Speier produced a 1-2-3 seventh, facing the Twins' toughest lefty hitters. Seattle needed every one of those runs as the Twins stormed back late in the game, scoring four runs in the sixth inning and reducing an 8-3 lead to just one run.īut the heavily used Mariners bullpen was able to maintain the one-run lead with Gabe Speier, Justin Topa and Andres Munoz each working a scoreless inning to close out the win. Moore hit a pair of homers and drove in four runs while Rodriguez had a pair of doubles and a solo homer to lead a Mariners offense that has looked productive in the past few days. ![]() Using the rejuvenated offensive power production of Julio Rodriguez and Dylan Moore, the Mariners had just a little more than the Twins on the day. With temperatures in the 90s and the humidity elevated after thunderstorms in the early morning hours, the afternoon affair featured plenty of offense and homers. ![]() You've got to dig down on days like today and find a way. The guys are dragging a little bit with the heat out there today, but heck of effort. Tuesday.Īfter playing 13 games in 13 days coming out of the All-Star break, Seattle will have Thursday off before opening a three-game series in Phoenix vs. That will be answered in the days ahead with the MLB trade deadline at 3 p.m. But we end up winning the series and you feel good about it."īut is it too late to convince management to invest in immediate help for this team? If you look at all three game, we could have won all three and we easily could have lost all three. "Obviously, the Twins are one of the hottest teams in baseball coming out of the break, so to get in here and win two out of three is big. "Interesting series," manager Scott Servais said. The Mariners improved to 52-50 and still sit behind four teams for the third wild-card spot. After dropping the first game of the series, Seattle stormed back to win the next two and take the three-game series over Minnesota. It's certainly trending in the right direction with Wednesday's 8-7 victory over the Twins. ![]()
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