5/21/19 Can we hold the Rangers to under ten runs game thread

[DavidGee24]

Mariners:
Mitch Haniger (R) CF
Domingo Santana (R) LF
Daniel Vogelbach (L) DH
Edwin Encarnacion (R) 1B
Omar Narvaez (L) C
Jay Bruce (L) RF
Tim Beckham (R) 3B
J.P. Crawford (L) SS
Shed Long (L) 2B

Tommy Milone (L) P

Rangers:
Logan Forsythe (R) SS
Willie Calhoun (L) LF
Hunter Pence (R) DH
Nomar Mazara (L) RF
Joey Gallo (L) CF
Asdrubal Cabrera (S) 3B
Rougned Odor (L) 2B
Ronald Guzman (L) 1B
Jeff Mathis (R) C

Loretta Lynn (R) P

Well, three straight games the Rangers have scored in double figures off our pitching staff and today we put on the bump one Tommy Milone, who in his last three years as a major league pitcher has pitched 192 innings and given up FIFTY-TWO home runs.

52. In 192 innings. WOW. Even when Bert "Be Home" Blyleven gave up an MLB-record 50 home runs in 1986 it took him 271 innings to do it. Amazingly, in 1987 he gave up 46 in 267 innings, yet in both seasons his ERA was only 4.01. In 1988 he gave up only 21 home runs in 201 innings yet his ERA ballooned up to 5.43. Considering that the third-highest total of home runs he gave up in a season was only 24 that was two really weird years for ol' Bert.

Meanwhile, the Coal Miner's Daughter takes the hill for the Rangers.

[rockycola]

The Mariners could win tonight 10-9 and if the Ranger hit nine home runs, I don't care. However, those Milone numbers are alarming; hadn't realized that.
Keep the ball in the park unless you hit for the Mariners.

[Ziskmagic]

Not surprisingly, our 2019 pitching staff is giving up more runs per 9 innings (6.04) than any Mariner pitching staff ever. This of course includes the entire steroid era and the Carlos Silva years. Quite an accomplishment, overshadowed only by the worst defense I've ever witnessed in professional sports.

I wasn't expecting much this season...and the M's have still under-delivered.

Tommy Milone to the rescue!

[Ziskmagic]

Lynn looks sharp and unafraid early. How does Mitch not swing at a strike 3 fastball down the middle?

[IStillLoveTheMs]

Watch Milone pitch relatively well and the M's give him a contract like they did Leblanc.

[Ziskmagic]

Milone won't last 3 innings

[DavidGee24]

Lynn looks sharp and unafraid early. How does Mitch not swing at a strike 3 fastball down the middle?

He's done that quite a few times and he's tied for the MLB lead in strikeouts with Harper and Gallo if you can believe that.

Good first inning for Milone even with the 31 pitches.

[IStillLoveTheMs]

Milone won't last 3 innings

Amazing how a guy with a 6.79 ERA since 2016 keeps finding work.

[IStillLoveTheMs]

Why is JP Crawford so bad?

[DavidGee24]

Why is JP Crawford so bad?

On a major league infield that throw has got to be gloved. Won't be an unearned run if Gallo scores but it kind of is.