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2016 Seattle Mariners Game 4 @ Rangers

Posted on April 11, 2016 at 09:01 PM.

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Mariners bullpen comes to the rescue in home opener

Seattle - A pregame injury to scheduled starter Taijuan Walker pressed the bullpen into action to try and hold down the fort for the Mariners home opener. They did way more than that as five mariner pitchers combined to give up only three hits and shut out the Oakland Athletics in the M's 2016 debut at Safeco Field. Vidal Nuno got the call to start and went six innings only giving up two hits and a walk to A's hitters. The Mariners were able to get out of a couple jams late as an error by Leonys Martin in the outfield put a runner on third with only one out in the seventh, and the A's got a lead off double in the eighth. Mariner relievers worked through those jams, to hand it to Steve Cishek in the ninth, who cooly struck out the side to close it out. The Mariners lone run came in the fifth on a solo home run by Franklin Gutierrez. His first hit of the season spoiled what was otherwise an outstanding performance for A's starter Kendall Graveman in a loss. The two teams come back to do it again tomorrow night as Nate Karns (7-5, 3.67 ERA in 2015) will take the hill for the M's against A's ace Sonny Gray (0-1, 4.50 ERA).

Oakland Athletics at Seattle Mariners
Apr 8, 2016	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Oakland (1-4)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
Seattle (3-1)	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	X	1	7	1
W: Vidal Nuno (1-0) L: Kendall Graveman (0-1) S: Steve Cishek - 2

Oakland Athletics
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Burns, CF	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.227
Semien, SS	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.300
Davis, LF	4	0	0	0	0	2	0	.176
Canha, 1B	4	0	0	0	0	3	0	.400
Valencia, 3B	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	.211
Butler, DH	3	0	1	0	0	1	0	.200
Reddick, RF	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.235
Crisp, PR-RF	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	.000
Lowrie, 2B	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.187
Phegley, C	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.154
TEAM TOTALS	30	0	3	0	1	10	0
BATTING: 2B: J. Reddick (1), B. Butler (1)
BASERUNNING: SB: C. Crisp (1)

Seattle Mariners
HITTERS	AB	R	H	RBI	BB	SO	HR	AVG
Aoki, LF	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.375
Marte, SS	3	0	0	0	0	1	0	.235
Cano, 2B	3	0	2	0	1	0	0	.500
Cruz, DH	4	0	1	0	0	0	0	.118
Seager, 3B	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.187
Gutierrez, RF	3	1	1	1	0	1	1	.077
Lind, 1B	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	.167
Clevenger, C	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.375
Martin, CF	3	0	1	0	0	0	0	.400
TEAM TOTALS	29	1	7	1	1	2	1
BATTING: 2B: R. Cano (1), L. Martin (1) HR: F. Gutierrez (1) RBI: F. Gutierrez (1) SAC: K. Marte GIDP: K. Seager
FIELDING: E: L. Martin (1)

Oakland Athletics
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Graveman (L, 0-1)	7.0	6	1	1	1	2	1	1.29
Axford	1.0	1	0	0	0	0	0	6.75
TEAM TOTALS	8.0	7	1	1	1	2	1

Seattle Mariners
PITCHERS	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA
Nuno (W, 1-0)	6.0	2	0	0	1	3	0	0.00
Scribner (H, 2)	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00
Furbush (H, 1)	0.1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0.00
Benoit (H, 2)	0.2	0	0	0	0	1	0	0.00
Cishek (S, 2)	1.0	0	0	0	0	3	0	0.00
TEAM TOTALS	9.0	3	0	0	1	10	0