By Terry Mosher<\/p>\n
TOP OF THE TOWN<\/strong> \u2013 The Mariners have one of the best, if not the best, starting pitching in MLB. They \u2013 Ryan Woo, Bryce Miller, George Kirby, Logan\u00a0 Gilbert are the youngsters and Luis Castillo is the veteran, and officially the ace According to MLB, the Mariners rank 5th<\/sup> in ERA with a 3.74, which is behind Atlanta (.3.58), Houston (.3,65) , Minnesota (3.69) and Tampa (3.70). They are tied with Minnesota for the WHIP lead at 1.17. (That\u2019s walks, hits and innings pitched). \u00a0The sad part is the Mariners are 25th<\/sup> in hitting (Detroit which beat the Mariners Friday Is 29th<\/sup>). If this Mariners group stays together and avoids injury they should be all \u2013world next season. Unfortunately, the 2023 Mariners can\u2019t hit their way out of a wet paper bag. The Mariners strikeout rate is high. They are third in strikeouts at 882. Minnesota has whiffed 920 times and Detroit is at 887. I almost can predict that when the Mariners get two or more runners on with less than two outs, they aren\u2019t going to score. It\u2019s frustrating to watch. Manager Scott Servais must be pulling his hair out. I hate to see Julio come to bat. He swings so hard and fast it\u2019s like he\u2019s trying to cut down the biggest Redwood in the land. I sent him a message on Facebook (I\u2019m pretty sure he didn\u2019t get it) to slow your bat down and don\u2019t take as big a cut. Just catch the ball with your bat and flick your wrists and the ball will go far. No need to swing from your butt. Julio needs to be coached. He\u2019s too talented to fumble his way through games. Oh well, that\u2019s enough for today. Stay safe.<\/p>\n Be well pal.<\/p>\n Be careful out there.<\/p>\n Have a great day.<\/p>\n You are loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Terry Mosher TOP OF THE TOWN \u2013 The Mariners have one of the best, if not the best, starting…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4377,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4376\/revisions\/4377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}