Mariners beat Guardians in first game of Big Series; Here’s how it happened

The Seattle Mariners followed up their three-game sweep of the Texas Rangers with an 8-5 win over the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday night. It’s a great start to a long road trip (Cleveland, Miami, Tampa Bay) for the M’s, who now have a 44-31 record this year. That’s a season-high 13 games over .500 for Seattle. As we do after every game, here’s how it happened:

This game had a lot of twists and turns. The M’s looked like they could have been dispatched early, and then they beat Cleveland 7-1. However, the M’s got much closer than they needed to in the late innings, and that could prove to be their undoing later in the series.

The M’s trailed 1-0 in the second inning after the Guardians loaded the bases with no outs against Bryce Miller, but Miller was able to limit the damage to just one run, keeping the M’s in the game.

The M’s took a 2-1 lead in the third inning with a two-run homer by JP Crawford.

Cal Raleigh scored the 3-1 goal with a double in the same inning.

Mitch Garver closed the third inning with a 4-1 double to left-fielder, giving Raleigh a run.

Crawford increased his lead to 5-1 in the fifth inning. Dylan Moore increased his lead to 7-1 with a home run. Luke Raley had also hit a home run earlier.

The Guardians struck back with two runs against Bryce Miller in the sixth inning to make the game 7-3. They then scored a run against Tayler Saucedo in the seventh and Trent Thornton in the eighth with the score at 8-3. Andres Munoz worked the final 1.2 innings for the save, his 13th of the season.

That the M’s have to use Austin Voth, Saucedo, Ryne Stanek, Thornton and Munoz in a game they once led 7-1 is not ideal… Bryan Woo is playing Wednesday and will likely have a pitch count, so who knows how manager Scott Servais will handle the pen… Raley also made a great defensive effort, hitting 2 for 5 with the home run… He was thrown out in the ninth inning for questioning balls and strikes… Julio Rodriguez hit 0 for 5 with two strikeouts… Garver hit 2 for 5 with two doubles… Crawford was on base four times… Moore scored three runs as part of his 2 for 4 performance… Miller played 5.2 innings for the win. He struck out two in 5.2 innings.

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