Tonight the Seattle Mariners played the Oakland Athletics at T-Mobile Park. 800 miles to the south, the Modesto Nuts, Seattle’s High-A affiliate, took on the Stockton Ports, Oakland’s High-A affiliate. One of these games went better for the Mariners for the other, but both offered promising glimpses of the future.
In Seattle, the Mariners had a chance to win this game thanks to one of Yusei Kikuchi’s best starts as a Mariner. For the first time since early May, Kikuchi completed seven innings of work, surrendering just two earned runs on four hits, striking out five and walking just one.