Mallex Smith should’ve probably walked, but he’ll take a walkoff single instead.
Smith punched a 3-2 fastball from Jose Cisneros up the middle to score Kyle Seager and give the Mariners 3-2 win over the Detroit Tigers on Friday night at T-Mobile Park.
With the win the Mariners have now won three games in a row, something they haven’t done since June 19-21.
In a season that’s been filled with far more inconsistency and struggles than reasonably expected, left-hander Yusei Kikuchi delivered a solid performance.
Kikuchi pitched 6 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on seven hits with no walks and four strikeouts but didn’t figure in the outcome since his team couldn’t push across a run.