The Mariners and Padres will play one more game before Seattle returns to divisional play, welcoming in the Rangers for a four-game AL West matchup where they’ll see Kumar Rocker make his debut, along with Texas’s high-priced pitching acquisitions in Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer. It’s a rough road ahead, and that includes tonight, when the Mariners will have to face part of the return in the Juan Soto trade, tough righty Michael King.
King struck out nine over six innings the last time he faced the Mariners in a game where the Mariners managed to scrape two runs off him and win thanks to one of Bryce Miller’s best performances of the season.