The Mariners lost tonight, 6-0, against the A’s. There is not much to say: The A’s scored five of their six runs in the third inning against Chris Flexen. After a solid and tidy first two innings, Flexen ran into trouble right away in the third when Matt Chapman worked an eight-pitch walk in which Flexen’s misses weren’t particularly close. Those big misses maybe set up a normally aggressive Elvis Andrus to work a 13-pitch at-bat which ended in a double when Flexen let a little cutter leak over the middle of the plate too far. A nice play by Fraley in the outfield kept Chapman, who had walked, from scoring, but then Site Enemy Mark Canha jumped on a first-pitch fastball to score one, and then another when Andrus ran through the stop sign but Trammell’s throw was off-line.
Mariners go down without a fight, lose 6-0
