Lookout Landing · Aug 1, 2024
Mariners once again can’t come up with the big hit, lose winnable game 3-2
Baseball is a team sport, so it’s hard to pin a loss on a particular player. And to be fair, the Mariners struck out 10 times in this game, left 13 runners on base, were 1-for-14 with RISP, and four of the starting nine failed to record a single hit. But Mitch Garver’s 0-for-5 performance out of the eight-hole looms large in a game where scoring opportunities were slim; his -.409 WPA (Win Probability Added) is the worst I can remember recording for a single position player. Baseball is a team sport, but when Garver made his fifth out of the day, grounding out first-pitch swinging to strand runners on the bases in the top of the tenth, the Mariners’ fate in this game was effectively sealed.