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.
Mariners once again can’t come up with the big hit, lose winnable game 3-2
