Tommy Milone’s first pitch of Tuesday night’s game was announced at 7:10 p.m. By 7:11 p.m., the scoreboard of T-Mobile Park had placed a “1” in the score column for the Texas Rangers.
It was a suboptimal beginning to a forgettable start for the veteran left-hander in what would be an eventual 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers. Working without an opener for the first time since June 22, Milone pitched six innings, allowing six runs on nine hits and three homers to fall to 1-5 on the season.
Shin Soo-Choo, a Mariners prospect many years ago but lost in one of the many bad trades in this organization’s history, ambushed Milone’s first pitch of the game — an 86 mph fastball on the outside of the half — sending an opposite-field line drive over the wall in left-center for his sixth leadoff homer of the season.