PITTSBURGH — As a junior at Gonzaga in 2013, Marco Gonzales went 7-3 with a 2.80 earned-run average on the mound and led the Zags at the plate with a .311 batting average, earning him the John Olerud Award as college baseball’s best two-way player.
Which is a long way of saying this: The dude can hit a little.
Gonzales pitched one of his best games of the season and he had his first hit as a Mariner — a double off Pittsburgh starter Mitch Keller — to carry the Mariners to a 6-0 victory to open their three-game series against the Pirates on Tuesday night at PNC Park.