Lookout Landing · Sep 2, 2023
Mariners understandably can’t score early, less understandably can’t score late, fall to Mets 2-1
Unsafe at any speedPitchers duels are a lot more fun to watch in June than in the September thick of a pennant race. When you’re at the point in the year where you’re living and dying on every pitch, it’s tough to enjoy the tip-your-cap loss. Unfortunately, it’s what the Mariners had in store for us tonight.
Logan Gilbert and Kodai Senga gave us one of the better pitching duels of the Mariners season. They might have pitched the game in Queens, but I think they had their pregame meal at a diner in LA.
The two of them went toe-to-toe all night. Senga started things off striking out J.P. Crawford on a nasty pitch, his trademark ghost forkball looking every bit as real as advertised.