Only Julio Rodriguez Is Hitting Above .189 And The Red Sox Are About To Sweep Us In Our Own House

Alright, fam, listen up. We're on the ropes. The Boston Red Sox are here in the Emerald City, and after dropping the first two games, our Mariners are staring down a sweep right in our own house. It's Father's Day, and honestly, the way things are going, it feels like we need a miracle just to avoid getting completely embarrassed. These guys are supposed to be AL East cellar-dwellers, and they're making us look like we belong in the basement!

Our Bats Are Ghosting When We Need Them Most

I'm not gonna sugarcoat it, the offense has been absolutely brutal this series. Boston's left-handed pitchers, Ranger Suarez and Connelly Early, along with their relievers, have made our lineup look like little leaguers, throwing two-hitters in *both* of the first two games. TWO-HITTERS! Are you kidding me? It's no wonder we lost 5-1 on Saturday, with Wilyer Abreu even smashing a two-run homer against us. This isn't just a fluke, either. Our Mariners are now 10-13 in games started by lefties. That's a trend that's gotta stop, like, yesterday. And get this: out of the five right-handed hitters we put in the lineup on Saturday, only Julio Rodriguez has a batting average better than a measly .189. ONLY JULIO! Manager Dan Wilson said they'll "look at it again and put the lineup together and make adjustments where we think we have to," adding, "It's just something that we're gonna have to make the adjustment to and get after it Sunday, and we'll do that." Well, skipper, let's see those adjustments because what

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we've been seeing isn't cutting it.

Logan Gilbert Has To Step Up Today

So, for Father's Day, we're handing the ball to Logan Gilbert, our right-hander who's sitting at a 5-4 record with a 3.43 ERA. He's coming off a strong outing on Tuesday, a 3-1 victory against Baltimore where he gave up just one run on two hits over seven innings and struck out a season-high 10 batters. That's the Logan we know and love, right? But here's the catch: his career numbers against Boston are NOT pretty. He's 0-2 with a 4.81 ERA in six career starts against them. He's gotta overcome that history today if we want to avoid the sweep. He's facing Boston's 23-year-old lefty, Payton Tolle (3-4, 2.93 ERA), who's in his first full major league season and making his first career start against us. Tolle has lost his past two starts, most recently giving up three runs on four hits in five innings in a 6-1 defeat to Toronto on Tuesday. Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy sounds confident in his guys, saying, "Pretty much anybody that takes the ball, I feel pretty good about walking in the dugout and feeling like we're going to be in the game." He thinks their starters keep them in it, and he's not wrong about that this series. This is it, 12s. We NEED this game. Logan Gilbert has to shut them down and our bats, especially those righties, have to wake up. We cannot let a team that's at the bottom of the AL East come into T-Mobile Park and sweep us on Father's Day. Our Mariners are still leading the AL West, and we need to play like it. Let's see that fight. Let's send Boston packing with at least one loss. Get loud, Seattle!

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