Mariners 6 | Royals 7 (in 13)

ON THE MOUND
Oh no, Joe your nemesis (the “big” inning) reared it’s ugly head again . . .
this time in the 5th when the Royals scored THREE to get to within ONE and then he was gone . . .
4.2 innings ~ ELEVEN hits ~ THREE earned runs ~ ONE walk ~ THREE strikeouts

} Brandon wasn’t much help – giving up THREE runs of his own in his 1.1 inning of work
} Charlie and Luke were impressive through their FOUR innings, recording a combination of TWO hits, ONE run and FIVE strikeouts (with Tom in their for 1/3 – giving up a hit and recording an out)
} Chance look great for a time – retiring the first FIVE batters he faced (including TWO strikeouts). It was that FOURTH pitch to the FIRST batter of the THIRTEENTH inning that hurt 😦

AT THE PLATE

ELEVEN hits and SIX runs is good, right? Yep, ‘cept when the other team gets NINETEEN hits and SEVEN runs 😦

extra-base hits galore . . .
~ Homers by Justin and Raul and
~ Doubles by Abraham, Dustin, Michael and Kyle

Sure started out great . . .
with THREE in the 1st and adding on in the 3rd and 4th and then tying it (via Raul’s homer) in the 9th to send it to extras – where they had their chances, just couldn’t get it done.

IN THE FIELD 
THREE double-plays turned and NONE turned against them

tweets of the game . . .