{"id":335377,"date":"2026-07-10T05:45:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335377\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T05:45:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:45:12","slug":"mariners-pay-for-their-mistakes-get-swept-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/335377\/","title":{"rendered":"Mariners pay for their mistakes, get swept in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"

At one point Thursday, the Mariners theoretically had a chance to come away with a game from their three-game set against the Marlins. As it turns out, that chance was short-lived. The Mariners were swept away, losing the third and final contest in Miami 8-4.<\/p>\n

The game came unraveled in the bottom of the fourth. After the M\u2019s didn\u2019t fully capitalize on some opportunities in the first couple of innings and fell behind a run, Bryce Miller walked his fourth hitter of the evening and allowed a single off the end of the bat by Leo Jim\u00e9nez to put two runners on with one out. He was able to induce a ground ball from Liam Hicks for a chance at a double play, but Colt Emerson\u2019s throw to first was in the dirt, allowing Jakob Marsee to score from second on the play. To make matters even worse, Emerson pulled his foot from second base early while attempting to turn it, and the Mariners ended up getting no outs from the play following a Marlins challenge.<\/p>\n

The Marlins had no mercy and laid down the consequences. A triple down the left field line off of J.P. Crawford\u2019s glove by Otto Lopez and a Kyle Stowers single to right brought in three more runs, ballooning the Marlins\u2019 lead to 6-1 in the blink of an eye. Just like that, the game felt decided.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, things didn\u2019t get off to a horrible start for the Mariners. Thanks to a pair of walks from Marlins righty Janson Junk to begin the game, both Crawford and Randy Arozarena were on base with nobody out in the top of the first. It felt like a golden opportunity to move on from Wednesday\u2019s shutout and put up a crooked number early. Alas, the opportunity in the first wouldn\u2019t come to fruition. Dominic Canzone grounded into an easy 6-3 double play, and even with a runner still on third with two outs, Cal Raleigh struck out to end the early threat.<\/p>\n

Miller ran into some trouble in the bottom half of the first. He issued a one-out walk to Lopez, which at the time was his first allowed in four starts. The next hitter, Xavier Edwards, weakly chopped a grounder to the right side in front of the plate, which Miller was able to field but unable to properly deliver to first, pulling Josh Naylor off the bag to put two runners on. Despite a tough sequence, Miller was able to work back-to-back flyouts to get out of the jam.<\/p>\n

All in all, it wasn\u2019t the best day from Miller. He\u2019d strike out only three hitters over five innings, allowing nine hits for six runs (four earned) while walking four. His velocity was down across the board.<\/p>\n

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The top of the second was when Naylor would briefly take over this game \u2014 he\u2019d deposit a bloop single right between third and short for one of the cheapest hits you\u2019ll ever see.<\/p>\n

After Luke Raley struck out for the first out of the inning, Naylor stole second without a throw. Junk couldn\u2019t throw another pitch before Naylor took off again with his sights set on third base. This time, Junk stepped off and Naylor looked doomed to run into an out on the basepaths \u2014 instead, the throw to third was airmailed into foul territory on the left field side, allowing Naylor to trot home and give the Mariners a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Cole Young drew a walk and advanced to third on yet another throwing error by Junk on a pickoff attempt to first. After V\u00edctor Robles struck out, Emerson also drew a walk and stole second to give the Mariners a chance with two runners in scoring position and two out. As I alluded to earlier though, they didn\u2019t cash in \u2014 Crawford grounded out to end the inning on a ball that deflected off of Junk and over to the second baseman Edwards.<\/p>\n

While the bulk of the damage came later, the Marlins did make the Mariners pay in the immediate aftermath of their missed opportunity in the second. Griffin Conine turned on Miller\u2019s first pitch of the bottom half, a 95 mph four-seamer, for a solo homer that evened the score. Later in the inning, Hicks would deliver a double down the right field line to score a runner from first and give the Marlins the lead they would never relinquish.<\/p>\n

The Mariners offense briefly showed some glimmers of life later on, even with the game appearing pretty much out of reach. Arozarena and Canzone both hit homers, with Dom\u2019s being of the two-run variety.<\/p>\n

With Thursday\u2019s loss, the Mariners fall back to .500. It\u2019s the 11th time this season the Mariners have been equal in wins and losses, excluding Opening Day. They are now in danger of heading into the All-Star break with a losing record; that\u2019ll be the case unless they can earn a series win against the American League-leading Tampa Bay Rays this weekend at Tropicana Field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At one point Thursday, the Mariners theoretically had a chance to come away with a game from their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":335378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,138141,137279],"class_list":["post-335377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-seattle-mariners-game-recaps","tag-seattle-mariners-scores-standings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}