The Texas Rangers and Seattle Mariners are playing at Globe Life Park in Arlington on Thursday in the series finale of their AL West matchup and the game at 2:05 pm ET comes after the M's blew a fantastic start by Felix Hernandez against Yu Darvish and gave the win to Tex and now they will try to rebound after that devastating blow and the game will be streaming online from the MLB.com website.
The Mariners bats fell silent late in the game and the bullpen and Brad Miller blew a sure win for Hernandez, who allowed just one run and that wasn't until after he left the game and now he remains 3-0 on the season, as closer Fernando Rodney was tabbed for the loss. The Mariners are coming into the season with very high expectations after signing Robinson Cano and now they are trying to get back on track after starting the season 3-0 and Cano still has yet to hit his first home run.
The offense has gone quiet apart from Cano and Dustin Ackley, but the pitching has been stellar and making that even more impressive is the fact that the team is down three starters with Hisashi Iwakuma, James Paxton and Taijuan Walker on the mend and they are hoping to have those players back soon. Hernandez has started the season with some filthy stuff and he will be in the Cy Young race this year with the way he has started and now the team will put Erasmo Ramirez on the mound and that comes before Chris Young pitches against the Miami Marlins on Friday night for the first interleague series of the season.
The team is currently ranked 21st in runs and 27th in batting average this season and they are 28th in on base and 22nd in slugging percentage. The pitching has been stellar so far and Hernandez has been a main reason for that, while Roenis Elias has also been very good in his first season in the big leagues. The team is ranked first in BAA this season and fourth in ERA and they are also third in overall WHIP and 11th in quality starts.
Texas comes into the game at second in the division and now they have four wins this season in the final frame after they stole one away from the Mariners on Wednesday. The team is starting a series at home with the White Sox next and they are ranked 22nd in the league in runs and 10th in batting average and the pitching is 16th in ERA and 21st in quality starts.
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