The Seattle Mariners Mitch Hanieger is all smiles in the M’s dugout after his seventh inning home run at T Mobile Field in Seattle on Tue Sep 28, 2021 (AP News photo)

Oakland Continues to Struggle in Seattle

By Barbara Mason

Tuesday evening the Oakland A’s were back at work trying to figure out the Seattle Mariners. Last night they were walloped by the Mariners 13-4 after taking a 3-0 lead early in the game. They just could not hold on to that lead. The Mariners came on strong in the third inning and did not look back. The Mariners take game two of this three game series 4-2.

Neither team had much going on in the first three innings. Chris Bassitt was on the mound for Oakland and pitched into the fourth inning before being relieved by Petit. He had allowed 3 hits and 1 walk.

Oakland’s Chad Pinder hit a home run in the fourth inning giving the A’s a brief lead in this game.

Petit allowed a single, a double and two runs giving the Mariners a 2-1 lead in the fourth. Sergio Romo would relieve Petit in the fifth with a three up, three down inning. In the sixth inning Romo allowed 3 hits and one run. That would be all for Romo and Diekman came in to relieve.

The A’s would score in the seventh inning when Tony Kemp singled driving Mark Canha home. The A’s had pulled to within one run 3-2 and needed to keep the Mariners off the scoreboard. Seattle had different plans. Once again Mitch Hanigar knocked the ball out of the park as he had done twice last night. Seattle now led by the score of 4-2 with time running out for the A’s.

The ninth inning was a tough one for Oakland. Matt Chapman had a single but Brown and Murphy both struck out. Tony Kemp flied out and that was the ball game. Seattle had won eleven games in a row against the A’s.

All of the runs in this game came at the hands of the Oakland relief pitching so another struggle for the A’s on the mound.

The final game of this series will be Wednesday night with first pitch at 7:10.