SEATTLE — The Seattle Mariners fell prey to respective first inning showcases from the Detroit Tigers lineup the last two games. The Mariners avoided another similar situation and rode a quality start from Luis Castillo to a 3-2 win against the Tigers on Wednesday. Seattle avoided a sweep and closed out the first homestead of the season 3-4 with the win.
“Excellent ballgame today,” Mariners manager Dan Wilson said in a postgame interview. “Got to hand it to (Castillo), just a really gutty performance today when we really needed it. Seven (innings) strong, just really handled that lineup very well from the first pitch all the way through. Just an outstanding effort. Gave us what we needed.”
Detroit scored eight combined runs in the first innings the first two games of the series. It had a chance to add another to that total Wednesday after Riley Greene, who had two home runs Game 1 and 2 against Seattle, hit a one-out double. He was left stranded.
Victor Robles, who had the only hit for the Mariners on Tuesday, brought home Dylan Moore and J.P. Crawford with a two-RBI double for a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the second.
Seattle will have an off day Thursday before playing its first road series of the year against the San Francisco Giants on Friday at Oracle Park. First pitch is set for 1:35 p.m. PT.
Bryce Miller will start for the Mariners and Justin Verlander will start for the Giants.