> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Bats Take Nine-Inning Nap as Giants Pummel Mariners 7-0 - URL: https://www.emeraldcityspectrum.com/seattle-mariners-bats-nine-inning-nap-san-francisco-giants/ - Published: 2026-07-18T08:32:12.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-08T06:10:57.000Z - Author: Callaghan Bluechel - Tags: News, Analysis, Mariners, Cal Raleigh, Dan Wilson, J.P. Crawford, Luke Raley, Cole Young, Colt Emerson, Bryce Miller, Jose A. Ferrer, Nick Davila, Victor Robles \[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="5641"\] ![ Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29), left, pitching coach Pete Woodworth, center, and starting pitcher Bryce Miller (50) meet at the mound during the sixth inning against San Francisco at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images ](https://storage.ghost.io/c/1d/f2/1df2f77b-83dd-4bc0-a6d2-6d1bb5df89a3/content/images/2026/10/mariners-giants-loss-format-original.jpg) Seattle Mariners catcher Cal Raleigh (29), left, pitching coach Pete Woodworth, center, and starting pitcher Bryce Miller (50) meet at the mound during the sixth inning against San Francisco at T-Mobile Park. Mandatory Credit: Stephen Brashear-Imagn Images \[/caption\] A little over a year before Friday night, Julio Rodríguez announced that he would not participate in an All-Star Game he had been selected for, noting he would rather focus on improving his own game to a better standard. Rodríguez wasn’t on the field on Friday, recovering from a concussion sustained earlier that month when a Nolan Schanuel throw bounced off the back of his head. Concussions are a case of needing however much time he needs in order to recover from the knock. But it means he can’t lead by example as he did after the Mariners’ horrific loss in the Bronx last year. And it seems no other hitter is willing to put himself forward in such a way. The starting pitchers have borne the brunt of the blame when they’ve let the team down, especially Bryan Woo. But aside from some strong words from Cal Raleigh after a pungent loss in Cleveland - words that seemingly only went heeded for a six-game stretch - it has been crickets from the team leaders and an utter lack of urgency from the manager. “It’s the first one back, and I think guys got back in the groove today and looking for us to come out tomorrow and have different results,” said M’s skipper Dan Wilson, “Obviously, you want to get off on the second half with a win, but just weren’t able to get anything going offensively and tomorrow we get a chance to turn that around.” Those may have been Wilson’s strongest words after his team lost 7-0 to a shambolic San Francisco Giants squad that entered the game 41-55, second only to the Colorado Rockies in NL West helplessness. Sure, one of their few bright spots, a 21-year-old masher named Bryce Eldrige, did some of the damage. But the M’s made visiting starter Landen Roupp, a C-list pitcher on a good day, look like a veritable barnburner. It can’t go on like this - well, in the immortal words of Mick McCarthy, *it can* \- but the M’s won’t be a playoff team or even a .500 team if it does. ### Seattle got shut out by the Giants, failing to get a single runner into scoring position. There was a grand total of one batted ball all game that could be called a great piece of Mariners contact. With two outs and a 3-1 count in the bottom of the second, Roupp left a sinker right over the heart of the dish and Luke Raley mashed a 105.8-mile an hour fly ball at a 35 degree launch angle. He happened to hit the 400-foot shot to dead center, so it became a flyout at the wall, but it was a good piece of hitting. A J.P. Crawford groundout was the only other Mariners fair ball that left the bat at 100 miles an hour or more. The teamhad seven hard-hit balls out of 24 total batted balls for a hard-hit rate of 29.2% … but even that is perhaps a little misleading, as four of those hard-hit balls were between 95 and 96 miles an hour off the bat - barely above the 95 mile an hour cutoff. “Tonight, \[we\] just weren’t able to get many balls squared up,” Wilson said. “Just not anything that we could square up well and put hits back together, at bats back together, and \[Landen Roupp\] just kept us off-stride all night long.” Sure, Roupp did manage to find plenty of changeups and curveballs at the bottom of the zone, but there were plenty of grooveballs regardless that the M’s could have taken advantage of. The real issue is that, through their complete lack of fight, presence, or intimidation, allowed Roupp to get in such a groove and pummel that part of the zone with ease. The M’s didn’t adjust once it became clear Roupp was sitting in that part of the zone, either, and that made Roupp’s pitches so much more effective. Hitting may be inherently reactive, but the hitters have agency here. Wilson pointed to the pitch types Roupp was hurling as a reason why the team struggled, with changes and curves aplenty. “There was more off-speed tonight. The changeup, the curveball was working for him tonight and we just weren’t able to get anything square,” the manager said. “Again, we make our adjustments and we’ve gotta get ready tomorrow.” Worth noting is the fact that the M’s are fairly decent and middle-of-the-pack among their MLB peers when it comes to hitting non-fastballs; it’s actually the heaters where the M’s are near the bottom of the pile. It’s scarcely pertinent to go over each at-bat; after all, they didn’t get a runner past first. The closest they got to getting a runner in scoring position was when Victor Robles attempted to bunt Luke Raley over to second with nobody out in the sixth. The bunt itself went right to Roupp on the mound, allowing the Giants to get the lead runner, and Robles rapidly got thrown out trying to steal second. Roupp pitched seven scoreless innings in total, tossing a shutout in seven for the first time in his three-year career before being relieved by Jason Foley. By the time Foley was in the game, the M’s were well and truly stuck in the proverbial van down by the river ### Cal Raleigh may have been almost a non-factor at the plate, but he was still one of the better hitters the M’s had on Friday. Before the Giants’ septet of runs can be discussed, however, it’s worth noting the continued absence of real production from the captain. The Mariners catcher got on base once with a walk. That made him one of five batters to touch first base. No one, it must be noted, did so more than once. The time for Cal Raleigh’s struggles to be excusable has long since passed. The immediate post-injury period is over, the first half is over, and he has now had a four-day break to get back in the zone. The question for Raleigh is now whether he can finish the year with a decent performance or a bad one. With a .169/.271/.310 slash line, nine homers, seven doubles, and 0.9 FanGraphs WAR, Raleigh has been a far cry from the untarnished hero he was in 2025\. The months-long slump has clearly affected him mentally, as he is making much worse swing decisions and trying far too hard to take things out of the yard. And yet this is juxtaposed to an inability to make meaningful contact on meatballs down the middle of the zone. Raleigh’s walk came as Roupp was clearly losing the zone in the seventh inning. Otherwise, he made poor swing decisions in some at-bats while missing offerings in his traditional wheelhouse against Caleb Kilian in the bottom of the ninth. In a fashion that has become depressingly typical this year, he finished the game with a pop-up a mile high as he overcooked his swing. ### Bryce Miller worked into the sixth inning, though San Francisco hitters were on top of the splitter. This was one of those starts that reminds us Bryce Miller is human. Not because the Giants had some sort of field day against him - Willy Adames’ nail in the coffin was against Nick Davila - but the Giants had a beat on a pitch that usually works wonders for him. Up until the sixth, Miller’s splitter got zero whiffs and landed for a called strike zero times. Before then, the Giants just seemed to see it perfectly out of the hand. Perhaps they were sitting on it, as they missed 10 out of their 27 swings against the four-seamer and 18 of Miller’s 51 four-seam fastballs were called strikes or whiffs. This was more pronounced until the sixth, when the Giants’ focus seemed to switch from fastball to splitter. Regardless, Miller was the best performer the Mariners had all game. With the aforementioned effective heater in tow, he worked a clean first, a fairly clean second and fourth, and stranded one-out runners on the corners in the third. “I thought Bryce gave us a chance tonight, I thought he threw the ball extremely well. You know, it’s what we’ve seen from Bryce,” Wilson said. “Really the two run homer there, and gave up some singles, but outside of that, Bryce really, I thought, kept them off-stride pretty well. Scattered some hits, but kept us in the game late.” With a man on first in the top of the fifth, however, Eldridge sat on an 0-1 splitter and found one in the zone that he knocked out to center field, a few feet beyond where Luke Raley’s flyout had gone. Had Robles timed his jump more effectively, it could have been a robbed dinger and a shot in the arm for Seattle, but he wasn’t able to track it fully and it became a 2-0 lead for the Giants. Were it not for an error by rookie shortstop Colt Emerson, Miller would have worked through the sixth without issue. But as he burnt his throw to Josh Naylor on what would have been a double play ball, Jung Hoo Lee got to second with one out instead of trotting back to the dugout. Miller fanned Adames, but a badly released fastball struck Drew Gilbert, and with 91 pitches in tow, Wilson brought him out of the game. ### Jose A. Ferrer struggled and Cole Young made a rare fielding error, but it was Nick Davila who yielded a game-calling grand slam. Southpaw Jose A. Ferrer entered the game to face Drew Cavanaugh, the left-handed nine-hole Giant, but early jitters led to a five-pitch walk and packed sacks for the Giants. When he fell behind Luis Arraez 3-0, it seemed like San Francisco’s third run might become a gift. That was true, but it wasn’t a free pass from Ferrer. The Mariners reliever worked back into the count and induced a soft, routine grounder to second off Arraez’ bat. Arraez is not a very fast runner (to put it diplomatically), so all Young had to do was field the ball cleanly and toss to first to end the inning. It went off his glove instead. Everyone was safe, everyone moved up a station. Paired with Emerson’s earlier error, what could have become a quality start for Bryce Miller instead became a 5 ⅔-inning, three-run (though that last one was unearned) performance. Either would have been losses thanks to the continued lethargy of the Mariners bats, but every run counts when you don’t know the outcome of the following innings. Wilson put something adjacent to zero stock in these errors as indicative of something greater. “With the runner coming at him, it was kind of a strange turn there for Colt. And then Cole, it looked like there was a little bit of runner distraction there, so just kind of an odd play \[for\] both of ‘em,” Wilson said. “No error’s a good error, and it came at a tough time, but I’m sure we learn from that and we keep going.” Here he is probably correct. If these miscues do say anything, it is probably about how even the youngest, truest believers in the team are growing shakier; Emerson has been a solid defender and Young has been an excellent one. As to whether that attitude is properly applicable to the rest of the squad’s issues - bad defense has been much more common among the rest of the field, and the batting woes have been team-wide - that appears on shaky and continually-breaking ground. But the errors themselves, given their rarity for these two players, likely don’t say much. What maybe says more is that Wilson, with four days’ rest for all of his guys and only losing by three (one swing of the bat with enough men on base, a skill that is supposed to be this team’s strong suit) went to lower-leverage arm Nick Davila. Now, he has performed better than some, with a 3.54 ERA going into the game, but a stark dearth of swing-and-miss and a 4.62 FIP, perhaps there was some indication that he was overperforming. San Francisco snuck a couple of grounders through in the first three batters, and once Davila airmailed one and hit Lee, Adames had a golden opportunity. A ground ball - and Davila produces a lot of them - could still mean zero runs for the frame, but the hurler left a slider right down the middle. It wasn’t the Mariners who brought out the rye bread and mustard. The final score of 7-0 was reached with Adames’ 16th home run of the season. ### On Deck The only good thing that happened for the Mariners on Friday - at least in the near-to-medium term, as Lazaro Montes’ cyclopean moonshot in his first home Triple-A game was a hopeful sign for years to come - was that the Texas Rangers lost. That meant that the M’s didn’t lose any ground in the AL West race, as they are still one and a half games back of the lead (even with a middling-at-best 48-50 record). Boston and Minnesota each won, however (the Red Sox twice in both games of a doubleheader), so the loss marked the Mariners losing even a tie for the third wild card spot. For the first time all season, Seattle’s lack of effort is rapidly costing them their chance at the postseason. It really can’t go on like this.