What Went Wrong For the Mariners in ALCS Game 7 w/Jon Morosi | Seattle Sports

Good evening from Roger Center in Toronto. Jubilation for the home team and obviously heartbreak for the Seattle Mariners who lost a very winnable game in game seven of the American League Championship Series. This series will be known for many things. The back and forth, the number of times, the first four games of course of this series, all won by road teams, but this game seven was in the Mariners grasp. Nine outs to go. And when we look back on this one, we’ll probably think about two decisions. Removing George Kirby after four innings and then extending Brian Woo beyond two innings. The thought I had was after Woo completed the sixth that we might see the bullpen get involved to begin the seventh. Perhaps two innings being the limit of Woo. But you understand why Dan Wilson stuck with Woo. He had been their best pitcher for most of the season. But it seemed as though with his current range right now, perhaps Woo was a bit overextended, the command wasn’t quite there. Whereas with Kirby, his fastball command, I thought, was much improved from where it had been earlier on in this series. Perhaps if they had gone with one extra inning from Kirby, then you could have gotten the two innings from Woo. that would have brought you through the seventh and then on you would have been able to potentially go right to Munoz and skip over Bazardo who of course gave up the home run to George Springer. Not a great pitch from Bazardo. Inner half of the plate 96 mph and obviously Springer whose health had been a major question after he was hit by the pitch in Seattle in game five was able to have in many ways the swing of his life. A former World Series MVP now in the World Series for a third time. Max Scherzer in the World Series for a fourth time with the Toronto Blue Jays and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. a very deserving MVP choice of the American League Championship Series. You think about his family story. Born in Canada 26 years ago, his father, Vladimir Guerrero senior, was in the World Series 15 years ago. The one thing the Guerrero family has not yet done is win a World Series. They’ll have that chance now coming up. I thought overall a valiant effort by the Mariner bats. For the first six innings, you would have thought that it was a textbook game that would have led to the Mariners winning. I thought their at bats were good. They worked deeper counts. They actually had some innings where they strung multiple hits together. Yes, they had some home runs that were part of the story, but I thought overall they worked better at bats than they had in many other games of this series. But in the end, a very unfulfilling start to this off season for the Seattle Mariners. They were oh so close and instead the wait for the first World Series game in franchise history extends for at least one more year.

MLB Network’s Jon Morosi breaks down the #Mariners 4-3 loss in game 7 of the ALCS

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  4. The Mariners lived by the homer but died by the strike out. You have to know when to put the ball into play. And why Rivas and Robles were in the game is beyond me. They are barely triple A players. Pulling Kirby who was cruising, and then pulling Woo set the M's up for a crushing defeat.

  6. What went wrong? Well, I imagine sitting on a 2-run lead and gift wrapping 2 base runners by walking them in front of the Teeth of the Toronto Order when we had only 6 outs to course correct should it all go wrong seems to be a place to start.

  9. We Jays fans breathed a huge sigh of relief when Rodriguez went after what was probably ball four. It spared us from having to watch Raleigh come to the plate with a chance to tie it. Thanks for a great show by both teams.

  10. Seattle never really looked like winning after getting smoked in Game 3. That cost them all their intimidation status earned by winning the first two so comfortably on the road. But the Jays have a weird intangible chemistry going on that will make them a bigger challenge for the Dodgers than most expect. The Jays are like cockroaches — very hard to eliminate.

  15. The Mariners bottom of the order hitters were awful. So many times where they needed to get on to get Julio or Raleigh up with a chance to do some damage. They also left a lot of runners on base the past few games. Hitting into a bases loaded double play is a killer

  17. You can make up all the excuses in the book who’s doing this interview but one thing stands out out I believe in karma you don’t boot somebody because they were on a different team now he’s on the Jays team and when he went down with a or knee, you shouldn’t boot him or cheered, but he got your back when it mattered the most and it’s called karma

  18. Springer's response to the CLASSLESS ACT by Seattle fans, when he was injured. "PRICELESS" and a trip to the "WORLD SERIES". GO JAYS GO !!!! 🍁⚾🍁

  26. What do you think about karma? Springer got booed and cheered for limping off the field at T-Mobile and threw out the dinger to take the Jays to WS. The Baseball Gods have spoken.

  29. It was a baseball first for me i have never seen a player jump in the air to break up a double play and do a half turn that was impressive and cheating that play set the stage for a karma moment the Mariners did not deserve to win and karma proved that

  30. Hind sight is 20/20 one hit either way and the pundits would have been talking about the genus moves by the Mariners pitching staff, truly not much to be learned in a series with two equally talented and managed teams if they played ten series it would likely be five and five. Nothing but respect for both teams.

  34. They were shanked. Watch the Springer dinger. First the new pitcher throws the ball at his knees. Then the catcher signals for the heart of the plate. Then shows the location to the runners on 2nd and third, twice. The rest is history. Say it aint so Joe, say it aint so.

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