11:26pm: Gilbert told reporters (including Adam Jude of The Seattle Times) that he expects to go for an MRI tomorrow.<\/p>\n
9:59pm: The Mariners announced that\u00a0Logan Gilbert<\/a> exited tonight\u2019s start against the Marlins with forearm tightness. Gilbert had fired three perfect innings with a trio of strikeouts. He was lifted for\u00a0Casey Lawrence<\/a> to begin the fourth.<\/p>\n Gilbert\u2019s fastball was in the 94-95 MPH range throughout the night. His final heater checked in at 95.4 MPH, right in line with his 95.6 MPH season average. The stuff still seemed sharp, but the M\u2019s are obviously going to be extremely cautious with any kind of forearm discomfort. Gilbert entered play tonight with a 2.63 earned run average and 41 strikeouts through his first 27 1\/3 innings. It was an even more impressive start than last year, when he landed sixth in AL Cy Young balloting after posting a 3.23 ERA over an MLB-high 208 2\/3 frames.<\/p>\n Skipper Dan Wilson will presumably provide more information postgame. It\u2019s impossible to know the severity this soon, but it\u2019s a concerning development anytime a top pitcher experiences forearm discomfort. It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise if the Mariners send Gilbert for imaging over the weekend.<\/p>\n Seattle opened the season without star righty\u00a0George Kirby<\/a>, who battled shoulder inflammation early in Spring Training. Kirby progressed to throwing a bullpen session before tonight\u2019s game, his first mound work after a six-week shutdown (link via Daniel Kramer of MLB.com<\/a>). He\u2019s expected to throw live batting practice next week. Kirby appears to be progressing nicely, but he\u2019s certainly still weeks away from a return to major league action.<\/p>\n Luis Castillo<\/a>,\u00a0Bryan Woo<\/a> and\u00a0Bryce Miller<\/a> have filled their customary mid-rotation spots behind Gilbert. The final rotation spot has been a struggle in Kirby\u2019s absence.\u00a0Luis F. Castillo<\/a> allowed seven runs in as many innings over two starts.\u00a0Emerson Hancock<\/a> has given up 10 runs across 11 2\/3 frames in three outings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"11:26pm: Gilbert told reporters (including Adam Jude of The Seattle Times) that he expects to go for an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,465,466,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-george-kirby","10":"tag-logan-gilbert","11":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}