Post-Game Notes

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SEATTLE MARINERS 4 (69-89), KANSAS CITY ROYALS 0 (83-74)

Tuesday, September 24, 2013 Safeco Field
FINAL 1 0 Kansas City Royals 1 Seattle Mariners First Pitch: 7:11 pm 2 0 0 3 4 0 0 0 0 Time of Game: 5 0 3 2:27 6 0 0 7 8 9 0 0 0 0 0 X Temp: 58/ E @ 1 MPH R 0 4 H E LOB 5 2 4 9 0 8 Attendance: 12,528

WP: James Paxton (3-0, 1.50) LP: Bruce Chen (8-4, 3.31) SV: None
HOME RUNS: Justin Smoak (SEA) PITCHING LINES: KANSAS CITY Bruce Chen (L) Chris Dwyer Kelvin Herrera SEATTLE James Paxton (W) Yoervis Medina Danny Farquhar NO. 19 PITCHER Bruce Chen INN. 5 MOB 2 OUT 2 COUNT 0-2 DISTANCE/FIELD 389/LF

IP 5.0 2.0 1.0 IP 7.0 1.0 1.0

H 7 2 0 H 4 0 1

R 4 0 0 R 0 0 0

ER 4 0 0 ER 0 0 0

BB-I 3-0 1-0 0-0 BB-I 0-0 0-0 0-0

SO 5 2 2 SO 10 1 0

HR 1 0 0 HR 0 0 0

WP 0 0 0 WP 0 0 0

HB 0 0 0 HB 0 0 0

BK 0 0 0 BK 0 0 0

PITCHES/STRIKES 97/61 34/19 12/7 PITCHES/STRIKES 97/65 16/10 20/10

ROYALS NOTES: Bruce Chen recorded his 4th loss, allowing 4 earned runs on 7 hits, with 5 strikeouts and 3 walks in 5.0 innings. o Recorded his 3rd consecutive start in which he failed to make it past the 5th inning. o Is 1-3 with a 4.46 ERA (19 ER/ 38.1 IP) with 29 strikeouts and 10 walks in 7 starts on the road this season. Eric Hosmer (2x4) extended his hitting streak to 8 games, since 9/16, batting .314 (11x35), with 5 runs scored, 3 doubles, 1 home run, 3 RBI, and 2 walks during that span. Alex Gordon (1x4) has hit safely in 16 consecutive road games, since 8/17, batting .310 (22x71), with 15 runs scored, 3 doubles, 4 home runs, 11 RBI, and 4 walks. Chris Dwyer made his ML debut in relief, holding the Mariners scoreless for 2.0 innings on 2 hits with 2 strikeouts. The Royals were shutout for the first time since August 20 vs. Chicago (AL). MARINERS NOTES: James Paxton recorded his 3rd win of the season, holding the Royals scoreless for 7.0 innings on 4 hits with a career-high 10 strikeouts and 0 walks. o Became the first Mariners rookie starter to record 10+ strikeouts since Hisashi Iwakuma set a rookie club record with 13 strikeouts on July 30, 2012 vs. Toronto. o Became the 4th Mariners starting pitcher in franchise history to record 10+ strikeouts in one of his first 4 starts (others: Byron McLaughlin, 10, 4/25/78; Erik Hanson, 11, 9/16/88; Felix Hernandez, 11, 8/15/05). o Became the 10th Mariners pitcher in franchise history to record 10+ strikeouts in a start in their rookie season (done 19 times). o Became the first Mariners starter to begin a career 3-0 since Freddy Garcia in 1999. o Recorded a career-high 10 strikeouts (previous high: 5, 9/14 at STL). o Lowered his season ERA to 1.50 in his 4th MLB start (4 ER, 24.0 IP, 21 K, 7.88 K/9.0 IP). o Retired 12 consecutive batters from the 3rd out of the 2nd inning through the 2nd out of the 6th inning. o Joins Taijuan Walker (8, 9/9 vs. HOU) as Mariners rookies with 8+ strikeouts in a game this season. o Paxton is just the 3rd starting pitcher this season to strikeout 10 Royals in a game: Max Scherzer (12, 9/15) & Ubaldo Jimenez (10, 9/9). The Mariners recorded their 13th team shutout of the season (last: 9/19 at DET), and first at home since August 11 vs. Milwaukeethe 13 team shutouts ties for the 3rd-most in franchise history (2003: 15, 2001: 14, 1991: 13). The Mariners shut out the Royals for the 23rd time in franchise history (last: 7/4/07 @ KC, first in Seattle since 6/2/06). The Mariners are 27-18 when scoring in the first inning and 49-33 when scoring before their opponent. Nick Franklin (1x4) extended his hitting streak to a career-high 8 games, since 9/17, (previous high: 7 G, 6/1118)is batting .367 (11x30), with 3 runs scored, 2 doubles, 2 RBI, and 4 walks during the streak. Justin Smoak (1x3, R, HR, 3 RBI, BB) hit his 19th home run of the season, which ties his career high (also: 2012)it was just his 2nd home run of the season batting right-handed (hit 7 HR as a RHB in 2012)it was his 2nd 3-run HR of the season (also: 7/13 vs. LAA). NEXT GAME Kansas City Royals vs. Seattle Mariners Wednesday, September 25, 2013 at 7:10 pm PT (ROOT Sports) RHP Ervin Santana (9-9, 3.16) vs. RHP Hisashi Iwakuma (13-6, 2.76)

Kendrys Morales (3x4, R, 2B, 3 RBI) recorded his 45th multi-hit game of the season14h game with 3+ hits 56th extra-base hitleads the team in all three categories. Abraham Almonte (1x4) has reached base safely in all 18 games with a plate appearance to begin his ML careerhas hit safely in 16 of his 18 games with an official at-bat (walks in the other 2 games). Michael Saunders (1x4) has hit safely in 7 of his last 8 games, since 9/17, batting .370 (10x27), with 5 runs scored, 5 doubles, 1 triple, 1 home run, 5 RBI, and 5 walks during that span. Mike Zunino (1x4, SB) recorded his first career stolen base, swiping 3rd base in the 6th inning.

Post-Game Quotes
ROYALS MANAGER NED YOST: Paxton looked pretty good Yeah, he looked real good. Big, tall kid, straight over the top, straight down hill action on all his pitches. Good fastball, I mean, over-powering fastball at times, got it up to 97, lot of life on it. But down hill pitches are tough to hit, especially fastballs. Good breaking stuff, good changeup, good curveball. Bruce [Chen] danced around some trouble early, but that pitch to Smoak Yeah, he tried 0-2, he tried to get it up and get him to chase a high fastball and he just didnt get it up enough. He just got it up enough to hit it out of the park.