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Friday, March 26, 2021 Game #26 (10-10-5) Peoria Stadium SEATTLE MARINERS (10-10-5) at SAN DIEGO PADRES (10-12-2) Road #13 (4-5-3) TODAY’S GAME INFORMATION Starting Pitchers: LH Marco Gonzales (1-0, 4.22) vs. LH Ryan Weathers (1-0, 6.30) 6:40 pm AZ/PT • Radio: 710 ESPN Seattle • TV: None TONIGHT’S TILT…the Mariners and Padres meet Friday night at Peoria Stadium, with SPRING RECORD Seattle acting as the road team after hosting the Padres in the matchup back on Feb. 28 Overall Record ...........................10-10-5 to open camp...left-hander Marco Gonzales is set to make his final spring start before PEORIA STADIUM .........................6-5-2 scheduled to take the mound in the Mariners regular season opener on April 1 vs. San Home Record ................................6-5-2 Road Record .................................4-5-3 Francisco at T-Mobile Park...despite losing 2 straight, the Mariners have won 3 of their last Current Streak ....................................L2 5 and 5 of their last 8 games. UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS (subject to change)… THE COUNTDOWN TODAY: Mariners at Padres 6:40 pm 710 ESPN Seattle 6 days to Opening Night, 4/1 vs. SF SEA — Gonzales*, Graveman, Montero, Swanson UPCOMING SCHEDULE SD — Weathers*, Melancon, Pomeranz*, Pagán, Baez, Knehr, Camarena* March 27 ................vs. San Francisco SATURDAY: Mariners vs. Giants 6:40 pm 710 ESPN Seattle/ROOT March 28 ............................... OFF DAY March 29 .......................... at Cincinnati SEA — TBA Bold - Peoria Stadium SF — Kazmir*, Wood*, Yamaguchi, Gott, Marte, Pfeifer*, Santos, Gonzalez* SUNDAY: OFF DAY BY THE NUMBERS MONDAY: Mariners at Reds 12:05 pm 710 ESPN Seattle SEA — Flexen 40 CIN — TBA The Mariners Spring Training ros- * left-handed pitcher ter is now at 40 players after roster moves that involved 2 catchers. So SIX DAYS TO OPENING NIGHT...Seattle opens the 2021 regular season 6 days from far in camp, 27 players have been tonight at T-Mobile Park...the Mariners will take on the San Francisco Giants with a 7:10 re-assigned to minor league camp, pm PT first pitch...the limited inventory of 9,000 tickets available for the Opening Night 4 were optioned to the Mariners game is sold out...the Mariners have already sold out for all 3 games of their opening alternate site, one (1) optioned to AAA Tacoma, one (1) optioned to A series against San Francisco, as well as Monday, April 19 vs. the Los Angeles Dodgers... Everett, one (1) assigned to minor tickets are still available for select remaining games in the first two homestands, including league rehab and one (1) released. April 5-7 (CWS), April 16-18 (HOU) and April 20 (LAD). VS. SAN DIEGO...the Mariners and Padres, who share a spring home in the Peoria Sports 49 Complex and Peoria Stadium, have met 183 times in Spring Training action...the Mariners In addition to piling up the walks hold a 90-86-7 advantage in the all-time series...the teams last met on Feb. 28 this spring and stolen bases, Seattle hitters in each team’s first game of 2021...the Mariners won 5-4 on a walk-off single by Julio have been racking up the two- Rodríguez that scored Jarred Kelenic in the bottom of the 9th inning. baggers of late. The Mariners 49 doubles as a team this spring now ALT SITE...on Wednesday the Mariners announced that they will host their alternate rank 4th in the Majors as Spring training site at T-Mobile Park this year...according to MLB.com, they will be the only club Training winds down. Jack Rein- to use their home ballpark as their alternate site...in 2020, the team used AAA Tacoma’s heimer, Cal Raleigh and Jarred Kelenic all recorded RBI doubles Cheney Field as the team’s “alt” site. on Thursday, account for all 5 of WALKS LEADER...the Mariners drew 6 more walks in Thursday’s game, bringing their the Mariners runs in the ballgame. total to 115 walks this spring...Seattle not only leads all 30 Major League clubs in walks, but has walked 7 more times than next-closest Cincinnati (108 walks)...J.P. Crawford has 26 12 walks, 2 more than any other player in Cactus League action in 2021. The Mariners are in the midst of a STOLEN BASES LEADER...the Mariners also pace MLB with their 29 stolen bases as “marathon” of Cactus League a team this spring...Julio Rodríguez successfully stole his 3rd base of the spring in games, yesterday completing the 24th of 26 consecutive days with yesterday’s game at Oakland...the Mariners have registered at least 1 stolen base in each a scheduled game, ranging from of their last 8 games...Miami and San Francisco are tied for the next-most stolen bases in March 2-27. The next-closest Cac- the Majors with 23 apiece. tus League team are the Chicago White Sox, with games on 18 con- PEORIA STADIUM…the Mariners have averaged 1,812 fans in 13 openings at Peoria secutive days. Stadium this spring...including tonight, Seattle will play just 2 more games in 2021 at their Spring Training home...that includes tonight’s game where Seattle will play as the “road” team, batting 1st against the home San Diego Padres...the Mariners wrap up their 2021 3 Peoria Stadium schedule tomorrow with a 6:40 pm first pitch against the Giants. Mariners Manager Scott Servais has already named Marco Gonza- HAPPY FRIDAY…the Mariners are 2-0-1 in 3 Friday ballgames this spring, their only les as Opening Night starter for the undefeated day of the week...Seattle also owns a winning record on Sunday (3-1) and Mariners vs. the Giants on April 1... Tuesday (3-1), while remaining winless on Wednesday (0-3-1) and Saturday (0-2-1). will mark his third consecutive start on Opening Day, trailing only Félix LIVE BP…Seattle participated in a Live BP game at 2 pm PT today...left-hander Yusei Hernández (11), Randy Johnson (6) Kikuchi pitched in the session. and Jamie Moyer (4) for the most Opening Day starts in club history. PROSPECT RANKINGS…the Mariners are ranked by MLB.com as having the 3rd-best farm system in the Major Leagues, trailing only Tampa Bay and Detroit…Seattle’s Top THE ROSTER 100 prospects as listed by Major League Baseball’s official website includes 6 players: The spring roster is currently at 40 OF Jarred Kelenic (#4), OF Julio Rodríguez (#5), RHP Emerson Hancock (#31), RHP players (34 roster, 5 non-roster, 1 Logan Gilbert (#33), RHP George Kirby (#92) and OF Taylor Trammell (#100)...the #3 60-day IL)…the camp breakdown ranking by MLB.com comes after publications Baseball America and Baseball Prospectus by position is the following: 23 pitchers (3 non-roster, 1 60-day IL), 2 both ranked the Mariners as the #2 farm system in the Major Leagues. catchers, 5 infielders, 7 outfielders (2 non-roster) and 3 INF/OF. HEY DANIEL, AS YOU KNOW…the Mariners and Padres share a spring home in Peoria...the teams last met 26 days ago on February 28...Seattle had a scheduled off day ON THE AIR the very next day on March 1 and have played games in 24 consecutive days coming into Friday night’s game against the San tonight, but...DID YOU KNOW?...tonight’s Mariners starting pitcher Marco Gonzales Diego Padres (first pitch 6:40 pm local also started in that one, throwing 2.0 innings and allowing 1 unearned run on 2 hits and PT) will be broadcast live on 710 ESPN Seattle with Aaron Goldsmith with 1 walk...Evan White reached in all 3 of his plate appearances, going 1-for-1 with and Mike Blowers on the call... a double and 2 walks...before that, the teams last met in Spring Training on March 11, complete spring training day-by-day 2020 in a 4-2 Mariners win in 7 innings...that was the final 2020 spring contest before with TV and radio listings is listed on a rain cancellation the next day and ultimately Major League Baseball canceling the Page 2 of these game notes. remainder of 2020 Spring Training due to the COVID-19 pandemic. 2021 SPRING TRAINING GAME NOTES • MARCH 26, 2021 • AT SAN DIEGO PADRES #7 — MARCO GONZALES (LHP) YEAR TEAM W-L ERA G GS CG SHO IP H R ER HR BB SO 2020 SEATTLE 7-2 3.10 11 11 1 0 69.2 59 27 24 8 7 64 2021 SPRING 1-0 4.33 3 3 0 0 10.2 13 6 5 1 2 6 MLB Totals 41-27 4.09 96 88 2 0 516.2 539 256 235 61 128 420 2021 Spring Training - 1-0, 4.22 in 3G: Started the Mariners Cactus League opener on Feb. 28 vs. San Diego in the 5-4 win...allowed one unearned run, which came across via 2 first inning errors by Seattle’s defense...was credited with 2.0 innings pitched, but recorded only 5 outs, due to the top of the 1st being “rolled over” due to COVID-19 protocols that allow pitchers to be removed from the game after throwing 20 pitches in a frame...made his 2nd start on March 13 at Colorado in a 2-1 loss...in that outing, threw 4.0 scoreless IP with 2 hits allowed, no walks and 5 strikeouts...recorded a victory on March 19 vs. the White Sox, tossing 4.2 innings and allowing 5 earned runs on 9 hits in the 7-6 Mariners win.