Kyle Seager of the Mariners turned around a terrible start to the season with two late inning home runs to lift Seattle to a 5-3 win over Houston Wednesday afternoon. About the only positive about Seager’s season coming into the game was ten walks in 19 games, which gave him a .156/.280/.219 slash line. When your OBP is that low, but it stands much higher than your slugging percentage, you know you’re in trouble. He hit a two-run homer in the seventh, then a walk-off three-run homer in the ninth to account for all of the Mariners runs, lifting his OBP to .304 and his slugging percentage to .328. Six of his 12 hits this season went for extra bases. If he can stay near that ratio and increase the frequency of getting hits, he’ll likely turn in a very good season.
Whoa, John Farrell just got Michael Pineda tossed for pine tar.
What was the “gentlemen’s agreement” supposed to be? The Sox’ broadcast team is going on and on about how the problem was that Pineda was not “discreet” about it, which makes no sense whatsoever.
Very interesting. I never really understood the “unwritten rule” thing.