The sailors act responsibly on Friday nights, take out the garbage cans first

Friday had a dubious start in the world of baseball. The MLB announced that Tim Anderson, the player who had been thrown by Brad Keller and expelled from the Royals / White Sox match, was also to be suspended for a match for using a racial insult during the cleanup. Shortly after this announcement, Mariners fans received very bad news on one of the best prospects of the system.

Rodriguez will be away for 4 to 6 weeks. It stings.

Nowadays, the RAP is very devastating and I do not like it.

Do you know what I like? Beat the angels.

You know what else than I like? Dingers.

And that match was on both fronts, even with Angel Hernandez behind the plate and despite a brief period of desperation and panic late in the game.

Catch up all the action in the game thread:

Marco Gonzales was aiming for his fifth victory of the season, which would have set a franchise record for pitcher wins by May 1st. by Brad Adam. He came out strong and extremely clever and launched seven rounds without drama. He conceded a point in a sacrificial volley in the fourth inning, but he also managed six crosses with a strikeout and two walks.

Then came the eighth dreaded round, before which my father and I exchanged this text:

Well shit, indeed. Sorry dad, I must now withdraw, shamefully, from the baseball blogging business. It's an honor and a privilege.

So, yes, Tim Beckham sent a ball to the ground and fired the transfer. David Fletcher reached the base in front of Mike Trout. Trout looked rather pedestrian in his previous three strikes attacks (a barrage, a broken line and a weak bat return broke to the mound) came to the plate and capitalized on his apparent long-time con by sending a just launch below the area. well beyond the central field fence. It was a rope-a-dope approved by Muhammad Ali (the dope being me).

This is how the mini-me version of last night's game went on, except that it was the starter who let the shots go by instead of the scapegoat scapegoat. Oops.

But, Tim Beckham had to make amends, and he quickly made it to the top of the ninth.

Immediately follow Omar Narváez's absolutely second test of absolutely absolutely GOLFED house in as many days.

The Mariners took the advantage 5-3 and Roenis Elias stepped in to put an end to all the trials without drama for his fourth save in 2019. Neat!

• This is the first Friday night victory for the 2019 Mariners. It feels good to start the weekend off right!
• In the second run, Jay Bruce hit his ninth house in 2019 and it came down on my Twitter feed:

I mean, Lydia is not wrong!

• It's no secret that I'm Daniel Vogelbach's long-time guardian. Here is his crucial two-point shot from the fourth in all its splendor:

• In the bottom of the seventh, Marco rolled absolutely and was able to feast on the soft belly of the lower third of the formation of the Angels. A long pass from Kole Calhoun in the middle of the field was followed by Peter Bourjos in infamous territory, then Marco came into play with this attack by Zack Cozart:

• The bottom of the eighth was quite an adventure. There was the dinger tying Trout game previously discussed, which prompted the Mariners in action. Cory Gearrin, who tries not to be seen by a Tyrannosaurus Rex, pulled out Simmons, but then hit Albert Pujols with a throw. Zach Rosscup came to meet Justin Bour, Homer Simpson's double, in real life:

You'll notice that Dee Gordon noticed that Bour chose NOT to run to first goal on a pop-up window. who then launches it non-chalantly at the first for double play. Here is Healy on his thought process during this piece:

God bless us all.

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The Mariners will face the Angels tomorrow at 18:07 in the third game of the series. Yusei Kikuchi is looking to rebound after his last tough start and mark his first win at MLB, but the Mariners are going to have to solve the wrapped mystery of an enigma that is Trevor Cahill. Go sailors. Hit Dingers.