Crappiest win ever......of all time

Hisashi Iwakuma went to the mound tonight against the last place Houston Astros. The last time Iwakuma pitched against this Houston team he struck out 11 batters but took the loss, so you know he was looking for some revenge tonight. Iwakuma started off his night in style, striking out the side but allowing a two out hit to Jason Castro. The Mariners and the Astros would go 1-2-3 in the next innings, the Mariners would get their first hit thanks to a very unlikely source in Kelly Shoppach, but Endy Chavez couldn't extend the inning and struck out to end the Mariners second inning. In the top half of the third inning the Astros got things started off with Marvin Gonzalez singling with one outs, Brandon Barnes laid down a bunt and on the throw by Iwakuma Brendan Ryan failed to catch the exchange throw which allowed Gonzalez to move to third base. Iwakuma's scoreless streak of 23 2/3 ended after Jose Altuve drove in Gonzalez with a sacrifice fly and the Astros took the early 1-0 lead.

In the bottom half of the third the Mariners started something good. After Ryan was called out on strikes Carlos Triunfel took one for the team and was able to get on base with one out. Jason Bay was able to extend his hitting streak to four games as he singled to left field, so with runners at first and second with one out the Mariners had a threat going, Kyle Seager struck out and Kendrys Morales ground out to end the threat for the Mariners and once again the M's failed to hit with runners in scoring position. The bottom of the fourth went different for the Mariners, this time the M's would succeed as Rauuuuuul Ibanez hit his team leading twelfth homerun of the season to tie the game at 1-1.

The Mariners would start off the bottom of the fifth inning right, Carlos Triunfel was able to get his first base hit of the 2013 campaign in his 14th at bat of the year. Kyle Seager would be able to get on second base after Triunfel got in a rundown and Seager would slide in safely. Morales was able to leg out the infield single and on the throwing error by Matt Dominguez Seager scored to give the Mariners the 2-1 lead. The Mariners would get an extra run in the bottom of the seventh inning, Jason Bay lead off the inning with a walk and after Seager lined out Morales was able to reach base on a missed catch by Jose Altuve and on the missed catch Bay was able to reach third. Mike Morse came up looking to help out the cause for the Mariners, he was able to drive one over J.D. Martinez's glove scoring Bay and advancing Morales to third, but that's all the Mariners would muster.

Iwakuma would pitch brilliantly for seven strong innings. Iwakuma's only tough inning would come in the top of the seventh inning, after giving up a lead off double to Carlos Pena and walking Chris Carter, Pena would move to third on the wild pitch by Iwakuma putting runners at the corners with only one out, but thanks to a lucky break Matt Dominguez grounded into an inning ending double play. Iwakuma would end his night with 8 strikeouts and lowered his ERA down to 1.79 and is now second in the American League only 8 points behind Clay Buchholz.

The bullpen would finish off Kuma's gem. Both Carter Capps and Charlie Furbush pitched in the eighth inning and did not surrender a run. In the ninth inning Tom "The Bartender" Wilhelmsen came in looking to get his fourth save in a row. Martinez lead off the inning for the Astros by getting an infield single thanks to Seager mishandling the ball in his glove but came back and struck out Carlos Pena and got Chris Carter to pop out. Now, with two outs Wilhelmsen looked like he would have and easy inning, but for some reason Tommy boy came down with what I call Ayalaitis and allowed a run to score. Tommy boy was able to recover and get Dominguez to pop out to Kendrys in foul territory to end the ball game and secure Tommy Boy his 16th save of the year.

NOTES: The Mariners not only improved to 28-37 but moved back into 3rd place tonight. Seager's 13 game hitting streak came to an end but Seager was able to safely get on base for the 15th game in a row.