Bryan Woo was raised in Alameda, Calif., so he took specific curiosity when the Oakland Athletics performed their closing recreation on the Coliseum on Thursday earlier than they embark on a three-year layover in Sacramento en path to their deliberate new dwelling in Las Vegas.
“I’ve received lots of associates that had been there (Thursday) and noticed lots of stuff on social media,” the Seattle Mariners’ right-hander stated. “It was fairly cool to see how many individuals confirmed up (46,889). I’ve stated it earlier than, but it surely’s unlucky what occurred.
“And for me personally, so many recollections there. And I do know it is the identical for numerous others, folks that grew up having fun with baseball there, studying baseball there. I am undoubtedly glad they had been capable of exit on a win and a constructive word, I believe it means so much to town and the fan base.”
Woo wasn’t almost as nostalgic Friday, throwing 5 scoreless innings with eight strikeouts in a 2-0 victory in opposition to Oakland.
The season-ending, three-game collection between American League West rivals will proceed Saturday evening in Seattle.
Woo and relievers Gabe Speier, Gregory Santos, Tayler Saucedo and Troy Taylor mixed on a five-hitter with 14 strikeouts.
Woo improved to 3-0 with an 0.57 ERA in six profession begins in opposition to the A’s.
“We won’t determine him out. Going into subsequent season, we will need to make changes in opposition to this child,” A’s supervisor Mark Kotsay stated. “He had our quantity once more tonight, eight punchouts.”
Mitch Garver and Cal Raleigh hit solo homers for the Mariners on Friday. Raleigh’s homer was his thirty second of the season and gave him 97 RBIs, the a lot of the staff in each classes by a large margin.
Regardless of Seattle (83-77) being eradicated from postseason competition Thursday, a crowd of 41,429 confirmed up for the opener of the ultimate collection.
“These final three video games, you already know, I do not assume something’s shifted all that a lot,” Mariners supervisor Dan Wilson stated. “To be sincere, I believe our focus is to win these three video games. They’re simply as essential as the opposite ones. It does not have the playoff carrot on the finish. However that is what we’re about. We wish to win.”
The Mariners are scheduled to start out right-hander Emerson Hancock (4-4, 4.72 ERA) on Saturday. Hancock most lately pitched final Saturday, giving up two runs and 5 hits over 5 innings in an 8-4 victory over the Texas Rangers.
Hancock has by no means confronted the A’s, who’re scheduled to ship right-hander Joey Estes (7-9, 4.99) to the mound on Saturday.
Estes’ first two main league victories got here this season in opposition to the Mariners. Estes, who misplaced his main league debut to Seattle final September, is 2-2 with a 4.50 ERA in 4 profession begins in opposition to the Mariners.
He beat them 8-1 on Might 11 in Seattle for his first victory, giving up simply two hits and one run over 5 innings. Estes was even higher June 5 in Oakland, permitting the Mariners one hit over 6 1/3 innings in a 2-1 victory.
He suffered a 6-4 loss to Seattle on Sept. 5 at dwelling, when he gave up 4 runs on six hits in 4 innings.
That loss to Seattle led to an inconsistent closing month for Estes. He has dropped his previous two begins, permitting 11 runs on 16 hits over a mixed 5 innings. That features a 7-4 defeat to the New York Yankees on Sunday in his closing begin on the Coliseum earlier than the A’s (69-91) relocate.
–Area Degree Media
