The Seattle Mariners may be on the high of the AL West standings with a 27-24 file, however they misplaced once more vs. the New York Yankees and are one of many worst division leaders in baseball.
They presently boast the worst file amongst division leaders and are the one one with a unfavourable run differential, at -4.
The state of affairs could be partially defined by Julio Rodriguez’s prolonged hunch.
The 23-year-old star and former AL Rookie of the 12 months went 0-for-4 on Thursday in opposition to the Yanks’ high pitching employees, and his general season line fell to a disappointing .257/.306/.312 with a .618 OPS.
The contact numbers aren’t too totally different from what he has achieved in his profession, however his energy has utterly disappeared.
Issues are beginning to grow to be worrisome.
Total, J-Rod had a depressing sequence in opposition to New York, additional extending his hunch.
“Julio Rodriguez went 1-for-16 on this sequence in opposition to Yankees pitching,” Yankees insider Bryan Hoch tweeted.
Julio Rodriguez went 1-for-16 on this sequence in opposition to Yankees pitching.
The middle fielder, normally an extra-base hit machine, has simply 5 doubles and two house runs in 51 video games this season.
His RBI tally is simply 14, and his slugging share is at risk of going decrease than .300.
Seattle deserves quite a lot of credit score to be the place they presently are with Rodriguez enjoying like this.
As soon as he wakes up from his doldrums (a possible final result given, properly, historical past), the Mariners might grow to be rather more harmful.
They already are, with that wonderful pitching employees, however they want J-Rod to be significantly better in the event that they wish to put collectively a World Sequence run.