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Bryce Miller shuts down Cubs as Seattle Mariners get 4-2 win
SEATTLE, WA – APRIL 12: Starter Bryce Miller #50 of the Seattle Mariners delivers a pitch during the first inning against the Chicago Cubs at T-Mobile Park on April 12, 2024 in Seattle, Washington. (Stephen Brashear / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Julio Rodríguez delivered a pair of RBIs, Bryce Miller pitched into the seventh inning without allowing an earned run, and the Seattle Mariners beat the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Friday night.
It’s the second straight start by Miller without allowing an earned run as he pitched seven scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers last week. Miller allowed three hits and three walks with four strikeouts in his outing against the Cubs.
“Bryce Miller’s on a roll,” manager Scott Servais said. “The addition of the split-finger and some other things he’s added to his repertoire has really paid off and it’s been fun to watch.”
Last season, Miller relied almost entirely on the strength of his fastball. Miller used his four-seam fastball on nearly 60 percent of his pitches last season with a slider as he primary off-speed option. Miller added the splitter this offseason, and it has already become a go-to pitch for Miller.
“Last year if I was getting hit early, it’s like ‘I don’t really know where to go’ and right now I feel like I have options,” Miller said. “If they’re adjusting, I can adjust as well. So like I said it’s been big and it helps the confidence in getting the lineup through the third time and just knowing that more than likely I still have pitches that they haven’t seen yet and I can throw any pitch in any counts so they’re not just sitting heater.”
Miller now has a 1.96 ERA with 17 strikeouts in 18 ⅓ innings pitched this season for Seattle.
While Miller shined, the Mariners took advantage of control issues by Jordan Wicks as walks came back to burn the Chicago starter. Wicks allowed four runs on five hits and four walks along with a wild pitch. Wicks walked the bases loaded in the fourth inning before Rodríguez delivered the biggest hit of the night for Seattle.
“Big thing for me tonight is we took the walks,” Servais said. “Something we have not been doing. We got to get better at that and it paid off tonight.”
Mitch Haniger and Jorge Polanco each singled, and Mitch Garver walked to set the table for the bottom half of the lineup. But after a Cal Raleigh strikeout and Dylan Moore flyout, it took Luis Urías being hit by a pitch to ultimately drive across a run.
Raleigh ultimately struck out four times in the game for the Mariners.
Wicks then walked three batters in the fourth inning to provide the Mariners another prime opportunity to break the game open. And this time, Rodríguez obliged.
Rodríguez’s liner to center field dropped just in front of Cody Bellinger as Garver and Moore scored to give Seattle a 3-0 lead.
“I expect myself to come up to the plate and deliver in those situations for the team,” Rodríguez said. “That’s what I prepare for and I feel like every time that happens it’s something that I expect for myself.”
Ty France followed with a single to right field as J.P. Crawford scored for a four-run lead.
Miller left the game after walking Nico Hoerner on his 100th pitch of the night with one out in the seventh inning.
Hoerner advanced to second on an errant pick-off throw to first base by reliever Trent Thornton. That extra base then allowed Hoerner to score when Urías’ throw to first off a groundball to third base ran into the baseline with France dropping the ball as Yan Gomes clipped his glove. The ball got away and Hoerner sped home to get the Cubs on the board with an unearned run.
On a chilly and breezy night at T-Mobile Park, there were only two extra base hits by either team in the game both coming via Cubs first baseman Michael Busch. Busch had a two-out double into the right field corner in the top of the fourth inning that Miller kept off the board. Busch then homered off Ryne Stanek in the ninth inning for the line earned run of the night for Chicago in the loss.
Stanek picked up his second save of the season for Seattle.
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CHICAGO (AP) — The struggling New York Mets placed former Seattle Mariners second baseman/designated hitter Jorge Polanco on the 10-day injured list on Saturday with a right wrist contusion.
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The move was made retroactive to Wednesday, a day after Polanco went 0 for 4 with two strikeouts in a 2-1 loss at the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 32-year-old Polanco is batting .179 (10 for 56) with a homer and two RBIs in his first season with New York, which has lost nine straight.
“When doctors first took a look at him, it looked like he got hit by a pitch when he didn’t,” manager Carlos Mendoza said. “In talking to him, it was just a couple of swings that he took that night. … He didn’t think much of it, but just got worse the following day.
“So you just got to let it calm down a little bit and then we’ll go from there. But we don’t have a timetable for how long this is going to last.”
Polanco, who signed a two-year, $40 million contract with the Mets in December, also has been dealing with an ankle issue.
“He was trending in the right direction,” Mendoza said of the ankle injury. “It’s definitely going to help, obviously now with him being shut down. But the biggest thing now is that we’ve got to take care of that wrist.”
Polanco spent the previous two seasons with the Mariners, who acquired him in a February 2024 trade with the Minnesota Twins.
Polanco struggled during his first season with Seattle in 2024, hitting just .213 with 16 homers in 118 games while playing through a knee injury that didn’t become public knowledge until after the season.
But after the Mariners somewhat surprisingly brought him back for a one-year contract in 2025, Polanco rebounded to hit .265 with 26 homers and an .821 OPS in 138 games last season. He then added three homers during Seattle’s playoff run, along with a 15th-inning walkoff single in Game 5 of the American League Division Series that sent the Mariners to their first ALCS in 24 years.
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Brandon Nimmo hits leadoff homer, Jacob deGrom works 4 scoreless as Rangers beat Seattle Mariners 5-0
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON – APRIL 17: Corey Seager #5 of the Texas Rangers tags out Dominic Canzone #8 of the Seattle Mariners during the fourth inning at T-Mobile Park on April 17, 2026 in Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers / Getty Images)
SEATTLE – Brandon Nimmo hit a leadoff home run, Jacob deGrom threw four shutout innings and Gavin Collyer earned his first career win as the Texas Rangers beat the Seattle Mariners 5-0 on Friday night.
Seattle lost its fourth straight game, and was shut out for the fourth time in 21 games, falling to 8-13. The Mariners were shut out six times during the 2025 season. Texas won its third straight game.
Nimmo led off the game with a 372-foot shot to right field off Mariners starter Logan Gilbert (1-3). It was Nimmo’s 16th career leadoff homer and second of the season. He also hit a leadoff home run on April 11 in a 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Dodgers.
DeGrom effectively maneuvered through Seattle’s lineup, and worked out of a one out, bases-loaded jam in the first inning. The two-time Cy Young Award winner recorded two of his three strikeouts after walking Josh Naylor to load the bases. Randy Arozarena fanned on a curveball, and Luke Raley swung through a fastball.
Texas added to its lead after Nimmo’s homer. Wyatt Langford’s single to left scored Corey Seager, who led off the third inning with a double. The Rangers stretched the lead to 3-0 on an RBI single from Jake Burger in the seventh.
The Mariners’ best scoring chance came in the sixth after Collyer (1-0), who worked 1 1/3 scoreless innings, left the game.
J.P. Crawford singled to left off Tyler Alexander with two out, and Mariners third base coach Carlos Cardoza sent Naylor from second base, but he was thrown out by Langford.
Texas added two more runs in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Andrew McCutchen and an RBI double by Josh Jung.
Seattle third baseman Brendan Donovan left the game early due to a left hip issue.
Mariners right-hander Bryce Miller, who started the year on the injured list with a left oblique injury, was at T-Mobile Park for the first time this season. He will begin a rehab assignment with Triple-A Tacoma on Saturday.
Up next
Mariners RHP George Kirby (2-2, 3.25) will face Rangers righty Nathan Eovaldi (2-2, 5.40) on Saturday afternoon.
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FIFE, Wash. – A portion of southbound I-5 will be closed overnight in Fife Friday and Saturday night, according to WSDOT.
The Washington State Department of Transportation says the purpose of the closure is to install a new electronic sign and will need two nights to do it.
Crews will close southbound I-5 from 54th Avenue to Port of Tacoma Road starting at 11 p.m. Friday night until 7:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Closures will resume Saturday night starting at 11 p.m. as well, and lanes will reopen Sunday morning at 8:30 a.m.
WSDOT says the closure will include the 54th Avenue ramps to southbound I-5.
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