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Seattle Mariners Gain Huge Break as a Result of Houston Astros’ Injury Woes
The Seattle Mariners beat the Houston Astros 6-1 on Monday night at Minute Maid Park in Houston. With the win, the Mariners are now 81-76 on the season. Though unlikely, they still have a flicker of playoff hope with five games to play.
Seattle is now 4.0 games back of the Astros in the American League West and 1.5 games back of both the Kansas City Royals and Detroit Tigers in the American League wild card.
As the M’s play this series with the Astros though, they have gotten a huge break because Astros star Yordan Alvarez won’t be playing in the rest of the series because of a knee injury suffered on Sunday.
Per Chandler Rome, Astros reporter, on social media:
Yordan Alvarez has a right knee sprain and will not play in this series against the Mariners, Joe Espada said. The Astros are not shutting the door on Alvarez returning this regular season.
Yordan Alvarez has a right knee sprain and will not play in this series against the Mariners, Joe Espada said. The Astros are not shutting the door on Alvarez returning this regular season.
— Chandler Rome (@Chandler_Rome) September 24, 2024
You certainly don’t want to see anyone get hurt, but the fact remains that Alvarez not playing is a huge benefit for the Mariners moving forward. One of the most feared sluggers in all of baseball, he’s hitting .308 this season with 35 homers and 86 RBI. He also has posted great numbers against the M’s in his career.
He hit a back-breaking home run in Game 1 of the ALDS against the Mariners which won the game for Houston. He also homered in Game 2 of that series.
Game 2 of this series will be played on Tuesday night at 5:05 p.m. PT.
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Thanks to Carrie Brown for the westward view of our Saturday night sunset. The high today hit 68 at the airport – eight degrees above normal – but nowhere near the record for this date, which was 89 degrees back in 2016. The forecast suggests two more days of partly sunny, almost-70-degree weather, before the chance of rain returns.
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.
Seattle Sports staff made additions to this post.
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