RHP Bailey Ober made his seventh start of the season vs. the Mariners. He has struggled to find his grove with a 4.55 ERA over 31.2 IP this season. It started slow Tuesday, but he settled into an impressive outing.
It took only three Seattle batters for the Twins to get through the first inning, but a Mitch Haniger home run and RBI double from Dylan Moore give the Mariners a 2-0 lead and Ober needed 24 pitches to get through the inning.
The Twins’ bats began to heat up in the fourth inning. Trevor Larnach got the party started with an RBI single, then Ryan Jeffers added a three-run home run and Minnesota regained the lead 4-2.
Ober turned in one of his better outings of the season with seven strikeouts, only three hits and two earned runs through fiving innings of work. Cole Sands came in and relieved him of his pitching duties in the sixth inning.
Jay Jackson came in to replace Sands in the seventh inning and things began to unravel. The 36-year-old RHP allowed three baserunners and got only one out before Steven Okert came in to replace him. His first batter Cal Reigh hit a grand slam, giving the Mariners a 6-4 lead.
