GAME NOTES
MARINERS NOTES:
· Mariners win 3-0 and improve to 1-0 on the season.
o Marks the 4th time in franchise history that the Mariners have shutout their opponent on Opening Day (also: 1995, 2007 and 2013).
o The Mariners improve to 29-18 (.617) all-time on Opening Day, including winning their last 3 dating back to 2021.
o Today’s time of game of 2:14 minutes was the tied for the 2nd-quickest Opening Day game in franchise history (also: 1981)…trailed a 2:08 game to open the 2007 season.
· Tonight’s crowd of 45,268 was a sellout.
o Marks the Mariners largest Opening Day crowd at T-Mobile Park since 2018, when 47,149 fans were in attendance…that game was also against Cleveland.
· Luis Castillo did not allow a run in 6 innings while striking out 6 and allowing just 1 hit.
o He becomes just the 3rd different pitcher to toss 6.0+ scoreless innings on Opening Day, joining Félix Hernández (2x, 8.0 IP in 2007 and 7.2 IP in 2013) and Randy Johnson (6.0 IP in 1995)
o Castillo joins Hernández as the only pitchers in franchise history to toss at least 6.0 innings and allow 1-or-fewer hit on Opening Day…Hernández accomplished the feat in 2016 at Texas.
o Castillostruck out Amed Rosario with 1 out in the 1st inning for his first punch out of the 2023 season.
· Ty France broke the deadlock in the 8th inning with a 3-run home run…he became the 2nd Mariners player in franchise history to hit a go-ahead home run in the 8th inning (or later) on Opening Day, joining Jim Presley on April 8, 1986.
o France went 3-for-4 with a 2B, HR and 3 RBI in tonight’s game…the first baseman led the Mariners with 41 multi-hit games in 2022.
o France picked up the Mariners first hit of 2023 with a 2-out single in the 1st.
o France had 2 extra-base hits in tonight’s game…he had 2 in all of 2022.
· Kolten Wong, Tommy La Stella and Teoscar Hernández all made their Mariners debuts in tonight’s game.
· Outfielder Jarred Kelenic stole 2nd base in the 5th inning, becoming the first Mariners player to steal a base on Opening Day since Dylan Moore and Dee Strange-Gordon in 2019.
· Mariners relievers Matt Brash, Paul Sewald and Andrés Muñoz…combined for 3.0 innings pitched, allowing 3 hits and 0 walks while striking out 3.
o Brash struck out 2 in tonight’s game… His 11.0 K/9 ratio as a rookie in 2022 was the 8th-best mark in franchise history (min. 25 IP).
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