Cardiovascular challenge?

Can we take these kinds of games?  Ms won their fourth of five games, beating Boston 6 to 5, but only after another frightening ninth inning that looked like the meltdown of the night before.  Except this time Rumbeloe struck out Bogaerts for the last out before the Red Sox could push across the go-ahead run.

Once again, the M's scored early and big, six runs in five innings.  Leake pitched well.  The ninth was the stuff of nightmares.  In a lifetime of games I've never seen a player commit three errors on three consecutive plays as utility thirdbaseman Dylan Moore did last night.  All with two out.  It was a tough break for the rookie making his first MLB start; he went ohferfour with three strikeouts, too.

Moore's miscues sent Twitterati to the record books to see if this had occured before.  Of course it has, many have committed three errors in the same inning.  Consecutive plays?  I dunno.  My search turned up this fascinating piece of baseball lore.  In 1899, Mike Grady, New York Giants thirdbaseman (it ain't called the hot corner for nuthin) committed four errors on the same play.  It went like this:  groundball to Grady, bobbled for first error, threw it over the head of the firstbaseman for the second, had the throw back trying to nail the runner at third bounce off his glove for number three, he retrieved it and promptly made his fourth error when he overthrew the catcher in an effort to put out the batter at home.  So, for poor Dylan it could have been worse.

It was nice to see the players, especially Ryon Healy, rally around him at the end of the game.

Ms wrap up this series with Boston today.  They meet again this season for three games at Fenway.  Mariner batters are going to miss Red Sox pitching,  The first six in the Ms lineup in the last three games are batting .383.