Mariners' road struggles continue with another tough loss to Guardians

Ryan Divish, The Seattle Times on Aug 30, 2025

Published in Baseball

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CLEVELAND — The Mariners can continue to “battle” and “show plenty of fight,” but at some point soon, they need to start executing and winning in games not played in T-Mobile Park. Remember, fight and battle aren’t categories for postseason qualification.

And achieving that playoff goal, once almost seeming like a given, is growing less certain with each road failure.

Seattle dropped its seventh consecutive road game on Saturday with a disappointing 4-3 loss to the Cleveland Guardians. The Mariners will try to avoid being swept on Sunday afternoon with right-hander Bryce Miller getting the start.

The Mariners haven’t won a road series since sweeping the Tigers in a three-game series leading into All-Star break. They split a four-game series at Anaheim after the break and then dropped road series to the A’s, Orioles, Mets, Phillies and now the Guardians. That’s a 5-13 record in road games in those series.

It’s sort of difficult to win a division title when you can’t win on the road.

Logan Gilbert gave the Mariners a workable start, pitching six innings and allowing three runs on four hits with a walk and eight strikeouts.

His teammates provided him zero runs of support over the first six innings against Cleveland starter Gavin Williams.

Going back to Friday’s walk-off loss in which they scored four runs in the first inning and went scoreless the rest of the way, the Mariners went 14 innings without scoring. Jorge Polanco ended the drought with one out in the seventh, smashing a solo blast to right field for his 22nd homer of the year.

After Caleb Ferguson allowed a run in relief in the bottom of the seventh the Mariners trailed 4-1.

Julio Rodríguez cut the lead to 4-3 in the eighth, smashing a two-run homer to left field. But the Cleveland bullpen closed out Seattle in the ninth.