SEATTLE — Corbin Burnes wasn’t going to push too onerous and danger a bit little bit of discomfort turning into a much bigger downside this early within the season.
Burnes pitched 5 1/3 innings earlier than leaving with a left pectoral pressure, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Seattle Mariners 7-3 on Monday night time for his or her fourth win in 5 video games.
While the Brewers continued to seek out success on the West Coast the rapid concern was the standing of their workers ace.
And it might not be as dangerous because it first appeared.
The 2021 NL Cy Young Award winner had simply recorded the primary out of the sixth inning on Julio Rodríguez lengthy fly out to middle area. Burnes (2-1) turned towards the Milwaukee dugout and summoned an athletic coach and supervisor Craig Counsell and was faraway from the sport.
Burnes was pointing at his chest as he spoke with Milwaukee’s workers.
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“Just one of those things that it was starting to cramp up and tighten up and it was affecting me mechanically,” Burnes stated. “The more I threw the more it was starting to get not necessarily painful but just started to cramp up and started to get tighter and tighter.”
Burnes believed the harm occurred two innings earlier when he made the tag on Seattle’s Eugenio Suárez throughout a rundown that ended the fourth inning.
Burnes allowed two runs on three hits with three strikeouts. One of these runs scored instantly after he left the sport as Ty France’s RBI double scored J.P. Crawford.
In his earlier begin Burnes threw eight shutout innings in opposition to Arizona.
“When we compared to the last start, it’s a little difficult because that was as good as it gets,” Counsell stated. “I thought he did a nice job today.”
Seattle starter Chris Flexen (0-3) threw six innings for Seattle, but it surely was the second inning that put the Mariners in a gap. Flexen allowed 4 hits and three runs within the inning, together with Luke Voit’s RBI double and Owen Miller’s RBI single.
Brian Anderson added an RBI single within the sixth off Flexen and the Brewers added two extra within the seventh off reliever Penn Murfee. Pinch-hitter Brice Turang hit his second homer of the season on the primary pitch from Murfee and William Contreras added a two-out RBI single.
“It being up and down the lineup, not being just one or two guys, everybody is involved,” Anderson stated.
Seattle’s Cal Raleigh hit his second homer of the season within the second inning and Rodríguez homered within the eighth, his third. But Seattle additionally had a key baserunning mistake and two errors.
“We just didn’t play a clean game. When you don’t play clean, we’re just not going to beat too many team,” Seattle supervisor Scott Servais stated.
PITCH CLOCK PICKOFF
Burnes used the pitch clock to his benefit to wiggle out of a jam within the fourth inning. With two runners on and two outs, Burnes held a 3-2 pitch to Jarred Kelenic till practically the final second. But as an alternative of throwing to the plate, he spun and caught Suárez too far off second and was finally tagged out by Burnes.
“Just took advantage of him being a little over aggressive there and think I caught everyone in the stadium off guard,” Burnes stated.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brewers: OF Jesse Winker was out of the beginning lineup because of a sore indirect, however Counsell stated Winker made it via his pregame exercise and certain might be within the lineup Tuesday.
Mariners: Seattle positioned IF/OF Sam Haggerty on the 7-day injured checklist after hitting his head diving for a groundball over the weekend. Haggerty was feeling higher however might be out till the upcoming weekend. … IF/OF Dylan Moore (indirect) is anticipated to start out a rehab project within the minors this week.
UP NEXT
Brewers: RHP Colin Rea (0-0, 1.59) makes his second begin. Rea allowed one run and two hits with six strikeouts in his first begin of the season final week at San Diego.
Mariners: RHP Logan Gilbert (1-1, 2.70) allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings in a win over the Chicago Cubs in his final begin.
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