MLB The Show 23 Franchise Mode Discussion

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2023 Washington Nationals

The Nationals (40-45) return home to take on the Pittsburgh Pirates (37-48) in a four game series. The Pirates started the season off hot, leading the NL Central at the end of April; but their season has gone into a downward spiral since and they now find themselves with one of the worst records in the majors.

Game One: Mitch Keller (5-6, 3.58) vs Stephen Strasburg (7-6, 2.06)
The Nationals were the first to break the scoring drought in the fifth; Yadiel Hernandez singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch. Then Joey Meneses and Gleyber Torres hit back to back singles to score Hernandez. The Pirates would start the game going 0-12 with runners in scoring position, but they would finally get a run in the seventh when Josh VanMeter singled, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on a Bubba Chandler double. The Pirates would add on in the ninth when Michael Chavis doubled off of Carl Edwards Jr and Josh VanMeter followed up with a two run home run. The Nationals would get the winning run to the plate but could not come through off veteran closer Adam Ottavino, and the Pirates take Game 1.

Game Two: Jerad Eickoff (4-6, 3.53) vs MacKenzie Gore (6-7, 3.86)
Lane Thomas, who has been an all or nothing type of hitter this year, hit his team leading 12th home run in the bottom of the second to give the Nationals an early lead.They added another in the second when Brandon Nimmo doubled, advanced to third on a wild pitch, and scored when Yadiel Hernandez grounded out to second. The Pirates would bring in J.T. Brubaker in the sixth, he struck out Joey Meneses and then had to leave the game on the next batter when Gleyber Torres hit a line drive that deflected off his shoulder*. The Pirates then had to turn to Zach Thompson. He would prevent any further offense from Wasbington, but MacKenzie Gore was fantastic, going 6.2 shutout innings, giving up four hits and striking out three. Aaron Bummer and Trevor Rosenthal would finish off the game to give Washington an easy 2-0 win. Their offense was not great, despite having 9 hits, but a win is a win.


*J.T. Brubaker is having tightness in his shoulder and will miss a few days

Game Three: Roansy Contreras (4-6, 4.25) vs Josiah Gray (5-7, 3.29)
The game of small ball would continue in the third game of the series. Pittsburgh scored in the third when Bubba Chandler singled and advanced to second on a wild pitch, and then scored on a Tucupita Marcano single. Hoy Park would be up next, and he would homer on a hanging slider to put the Pirates up 3-0. The Nationals would get a run back in the fifth; Lane Thomas singled but was forced out at second when Kike Hernandez hit a ground ball deep in the hole to short. Oneil Cruz made a fantastic diving stop for it and barely threw out Thomas. Hernandez would make up for it by going first to third on a weak single to center from Wilmer Perez, and he would score when CJ Abrams singled to center. That would be it for this game, both bullpens were lights out and neither team could really put hits together.

Game Four: Trevor Williams (6-6, 2.80) vs Zach Davies (5-6, 3.50)
Bryan Reynolds started the scoring with a solo shot in the first, but Joey Meneses would even the score in the second with a solo home run of his own. He would drive in another run in the third on a sac fly and Anderson Tejeda would follow with a two out single to put the Nationals ahead 3-1. Lane Thomas led off the fourth with a ground ball that deflected off of Williams, who injured his finger on the play and had to leave the game*. The Nationals would add an insurance run in the bottom of the eighth when Ildemaro Vargas singled to right, Connor Scott attempted a diving catch but could not keep the ball in the glove and that allowed Joey Meneses to score from second. Trevor Rosenthal would get the save, remaining perfect on the year.

*Trevor Williams suffered a finger confusion and will miss 1-2 weeks

It was an interesting series, and neither team could really mount much offense. The Nationals are definitely missing Brandon Drury in the middle of the lineup, and they are tired as they are in the middle of a long stretch of games. The Nationals are a contact team and really thrive when they can string hits together, but it just did not happen in this series. On the other hand, the Pirates came in with a very young roster, many of these players are rookies this year or are in their second year. They are still raw, but there is a lot of speed and some pop in the bats with this young team, and they are going to be fun to watch in the coming years.

Washington (42-47) will stay home to host the Phillies (41-48) for three games.

[moemoe24]

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I play every pitch of every game

This year, I am trying something a bit different. Streaming every game live on my youtube channel.

I played this game from 2008 through 2014 every pitch of every game, one game a day following real life moves. Got a little tired of keeping track of daily transactions and quit playing. Just got a ps5 and have the desire again to put in the time to do that again. The hardest part was finding a team i like since my favorite players have all retired since last time i played. I started with the braves. So far so good. Will see how it goes

[LegendKillerOne]

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Mets (4-0) take 2 of 3 from Brewers (2-1)

The Mets travelled to Milwaukee to wrap up the 7 game road trip to start the season.

Game 1- Quintana (0-0) vs Lauer (0-0)
The Brewers would get out in front early in this one on a 2 run homer by Brian Anderson for an early 2-0 lead That would hold until the 6th when the Mets would finally break through on an RBI single by Brandon Nimmo followed by a Sac Fly from Pete Alonso to tie the game at 2-2. It would stay that way until the top of the 9th when with 2 on and 2 ours the Mets would bring in Starling Marte to pinch hit and he ripped a single to left field that gave the Mets a 3-2 lead. However, Edwin Diaz would not be on his A game today. He would come in walk the first batter, give up a single to the second. Then after a strike out Luis Urias would line a game tying single to right field. Then with 1st and 3rd and 1 out Brian Anderson would play hero again lacing a line drive single up the middle for a 4-3 Brewers win

WP- Aaron Ashby (1-0)
LP- Edwin Diaz (0-1)


Game 2- Justin Verlander (1-0 3.00) vs Wade Miley (0-0)
Verlander and Miley were both dealing in this one. Miley would give up 1 run over 6 innings on an RBI single from Tommy Pham. Verlander would also limit the Brewers to 1 run over 6 innings on a solo home run to Luis Urias. In the top of the 7th though Edguardo Escobar taking advantage of the second chance at Met life hit a solo home run his 3rd of the year already to give the Mets the 2-1 lead. They would hold that lead as David Robertson would come in and get the save for the 2-1 Mets Win

WP- Justin Verlander (2-0)
LP- Adrian Houser (1-2)
S- David Robertson (1)

Game 3- Max Scherzer (0-0 5.40) vs Corbin Burnes (0-0 1.29)
Scherzer would be on point in this one going 7 strong, allowing only 4 hits and striking out 8. Burnes was good except for when he faced Daniel Vogelbach. Voggy would hit a solo HR his first of the year in the 2nd, then he would add a solo HR his second of the season in the 5th and would go 3-4 i this one. That really would be all the Mets needed as Diaz would come in and get the save in 9th his second of the season and the Mets would win the rubber matchup 3-1

WP- Max Scherzer (1-0)
LP- Corbin Burnes (0-1)
S- Edwin Diaz (2)


Next up the Mets (5-1) get ready for their home opener against the Miami Marlins (1-6)


None of the 6 teams who were unbeaten are still unbeaten. Every team has lost a game. The biggest shock so far. The defending champs Houston Astros are 0-7

Around the Horn

Padres- Jake Cronenworth is on the 10 day DL with broken hand (Brandon Dixon called up)

Cards- Tyler O'Neill is on the 10 day dl with a broken forearm (Alec Burelson has been called up)

Guardians- Myles Straw is on the 10 day DL with shoulder damage (Will Brennan has come up)

[JayDaMeanest]

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Cubs Wrap Up: 2023 Presented by Jay

The Cubs finished spring training relatively healthy, but two contributors will be sidelined to start the year. Seiya Suzuki suffered an oblique strain but is only expected to miss the IL minimum; Kyle Hendricks is still returning from shoulder surgery but could return sometime in May. Chicago has a number of promising up-and-comers in camp, but none did enough to impress and make the opening-day roster. Matt Mervis and Brennen Davis will head to AAA Iowa to get consistent at-bats. Chris Morel, will likely join them once Suzuki returns.

Opening Day Lineup:
2B - Nico Hoerner
SS - Dansby Swanson
LF - Ian Happ
CF - Cody Bellinger
1B - Trey Mancini
DH- Edwin Rios
3B - Patrick Wisdom
RF - Miles Mastrobuoni
C - Yan Gomes

Bench
Eric Hosmer 1B/DH
Luis Torren - C
Tucker Barnhart - C
Christopher Morel - Utl
Nick Madrigal- Inf

Rotation
Marcus Stroman
Justin Steele
Jameson Taillon
Drew Symly
Hayden Weskenski

Bullpen
Adbert Alzolay
Javier Assad
Keegan Thompson
Julian Merryweather
Jeremiah Estrada
Brad Boxberger
Closer- Fulmer

Injury List
Codi Heuer - Likely out until June recovering from TJS
Kyle Hendricks - Expected out until Mid May
Seiya Suzuki - Cubs hope he will return 2nd or 3rd week of the season.



Chicago start ‘23 season against Brewers.

Spring Training left many questions unanswered for the North Siders, and the big ones will center around if their lineup can produce enough runs to keep them in contention.

On opening day, Marcus Stroman was electric as he kept the brewers off balance through 6 innings; he struck out 11, and the only run around was unearned due to a Swanson error. At the plate, the Cubs did just enough to eke out a win; 3-1. Cody Bellinger started his time on the North Side with a bang as he went 2 for 4; he scored the first run of the year when Mancini drove him in the 2nd inning and plated the go-ahead runs in the 6th with his second double of the day. In the second game, Justin Steele was equally impressive as he held the Brewers at bay, allowing only one run. The Cubs' only offense came from Nick Madrigal’s two-run double. The Cubs earned the sweep even though Jameson Taillon did not have his best stuff. He struggled with control and gave up weak contact in the 1st as Milwaukee struck first; a throwing error by Edwin Rios kept the inning alive and allowed the first run to score when he sent a throw into the opposing dugout. The final game in the series saw the first home runs of the year as Wisdom, Hosmer, and Gomes all homered. The game was back and forth until Gome’s three-run blast in the 7th put the Cubs ahead 6-3. The bullpen was shaky as the brewers had either a tying or go-ahead run come to the plate in the last three innings but could not get a timely hit to overcome the deficit.

After the opening weekend sweep, the Cubs will head to Cincinnati for a three-game slate against the Reds.

[chitown1-23]

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I have 3 games left in May I’ll post stats and standings then but as the cubs I have traded Drew Smyly to the Diamondbacks for Andrew Chafin. Both pitchers struggling with ERAs over 5 and Arizona needed a starter annd they’re just 2 games under .500 and I needed a lefty reliever.

[TeejMoore]

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Dbacks offense folds under pressure, Texas sweeps two game set

When it mattered most against Texas(19-11), the Dbacks bats were no where to be found. Or maybe it was the fact that they were outhit 19-9 in the series. Either way, starting pitching was solid, and the bullpen let them down late in both.

They now sit in second tied with San Diego, a game behind LA.

Game 1: MadBum continued to pitch well going 6 strong with 4 hits 7 Ks and 2 earned. However the Dbacks would only be able to muster one run so he would be left on the hook for his first lost of the year.

Game 2: The Dbacks can't lose with Gallen on the mound right? Wrong, now while the loss definitely was not credited to him. When he left the game the Dbacks were up 3-1, behind 3 runs in the first two innings, and then a one run inning for the Rangers in the fifth. However in the eighth, Chafin(who had not given up a run coming into the game). gave up a humongous no doubt shot to Lowe to cut it to one. Mantiply entered who had not blown a save all year... Until this game. He also would give up his first (two) run(s) of the year to ultimately blow the save and lose the game on a two out single by Corey Seager.

The Dbacks now head home to celebrate Cinco De Mayo with the home fans at Chase Field to kick off a 10 game homestand that pits them against WSH(13-18) for 3, MIA(14-18) for 3, and then SF(12-19) for 4 to end it.

Probable Starters
Davies(2-2, 3.10) v Gore (1-5, 9.43)
Nelson(3-2, 3.31) v Gray(2-2, 2.45)
Archer(Team Debut) v Williams (3-2, 3.41)

[bigjdotcom01]

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June 20-22: FLAGSTAFF (53-21) @ EL PASO (40-35)
Stadium: Southwest University Park (Capacity: 9,323)

June 20: Hops 3, Blue Rocks 2
June 21: Hops 4, Blue Rocks 0
June 22: Blue Rocks 8, Hops 3

El Paso, TX (AP) - The Flagstaff Hops opened up a nine game road trip by taking two of three from the El Paso Blue Rocks.

The Hops opened up their road trip with a workmanlike 3-2 victory over the Blue Rocks. Ryan Pressley (9-3) picked up his ninth win, tossing seven innings and allowing two runs on just three hits.

Flagstaff would grab the lead in the first inning on an Emmitt Hampton solo home run, his 18th on the season. They would extend that lead to 2-0 in the fourth on a Josh Ortega solo home run, his 20th. John Benitez drove home Donnie Roland with an RBI double in the fourth to put the Hops up 3-0.

That would be enough offense for Ryan Pressley. But he did give up a two-run home run to Antonio Pena in the seventh to cut the lead to 3-2.

Vic Miller would once again walk the tightrope in the ninth. He gave up a leadoff single to Josh Hawk and a one out single to Antonio Pena. But was able to strikeout Bennett and McKenzie to end the game and pick up his 25th save.

On Wednesday evening, Josh Ortega broke a scoreless tie with a two-run home run in the seventh to help the Hops to a 4-0 victory. It was Ortega’s 21st on the season to lead the club.

The Hops would add tow more insurance runs in the top of the ninth on an Oscar Aleman RBI single and Shoe-Lace O’Tying sacrifice fly.

Juro Yamagychi (7-3) pitched seven shutout innings, scattering five hits and striking out four. Aldo Osuna picked up the save, his second, as he picked up the final six outs.

Emmitt Hampton went 2 for 4 with a double and two runs scored.

In the finale, it was all Blue Rocks as they cruised to an 8-3 victory. Josh Hawk and Antonio Pena both went 3 for 5 with a home run to help the Blue Rocks avoid a sweep.

El Paso (40-35) got off to a good start as Antonio Pena homered for the second straight game in the second to put the Blue Rocks in front 1-0. The Hope would tie it up in the third on a throwing error, allowing Isaac Nettles to score.

The Blue Rocks would get two clutch two-out, two-run singles in this one. Bud Perez had the first one in the fourth to put El Paso up 3-1. Shuheii Takahashi would add one in the sixth to put this one out of reach at 6-3.

Bryan Higgins (5-6) picked up the win for El Paso, tossing five innings and allowing two runs on five hits while striking out five. Sam Herzog (6-6) took the loss for Flagstaff, allowing four runs on nine hits in five innings of work. Both Sam Valera and Samuel Espinoza allowed two runs out of the bullpen.

The Hops will now head to San Antonio to take on the defending champions in a three game weekend series.

Notes: El Paso catcher Omar Chavez pulled up running the bases in the eighth inning and it was determined that he suffered a torn hamstring and will likely miss 8-12 weeks.

Around the League: Gilbert’s Gilberto Medrano (10-2) tossed a complete game, two-hit shutout as the Barnstormers defeated the Desert Dogs 2-0. Chandler’s Carlos Vargas had to leave his start and was diagnosed with a torn labrum that will end his season. The 30-year-old was (7-2) with a 2.87 ERA to help lead Chandler to first place in the DL East.

San Diego’s Matt Mulder hit a grand slam and Federico Quintana (5-3) tossed eight innings of two-hit baseball as the Seals defeated Las Vegas 8-1.

Gilbert’s Hideo Yoshida went 4 for 5 with two home runs, including a two-run walk off homer in the ninth as the Barnstormers rallied to defeat Glendale 5-4. Las Vegas’ Tawn Kramer went 3 for 4 with three home runs and drove in six as the Nuggets crushed Matt Campbell and the San Diego Seals 14-7. Campbell was chased after allowing six runs on seven hits in just 2.2 innings. The 24-year-old Kramer has now hit five home runs in just 39 at-bats since his recall from Triple-A Salt Lake.

Chandler (47-30) has suddenly lost five straight as they dropped a 6-5 decision in extra innings to Long Beach. Adrian Esparza hit a three-run home run to tie it in the seventh and Deon Machado hit a solo homer in the tenth as the Surf Dawgs opened their series in Chandler with a win.

Jamaal McCormick went deep three times and drove in seven as St George crushed San Antonio 15-5.

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Shuheii Takahashi watches this Josh Ortega blast leave the yard.

[LowerWolf]

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First series of the season is out of the way. We swept the Nats. There are a bunch of teams at either 3-0 or 0-3 to start the year. We head to St. Louis next to face the 3-0 Cardinals.

Pitching has dominated for us so far. Olson is still looking for his first hit, although he's drawn several walks. Albies leads us with two homers. He and Riley lead the team with four RBIs.

[LegendKillerOne]

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Mariners Open Season Losing 3 of 4 to Guardians

If you read back about 15 pages I mentioned I would run one AL and one NL franchise to see which one I enjoy more. For the AL I am rolling with Mariners. Team on the rise but maybe not there yet

Play Level- All Star but using the S&B Sliders which make for a very realistic game play.

Roster Control- 30 Team just to monitor trades.


Opening Day Roster
SP- L Castillo, R Ray, L Gilbert, M Gonzales, G Kirby
RP- A Munoz, P Murfee, M brash, D Castillo, C Flexen, M Festa, T Gott
CL- P Sewald

C- C Raleigh, T Murphy, C Hummel
IF- T France, K Wong, T La Stella, E Suarez, J Crawford
OF- A Pollock, S Hagerty, J Kelenic, J Rodriguez, T Hernandez

Guardians (0-0) vs Mariners (0-0) 4 Game Set

The season did not start out how the Mariners wanted dropping 3 of 4 at home to the Guardians in an early season battle of two playoff contenders

Not much went right in this series for the Mariners. Mariners starting pitching would give up a total of 8 homeruns in 4 games. two to Jose Ramirez and FOUR to Mike Zunino who is the early season leader in home runs.

Mariners would lose game one by the score of 5-2 as Luis Castillo gave up 5 runs on two home runs and Shane Bieber would be lights out aside from a two run homer by Cal Raleigh

Game 2 the Mariners would get even. They would get a home run from Raleigh (2) again and a solo shot from Wong (1). Robbie ray was outstanding throwing 7 innings of 5 hit ball striking out 8 and only allowing 1 run to even the series 1-1 behind a 6-1 win

Game 3 would go back and forth and go extra innings. After the Guardians jumped out to an early 2-0 lead the Mariners would get back to even on a sac fly in the 5th and a sac fly in the 7th to take it to extra innings. In the 11th Cleveland would push one across only to see Seattle tie it in the bottom of the 11th. In the 12th one again Cleveland would take the lead on an RBI single by Josh Naylor. In the bottom of the 12th Seattle would have the bases loaded with no outs. However JP Crawford would strike out, Julio Rodriguez would pop out, and Ty France would ground out and the Mariners fall 4-3

Game 4 was over before the first inning was over . Marco Gonzalez was awful giving up 7 hits , 6 runs, and 2 home runs in the first inning and he was pulled before the inning was over with the Mariners in a 6-0 hole. They would try to claw back in with a 2 run RBI single by Julio in the 2nd. Then in the 4th Julio and Ty France would both get RBI singles to make it 6-4. But the bats would go silent after that. Zunino would add a solo shot in the 7th and the Mariners fall 7-4 and drop the series 3 games to 1


Next up the (1-3) Mariners welcome in the (3-0) Angels to town for 3 game set.

[countryboy]

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Cardinals sweep Reds at Great American Ballpark

The Cardinals (32-22) bounced back after being embarrassed by the Dodgers to sweep a 4 game series from the Reds in Cincinnati to begin the final full week in May. The sweep now extends the Cardinals lead to 2 games over the Cubs.

The Cardinals got great pitching, both starters and relief, and swung hot bats during the series. Paul Goldschmidt was the brightest star as he extended his hitting streak to 17 games during the series. Miles Mikolas improved to a perfect 8-0 and Ryan Helsley now leads the National League with 18 saves.

The Cardinals will stay in Ohio as they travel north to Cleveland to face the Guardians for a 3 game weekend series.

[UTAllTheWay]

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Started a franchise with the Rays. Got two months into the season and then I get a notification on my screen that says the Astros traded Framber Valdez to the Orioles for Adley Rutschman. Being an Astros fan, this totally broke the experience for me.

I’m going to start another one and set up 30 Team Control.

[Jeffrey Smith]

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Anyone getting the fan cam within franchise. I’ve played a few conquest games and get the fan cam every game but have yet to see it in any franchise game I’ve played.


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[jcar0725]

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Anyone getting the fan cam within franchise. I’ve played a few conquest games and get the fan cam every game but have yet to see it in any franchise game I’ve played.


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I got one so far, in the first week of franchise. Pretty cool.

[LegendKillerOne]

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Anyone getting the fan cam within franchise. I’ve played a few conquest games and get the fan cam every game but have yet to see it in any franchise game I’ve played.


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I get it about once a game it seems yes

[LegendKillerOne]

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Mariners get back on track sweeping Angels in a wild series

The Mariners (1-3) welcomed in the Angels (3-0) for a 3 game set to close out the opening home stand. This was a wild series with every game going back and forth.

The first game of the set looked like it would be a Seattle blow out as they put up 6 runs in the third inning with 4 home runs (Julio, Raleigh (3), Haggerty and Pollock) but that was not to be the case as George Kirby and the pen would make it interesting. The Angels would slowly crawl back with 2 in the 4th, 1 in the 5th, 1 in the 7th and 1 in the 8th. Down 7-5 in the 9th they would load the bases after a big throwing error by Kolten Wong open the door with 2 outs and Ohtani up and Paul Sewald was lucky enough to get him to ground to second for the 7-5 Mariner win

The second game was once again a wild one that went back and forth. The Mariners would get another home run from Julio his second on the year another home run from Raleigh who already has 4 now and one from AJ Pollock his second on the year The Angels however got to Luis Castillo as well who has not been sharp in two starts. They would knock him around for 4 runs over 5 innings and after 7 innings the mariners lead 5-4. However Taylor Ward would hit a 3 run homer in the 8th to give the Angels the lead 7-5. The Mariners would answer in the bottom of the 8th with a 2 run single by Cooper Hummel to tie it and send it to extra innings. In the bottom of the 10th Kolten Wong would hit an RBI double for the walk off 8-7 Mariner Win

The final game of the series followed the first two just about. Seattle would go up 2-0 early on a home by Ty France and Tommy la Stella. But the Angels would battle back with rbi doubles from Ohtani and Trout and a 2 run home run from Jake Lamb and had a 5-3 lead going into the 8th. After Jose Quijada loaded the bases on a hit and 2 walks the Angels brought in Matt Moore who on a 2-2 pitch served up a grand slam to AJ Pollock his third home run on the early season to give the M's a 7-5 lead. With Sewald on to close it out Ohtani would lace an RBi double to make it 7-6 and with the tying run on third Jake Lamb would rock a ball down the right field line that Teosacar Hernandez barely got to and the Mariners held on for a 7-6 win.


The Mariners improved to (4-3) on the season while the Angels fell to (3-3)

Next up we finally get a day off before heading on the road to face the Guardians (3-4) for the second time. Two weeks in to the season and we will be done with the Guardians this season.

AL WEST
Mariners 4-3
Astros 4-4
Angels 3-3
A's 3-3
Rangers 2-4