Brandon Maurer News

Entering Friday night's game, Joe Saunders had an ERA of 5.64, Aaron Harang was at 8.58 and rookie Brandon Maurer was at 6.80. In other words, aside from ace Felix Hernandez and emerging star Hisashi Iwakuma, Seattle's starting pitchers have been struggling.

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Mariners manager Eric Wedge talks to Jesus Montero on the field in Cleveland before Sunday's game, going over a play from the night before that resulted in a Seattle loss when the catcher took his foot off home plate.

Associated Press Pitching coach Carl Willis talks with pitcher Brandon Maurer as teammates stand by in the second inning of Wednesday's loss.

C.J. Wilson tossed eight terrific innings and the Angels again broke out the bats in an easy 7-1 victory over the Mariners.

The last thing you want to do as a baseball team is overreact to a bad stretch. But the Mariners have reached a point where a few moves are necessary not just as a knee-jerk way to shake things up in the middle of a slump, but as a realistic means to improve the team moving forward.

Well, it was enjoyable to make fun of the Angels there for a second, and I guess, considering the standings, it still is.

The Seattle Mariners don't play the Cleveland Indians again until July 22nd. After this weekend, that might be too soon.

Brandon Maurer had not received a flood of phone calls, but he expects that to happen sometime Tuesday when people realize he will be pitching for the Seattle Mariners in Anaheim, Calif., on Wednesday against the Los Angeles Angels.

With an off-day on Monday, the Angels host the Mariners in a short two game set that starts Tuesday and then they head to Kansas City to play the Royals to finish the week.

After taking two of three from the Yankees in the Bronx, the Mariners head to Cleveland for four games Friday to Monday against the Indians.

To hear Raul Ibanez tell it, the Seattle Mariners are getting the hang of these nailbiter-type contests they keep finding ways to stay in.

It's probably too early to make that claim, but in his last three outings -- coming against Kansas City, Oakland and Detroit -- the righty has gone 3-0 and compiled a 1.45 ERA.

The A's felt plenty of satisfaction in wiping away a five-game losing streak by way of a 4-3 win over the Mariners at Safeco Field to climb back to .500 on Saturday evening.

While the Seattle Mariners have played well in any park of late, the Oakland Athletics continue to struggle on the road.

MLB Team Report - Seattle Mariners - INSIDE PITCH The Mariners are hoping that back-to-back solid outings from veteran Aaron Harang and some extended time between starts for rookie Brandon Maurer will help add some semblance of depth to the starting rotation.

Allow me to expand on a theory I introduced in this space roughly a week ago in my post on three ways the Mariners could immediately improve .

For two starts, Brandon Maurer looked like a rookie who was in way over his head.

One pitcher in particular that manager Eric Wedge is hoping will benefit from a long layoff is rookie Brandon Maurer.

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