Mariners vs Brewers: Seattle Rebounds From 22-0 Loss, 7-5

Mariners vs Brewers on Wednesday was a different sport from Mariners vs Brewers on Tuesday. The Associated Press reported the Seattle Mariners beat the Milwaukee Brewers 7-5 at American Family Field after a 22-0 loss that matched the largest shutout in baseball's modern era. Dominic Canzone, Josh Naylor, and Taylor Ward each drove in two runs. Seattle never trailed. The hangover lasted one night.

Milwaukee is the best team in the majors, AP said. The Brewers had just hung a historic zero on Seattle. Then Dustin May, acquired from St. Louis at the trade deadline, walked into the second game of the series and gave up seven runs in the first two innings. That is the Mariners vs Brewers plot. One lineup got embarrassed. The same lineup jumped the next starter before the third inning.

How the Mariners beat the Brewers 7-5

AP's sequence is simple. Brendan Donovan and Randy Arozarena singled to start the game. Canzone doubled them home. Ward drove in two more with a two-out single. In the second, Julio Rodríguez hit a sacrifice fly and Naylor added a two-run single to make it 7-0. Naylor finished 3-for-5. May fell to 6-8. AP noted he had allowed a total of two runs in his two previous starts since the deadline deal. The third start was not like the first two.

Logan Gilbert (10-7) struck out five and allowed three runs in five innings. He left after walking the first two batters in the sixth. Milwaukee loaded the bases with nobody out in that inning and scored only on a Joey Ortiz sacrifice fly. Jose A. Ferrer struck out Christian Yelich to leave two on in the seventh. Ortiz's RBI single in the eighth cut the lead to 7-4 with runners on the corners and nobody out. Cooper Pratt grounded into a double play. Brice Turang grounded out. Andrés Muñoz worked a perfect ninth for his 23rd save in 30 chances.

Ortiz still had a night. AP said he hit a two-run homer in the second and matched a career high with four RBIs. The Brewers had traffic in the sixth, seventh, and eighth. They could not finish the comeback. Seattle's 7-0 hole for Milwaukee became a 7-5 loss.

The 22-0 loss the Mariners were answering

Tuesday's 22-0 defeat was not a normal bad night. AP said it matched the largest shutout in the modern era, and it came against the team sitting on top of the standings. That kind of score follows a club into the next batting practice. Wednesday's answer was to score seven times in two innings and never give the lead back. The Mariners vs Brewers series did not become even. It did become a series again.

Seattle improved to 4-4 on a nine-game trip that concludes Thursday, AP reported. That is a split-or-better road swing after a historic beating in the middle of it. The offense that looked helpless for nine innings on Tuesday put seven on the board before Milwaukee's starter could get settled.

What comes next in Mariners vs Brewers

The series finale is Thursday. George Kirby (8-9, 3.89 ERA) starts for Seattle. Robert Gasser (3-5, 4.54) starts for Milwaukee, per AP. One win does not wash 22-0 out of the season file. It does tell you the Mariners showed up the next day, which is the only acceptable response to a modern-era matching shutout.

Mariners vs Brewers will be remembered this week for the blowout first. The 7-5 rebound is the game that decides whether that blowout was a one-off or a diagnosis. Wednesday said one-off. Thursday gets the last word in Milwaukee.