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- Updated: October 1, 2016
SEATTLE — Taijuan Walker was able to do something Friday night that he struggled with in the middle of the season: he kept his team in the game when he didn’t have his best stuff.
“It was just one of those weird starts where [during] one hitter everything was locked in, the next hitter it was all over the place,” Walker said. “But [I] just kept fighting.”
The right-hander’s outing looked good on paper at first glance. He allowed one run on just two hits over six innings to earn the win in the Mariners’ 5-1 victory over the A’s Friday. He also walked a season-high five batters, and those long at-bats took a toll on his pitch count. He threw 113 pitches.
“That’s why I’m kind of frustrated,” Walker said of the free passes. “Some of those walks are 0-2 walks too, and I got ahead of the guys and just couldn’t put them away. They did a good job fouling pitches off, some good pitches, and I felt like …
