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- Updated: June 5, 2016
ARLINGTON — The Mariners have been one of baseball’s best comeback teams this season, but that’s not a habit manager Scott Servais wants to rely on. And it’s certainly a bigger challenge when your team gives up 16 runs in the first inning as the Mariners have done over their past four games.
That trend spelled trouble again Saturday in a 10-4 loss to the Rangers as starter Nathan Karns allowed three runs in the first and never got on track as the Mariners dropped two games back in the American League West with their second straight loss at Globe Life Park.
“The first-inning woes, a little bit,” Servais said. “You look up and you’re down right out of the chute. We’ll get it turned around, it’s just a frustrating stretch we’re in right now.”
Karns gave up four hits in the first, but they included a bloop RBI hit by Rougned Odor and a two-run double by Ryan Rua that just snuck over the third-base bag.
“It was just a tough inning,” said Karns, who saw his five-game win streak snapped. “I thought I was making quality pitches, you can’t do anything about Odor’s up-and-in bloop and the tight-rope double down the line. It’s just one of those things that’s tough to kind of get through, but …
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