Today at 3:40 p.m. ET, the San Diego Padres (29-41) and Seattle Mariners (36-34) continue their interleague series live from Safeco Field in Seattle. The game can be live streamed here. San Diego fans can hear all of the action on XPRS 1090 while Seattle fans can do the same on 710 ESPN.
San Diego closes out an eight-game road trip it is 1-6 on while Seattle finishes up an eight-game homestand that it is 2-6 on thus far. The Mariners defeated the Padres 5-1 on Tuesday and the teams will finish up this leg of the home-and-home before the series shifts to Petco Park in San Diego for two more games.
San Diego and the baseball world is still dealing with the loss of Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn, who spent 20 years with the Padres and passed away Monday to cancer.
Eric Stults (2-8, 5.79 ERA) toes the rubber for the Padres while the Mariners counter with rookie Roenis Elias, who is 5-5 with a 4.13 ERA.
Stults has a 9.45 ERA through his last three starts and is coming off of a game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Thursday where he gave up four runs and eight hits in five innings.
"[Stults] gave us an opportunity in the middle part of the game to flip the momentum to our side," Padres manager Bud Black said via MLB.com. "He did his part for the time he was out there."
Elias is coming off of his shortest outing of the season in which he gave up six runs on six hits and three walks against the New York Yankees Thursday while lasting just 3.1 innings.
"He didn't have command of his pitches," Mariners manager Lloyd McClendon said via MLB.com. "His changeup was cutting, his fastball was erratic, and he left some breaking balls up. It just wasn't his night. It happens sometimes."
Seattle second baseman Robinson Cano is second in the American League with a .327 batting average and has three homers and 37 RBI thus far this season. Third baseman Kyle Seager leads the Mariners with 10 homers and 45 RBI on the campaign up to this point.
San Diego outfielder Seth Smith paces the team with a .286 batting average and is in a three-way tie for the team lead with six homers while Jedd Gyorko paces the Padres with 24 RBI.
The Padres and Mariners close out the Washington portion of their home-and-home series before shifting over to California when they take the field this afternoon in Seattle.
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