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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Swats three-run homer

  3D ago • By RotoWire

  Garver went 3-for-5 with a three-run homer in Sunday's win over the Rangers. Garver clobbered the first pitch he saw from Andrew Heaney and sent it over the wall in center field for a three-run blast. He's appeared in only five games this month and Sunday was his first appearance in a full week. Over his last three games, Garver's racked up six hits and nine RBI and is one RBI shy of reaching 50 RBI in consecutive seasons for the first time in his career.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Four-RBI breakout Wednesday

  14D ago • By RotoWire

  Garver went 2-for-5 with a two-run double, an RBI single, a run-scoring groundout and a run in a win over the Athletics on Wednesday. Garver had a hand in each of the Mariners' first three runs, driving in Victor Robles and Randy Arozarena with a second-inning double before pushing Robles across again in the third via a timely single. The veteran accounted for Seattle's 15th run of the night hours later in the eighth inning with an RBI groundout, closing the book on his first four-RBI tally in exactly a calendar year and a day. Garver is still limping along with co-career-worst .167 average, but he's managed to record 44 RBI thanks in part to having knocked 29 of his 56 hits for extra bases.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Rare offensive success Friday

  19D ago • By RotoWire

  Garver went 2-for-5 with a two-run double in a win over the Angels on Friday. Drawing a second consecutive start for the first time since Aug. 9-10, Garver delivered his first multi-hit effort since July 26. In the process, the veteran snapped a 14-game RBI drought with his double, which plated Jorge Polanco and Justin Turner as part of a five-run first inning for the Mariners. Garver has now reached the 40-RBI threshold for the season and has impressively knocked 28 of his 54 hits for extra bases, but the second-highest strikeout rate of his career (31.5 percent) and a .215 BABIP have led to an abysmal .166/.286/.326 slash line.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Successful as pinch hitter Thursday

  08/09/2024 • By RotoWire

  Garver entered Thursday's win over the Tigers as a pinch hitter in the eighth inning and singled in his one plate appearance. Garver was on the bench to start the night for the third time in the last four games, but he delivered when called upon in the eighth. The struggling veteran now has hits in back-to-back games, but the 0-for-19 stretch that immediately preceded that pair of contests is a microcosm of a nightmarish debut campaign in Seattle that sees him carrying a .170 average and career-low .623 OPS through 94 games.

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• Mariners' Mitch Garver: Retreating to bench Sunday

  08/04/2024 • By RotoWire

  Garver is out of the lineup for Sunday's game against the Phillies. After going 0-for-16 over a stretch of four starts from July 13 through July 22, Garver went 3-for-3 with two walks July 26 against the White Sox, only to endure another 0-for-16 showing over a four-game stretch. Garver had started in three of the Mariners' previous four games, but his ongoing slump will likely begin to cost him more playing time.

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