Mariners fall to Marlins after Logan Gilbert leaves with arm injury

Adam Jude, The Seattle Times on Apr 26, 2025

Published in Baseball

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SEATTLE — For an April evening in Seattle, this was about as good as it gets for a baseball scene. Dare we say, the setup was just about perfect.

The roof was open at T-Mobile Park on Friday, and a 67-degree sunshine greeted the red-hot Seattle Mariners in their return home from a feel-good, 10-day East Coast road trip.

What could go wrong on a night like this?

Just about everything, it turned out.

Logan Gilbert, the Mariners ace, exited the game after three innings with an arm injury, an ominous turn of events for the Mariners in their eventual 8-4 loss to the Miami Marlins in their series opener Friday night.

Gilbert, as durable as any pitcher in baseball the past four seasons, had thrown 29 pitches over three flawless innings, helping the Mariners take a 1-0 lead after a Dylan Moore homer.

But the mood in the ballpark shifted quickly in the top of the fourth inning when Casey Lawrence, the Mariners’ journeyman reliever, took the mound in Gilbert’s place. No explanation was immediately given.

About 20 minutes later, the Mariners provided an official update on Gilbert: right forearm tightness.

No other details were immediately given. Gilbert would likely have medical imaging done soon.

Lawrence, pressed into action, pitched well under the circumstances.

The Marlins scored six runs in the fifth inning to take a 6-1 lead, but all of those runs were unearned after Moore misplayed a slow groundball at second base with two outs in the inning.

Jorge Polanco hit a three-run homer off Miami’s Cal Quantrill in the sixth to pull the Mariners within 6-4. It was Polanco’s fifth homer of the season.

The Marlins stretched their lead to 8-4 in the eighth inning when rookie Agustin Ramirez hit a two-run blast to center field off Lawrence. It was Ramirez’s first MLB homer.

The Mariners arrive back in Seattle around 10 p.m. Thursday after a cross-country flight from Boston, following their first series victory at Fenway Park since 2014.

That capped a 6-3 road trip through Cincinnati, Toronto and Boston that pushed the Mariners into a tie atop the AL West.