Mariners Greatest Hits: Second Baseman Robinson Cano

April 21st, 2016

Despite two sports hernias, Cano began to prove what he’s capable of in a Mariners uniform in 2015. It turned out that his 2nd half production of 15 home runs and 43 RBIs all while batting .331 was just an appetizer to the entree that was all of 2016.

Cano started off the 16′ season with all-star quality. His eight home runs tied with only Josh Donaldson for the most in the American League and his 24 RBIs led the AL outright ahead of Donaldson’s 20.

In arguably his best game in that first month of this past year, Cano would not only have a powerful offensive outing, but he would also come up clutch to keep the Mariners on their win streak.

The first half of Cano’s day was fairly unspectacular. He would single in the 1st, lineout in the 3rd and then draw a walk in the 4th. The single and the walk would help pad his stats for the day, but his most meaningful hit was yet to come.

In the 6th, Cano began to heat up as he blasted a double off the leftfield wall bringing in Nori Aoki for his first RBI and first extra-base hit of the game. In terms of the score, Cano was sending home the Mariners 6th runner and extended the lead to 6-3.

In the later half of the ballgame, things started to get away from Cano and the Mariners. First, Cano grounded into a double play in the top half of the 8th, and then in the bottom of the frame, the opposing Cleveland Indians tied the game off a Mike Napoli two-run shot.

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The game would head to extra innings.

It didn’t take much time into free baseball for the Mariners to right the ship and retake the lead. The Mariners benefitted from the unlikely wild play of the Indians closer, Cody Allen, putting two men on board from his walks.

That set up an opportunity for Cano to put the Mariners on top, and boy, did he do that in a big way. On the very first pitch he saw from Allen, Cano obliterated the dead-center fastball to the farthest part of the outfield and made it disappear in the trees behind the centerfield wall.

The win extended the Mariners win streak to three games and Cano’s big day was more of the same from the red-hot star.

That’s a wrap on the best from Cano in his early exhibition in a Mariners uniform. With seven years left on his contract, this list will most assuredly have to be redone when his career is over, but we’ve got plenty of time to bask in his glory until then.

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