Seattle Mariners Drop 3-Game Series, Lose 10-2 to Milwaukee Brewers

The Brewers pulled away for good in the fourth inning. A fielding error committed by shortstop J.P. Crawford put the lead-off hitter, Isaac Collins, on base. It snowballed from there.

Collins moved to second on a wild pitch. Two at-bats later, Anthony Seigler was hit by a pitch to give Milwaukee two runners on with two outs.

Joey Ortiz, Brice Turang and William Contreras rattled off three consecutive run-scoring hits to pull the Brewers in front 5-2.

Milwaukee scored five more runs from the fifth-through-seventh innings for the eventual final of 10-2.

Castillo was pulled after the fifth inning. He finished with seven strikeouts, one hit batter and six runs (three earned) on 10 hits in five innings pitched.

"I think errors are part of the game, even the hit-by-pitch," Castillo said in a postgame interview via interpreter Freddy Llanos. "Obviously wasn't by intention. ... I think, especially with this team, you try to do your best to just focus and walk in. But a team like this, that does like to make contact, I felt like every ball that they hit went right to a spot where there was no players there. You just got to give credit to them."

Wilson and several Mariners players highlighted the Brewers' aggressive approach at the plate throughout the series. The M's also mentioned they could use the high ground ball rate against their opponents.

Crawford was tested with several grounders at shortstop Wednesday. He was unable to cleanly field or outright missed multiple balls hit his way.

"He has played so well for us at short and always plays so well for us there," Wilson said. "Couple balls today that were hit hard, and some really tough chances. They found some holes, and that's kind of the way it was today. ... Today was just a frustrating day all-around, I think. And I think we're all kind of frustrated at this point. Another reason why we move forward."

Seattle finished its six-game homestand 3-3 and will now head on the road for a seven-game road trip, beginning with the first of a four-game series against the Los Angeles Angels at 6:38 p.m. PT on Thursday at Angel Stadium. Logan Evans will start for the Mariners and Yusei Kikuchi will start for the Angels.