Servais after Mariners hit 3 HRs off Bauer: 'Our guys weren't trying'

Seattle Mariners manager Scott Servais seems a little fed up with Trevor Bauer's antics.

The Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher seemingly suggested Monday he wasn't trying late in his Cactus League outing against Seattle. After four solid innings, the Mariners tagged him for three home runs in the fifth.

"I was throwing pitches. It really wasn't any thought of sequencing or whatever," Bauer said, according to Jorge Castillo of the Los Angeles Times.

Those comments made their way back to Servais, who threw some playful jabs at the often prickly pitcher.

"Bauer was on top of his game early, and I just want everybody to know our guys weren't trying in the first four innings," Servais said Tuesday, according to Ryan Divish of the Seattle Times. "We decided to try in the fifth inning last night and it worked out. ... I know he had said maybe he wasn't (trying) in the fifth, but our guys were trying in the fifth, we just didn't take it seriously in the first three-to-four innings."

Servais then took a shot at Bauer for pitching with only one eye open earlier this spring by joking his hitters did the same thing Monday.

"Our guys were hitting with one eye shut for the first four innings and trying to breathe through our eyelids, as we're focusing on different things that will help us throughout the year," Servais quipped.

Bauer and Servais' budding rivalry will have to be put on hold until the regular season as their teams won't meet until April 19 in Seattle.