http://www.marinershomeplate.com A blog about Seattle Mariners Baseball Thu, 20 Nov 2008 01:59:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Seattle Mariners have hired Don Wakamatsu as their next manger. Wakamatsu was a coach for the Oakland Athletics last year and is very familar with the Western Division. He also spent four seasons as the bench coach for Buck Showalter down in Arlington. Wakamatsu is the first Asian-American manager in ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/don-wakamatsu-named-seattle-mariners-manager/ The dissappointing season for the Seattle Mariners got worse on Wednesday night as they were beaten by the Los Angeles Angels. The Angels beat the Mariners by the score of 6-5 and gave the M's their 100th loss of the 2008 season. Yeah, things have been that bad this year. Felix ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/mariners-lose-for-the-100th-time/ The Seattle Mariners played the Los Angeles Angels togh on Monday night but they fell just short as they lost the game by the score of 2-1. The Mariners offense was only able to come up with five hits compared to the Angels ten hits, and they also committed one ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/mariners-lose-a-close-one-to-the-angels/ The Seattle Mariners have packed things in and are ready for the 2008 season to be over it appears. They were hammered, beaten, and crushed by the Kansas City Royals on Thursday afternoon by the score of 12-0. Yeah, you read that right... The M's have now lost eight straight ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/another-tough-game-for-the-mariners-against-the-royals/ Eh, what a terrible game for the Seattle Mariners on Monday night as they were shut out by the Kansas City Royals 3-0. That is not the way the M's wanted to kick off their series down in Kansas City that is for sure. Carlos Silva pitched 5 1/3 innings while ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/mariners-shut-out-by-the-royals/ The Seattle Mariners held off the Texas Rangers by the score of 8-7 on Wednesday afternoon. The Mariners gave up four home runs to the Ranagers but answered back with plenty of rbi singles to somehow win the game. The two teams split the short two game series. Mariners starting pitcher ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/mariners-hold-off-the-rangers-8-7-for-the-win/ What's up Mariners fans? I'm here filling in for Ryan and have today's game recap. The Mariners didn't finish up the three games series against the Texas Rangers like they were hoping as they were shutout 1-0 on Wednesday afternoon. With the one run loss, the Mariners dropped two out ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/mariners-shut-out-down-in-texas-1-0/ Silva to DL after league-leading 14th loss In the past few days in Mariner Land, we saw a major league record tying four wild-pitches in one inning by R.A. Dickey, the shaky debut of Ryan Feierabend, and three-game sweep at the hands of the Minnesota Twins.  Raul Ibanez continues to give us something ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/recent-ms-news-twins-series-recap/ No Deal Sports Illustrated Jon Heyman reported that time has expired this afternoon on both waiver claims for Raul Ibanez and Jarrod Washburn. The Tigers reportedly won the claim on Ibanez, and the Twins won the claim on Washburn.  No deal could be worked out for either player before the deadline. Mariner fans ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/si-reports-ibanez-washburn-deadline-passes-with-no-deal/ Multiple outlets are reporting that both outfielder Raul Ibanez and pitcher Jarrod Washburn have been claimed on waivers during their waiver periods.  The teams that claim them have to work out a deal with Seattle by a deadline depending on the exact time they made the claim.  Washburn seems to ... http://www.marinershomeplate.com/washburn-ibanez-claimed-on-waivers-but-by-who/