Miguel Cairo laid down a beautiful squeeze bunt in the top of the 10th inning and the Seattle Mariners went on to defeat the Toronto Blue Jays by the score of 3-2 in 10 innings.  Willie Bloomquist scored on the squeeze play from third base to score the winning run.

Besided the squeeze play in the 10th inning, the other two Mariners runs came in the first inning.  Jose Vidro connected on a two run home run for the Mariners first two runs.  From the second through the ninth innings however, the M’s had a terrible time getting any rallies going as they couldn’t push across any runs.

Mariners starting pitcher Jarrod Washburn tossed the first six innings of the game while he gave up five hits and one run.  Washburn pitched a pretty good game but did walk three batters.  Mark Lowe gave up one run without recording an out.  Arthur Rhodes and Miguel Batista were finaly able to get the Mariners out of the seventh inning.  R.A. Dickey then tossed the next two innings without having any damage done.  Dickey actually ended up picking up the win and is now 1-1 on the season.

Onto the 10th inning that seen a dropped ball by Wladimir Balentien, and then the Blue Jays twice having the bases loaded but not scoring one run.  J.J. Putz was able to get a double play with zero outs in the inning and then got a fly ball off the bat of David Eckstein to end the game stranding all three runners on base.

A win is a win and the Mariners will take it anyway they can get one at this point in the season.  Even if it is ugly lol.

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The Seattle Mariners got into a big hole early in the game and then went on to lose to the Detroit Tigers by the score of 9-2 on Thursday afternoon.  It definately was not the way the Mariners wasnted to end the series as they were swept in the three game series and now have to goto New York and take on the Yankees in a weekend series.

Miguel Batista only lasted three inning as he gave up seven hits and five runs.  Batista is now sporting a 6.47 era on the season.  R.A. Dickey pitched two innings of relief after Batista exited and he gave up two runs.  Following Batista, Sean Green came in for an inning and also gave up two runs.  Finally Brandon Morrow and J.J. Putz were able to pitch the final two innings without giving up a run.

Raul Ibanez had the only rbi for the Mariners as he had a rbi single in the third inning that scored Yuniesky Betancourt.  Ibanez also grounded into a double play in the fifth inning that scored the second run for the Mariners.  No rbi was given on the play since he grounded into the DP however.

The Mariners will now go into New York City hurting after being swept by the Tigers.  Can they turn things around in the Bronx? I’m going to say no as they will only win game out of three against the Yankees.

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The Seattle Mariners took a big win over the Los Angeles Angels on Sunday 4-2 behind the great pitching of Miguel Batista putting them at 10-10 for the year.  The Mariners held the Angels to a scoreless game until the bottom of the ninth when the Angels started to rally but didn’t have quite enough to take home the win. 

Batista came onto the mound to open the game and stayed there for seven and two thirds innings and even though he gave up 8 hits, no Angels’ runners were able to reach home plate.  Ryan Rowland-Smith was brought it to finish off the night and was able to secure his 2nd save of the season.

Seattle was swinging hard with Richie Sexton driving a home run putting him at five the season and a pair of RBIs as well. Ichiro Suzuki and Jose Lopez each picked up RBIs as well. 

Coming off a 4 game winning streak do you think that the Seattle Mariners have what it takes to go up against the Balitmore Orioles ranked number 2 in the American League East?  I think the Mariners will do really well against the Orioles.

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The Seattle Mariners finally figured out the Kansas City Royals pitching staff as they scored 11 runs as they beat the Royals 11-6 on Tuesday night.  After having a complete game thrown at them on Monday, the Mariners came out swinging early and often.

Jose Lopez had four RBI for the Mariners, and three of them came on sacrafice flies.  Lopez is just the 12th player in major league history to hit three sacrafice flies in a game.  Yuniesky Betancourt tallied three RBI, Kenji Johjima had two RBI, while Raul Ibanez and Willie Bloomquist chipped in with one RBI each.

Starting pitcher Miguel Batista struggled for the Mariners but he did pick up the win after pitching five innings and allowing seven hits and four earned runs.  Ryan Rowland-Smith also had some trouble as he had two earned runs in only one inning of action.

The pitching staff is really lucky that the offense scored 11 runs, or the Mariners would have probably lost this game the way the pitchers pitched.

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The Seattle Mariners got shutout by the Tampa Bay Rays 7-0 in Thursdays ballgame.  The Mariners only had three hits in the ballgame, and only two of those were in the first eight innings of the game.  You can’t win when you only hit the ball three times!

There isn’t much to talk about the offense, other then they sucked it up against Edwin Jackson who dominated them for eight innings.

On the pitching side of things, Miguel Batista pitched six innings and gave up eight hits and four earned runs as he picked up the loss.  Batista is now 0-2 on the season.  He better turn it around in a hurry!

Eric O’Flaherty only got one out, and gave up one hit and three earned runs.  Terrible job by Batista and O’Flaherty on the game.

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