The Seattle Mariners jumped all over Texas Rangers starter Kevin Millwood on Monday night as the Mariners put up seven quick runs and went onto beat the Rangers 7-3.  You have to like seeing the Mariners put up seven runs in the first three innings of the game.  When you score runs like that at the beginning of the game you really put the other team in a hole and make them get into their bullpen early in the game.

Richie Sexson and Wladimir Balentien both hit home runs in the game for the Mariners.  Sexson had  solo shot and Balentien had a three run shot.  Both home runs came in the third inning when the Mariners scored four runs.

Balentien finished the game with three RBI while Raul Ibanez had two RBI.  Jose Lopez and Sexson both had one RBI in the game.

Mariners starting pitcher Jarrod Washburn finally picked up a win to improve his record to 2-4 on the season.  Washburn threw six innings of four hit ball.  He did give up three runs but pitched a lot better then he has been lately.  Washburn had to leave the game in the top of the seventh inning when he felt some tightness in his right calf.

Sean Green and J.J. Putz pitched the final three innings to finish off the Rangers.  They did not allow a run and pitched pretty good.

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Ichiro Suzuki stole third base and then scored on a error by Casey Blake in the ninth inning to tie the game for the Mariners an send it to extra inning but the Mariners still lost the game 3-2 in 11 innings.  It was nice to see the Mariners come back in the ninth inning, but everytime they did score, it seemed the Indians were right there to score again in the bottom of the inning.

When the game went into extra innings, Richie Sexson hit a solo home run in the tenth inning but the Indians answered right back with a run when J.J. Putz walked in a run.  The Indians the scored again in the eleventh inning off of Mark Lowe to win the game.  Lowe took the loss for the Mariners and is now 1-2 on the season.

Tough loss for the Mariners, but I will give them credit for battling back.

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The Seattle Mariners whipped up on the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday night by the score of 7-1.  The Mariners blew it open in the 8th inning when Jamie Burke hit a three run homerun to extend the lead to six runs.

Adrian Beltre also had a homerun for the Mariners as he went deep in the 5th inning.  Ichiro, Jose Lopez, Richie Sexson, and Jose Vidro all chipped in with one RBI each.

Jarrod Washburn pitched seven innings of six hit ball and only allowed one earned run while picking up his first win of the season.  Washburn controlled the Rays bats all night long in the victory.

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Erik Bedard picked up his first victory with the Seattle Mariners as they beat the Tampa Bay Rays by the score of 6-5.  The Mariners record is now at 3-5 and they hope to get back to .500 after the Rays series.

Bedard pitched six innings and allowed five hits, five run (three were earned), walked four, and struckout five batters.  Bedard knows that he needs to have better control of the ball and not walk so many batters, so I expect him to really work on that and have a good performance during his next start.

Ryan Rowland-Smith picked up the save for the Mariners and it was his first save of the season.

Richie Sexson led the Mariners with three RBI followed by Brad Wilkerson who had two RBI.  Jose Lopez was right behind them with one RBI.

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