The Mariners let Adrian Gonzalez beat them

I have 15 minutes before my plane to Seattle boards, so I'm going to make this quick. A wise and humble man noted early today just how good Adrian Gonzalez is.That's no secret to the Mariners, of course. In that weak Padres' lineup, he leaps out. Don Wakamatsu said the Mariners game plan was to not let Gonzalez beat them -- to basically pitch around him. And then he noted sadly that they let him beat them. Gonzalez was 4-for-4, including an RBI single in the first, a game-tying homer in the sixth (despite a valiant effort by Franklin Gutierrez to snare it over the wall), and a two-out double in the 10th that prceded Kevin "You Can't Spell His Name Without 2 K's" Kouzmanoff's game-winning single off the man Ryan Divish of the Tacoma News-Tribune has likened, in haircut, to George Jefferson, Miguel Batista. "It's easier said than done sometimes," Wakamatsu said of attempting to pitch around Gonzalez. "When I was in Texas, we went ...