Wakamatsu keeping the faith

The Mariners have had some tough losses this season --- the back-to-back last at-bat defeats in Texas come readily to mind. Hard to imagine a worse one than this, though, blowing a three-run lead largely due to self-inflicted wounds in the ninth inning. But Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu was resolute afterward that this one won't break his team. "These guys have done an awful lot this year,'' he said. "We've went through touch stretches this year and the point is we are going to stay strong and stay together and get back on the horse. We've got Felix (Hernandez) going tomorrow, We talk about belief systems and we have to maintain that.'' Closer David Aardsma said he was "over pitching'' trying to do too much in the ninth inning, when he blew his second save opportunity of the season allowing five runs on four hits though just three earned thanks to two errors by Jose Lopez, who quickly went from hero to goat after having earlier pla...