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Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics: 09/06 game thread
September 06, 2009 by
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Ichiro needs one more hit to reach 2,000 for his career. He usually gets those milestone hits right away in games. Let's see if that stays true today.
Kenji Johjima catching for third time in four days for Mariners
September 06, 2009 by
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Never fails, does it? Write about a guy one day not catching as much as he used to, the next thing you know, he's getting the bulk of the assignments. That's what the deal is right now with Kenji Johjima. And no, it's not a fluke. In fact, you can expect to see it the...
Athletics 9, Mariners 5: Seattle fails to build on, or hold, early three-run lead
September 05, 2009 by
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This game sure didn't finish the way it began for the Mariners. But that's what lousy pitching and an anemic offense will do to you and the M's had both tonight after the second inning.
Luke French now has a 6.38 ERA since joining the Mariners from Detroit at the July 31...
Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics: 09/05 game thread
September 05, 2009 by
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Seattle is already a season-high eight games over .500 and tries to make it nine tonight. But this is the biggest pitching test they'll face this series. Brett Anderson looks like the real deal.
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Ken Griffey Jr. still out of lineup with stiff, swollen knee
September 05, 2009 by
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Getting the regular Mariners DH into the lineup is becoming a challenge these final weeks of the 2009 season. Ken Griffey Jr. was proclaimed healthy and ready to go after an MRI earlier this week. But after one game here in the series opener, his knee has now been too swollen to go...
Mariners 6, Athletics 3: Ryan Rowland-Smith rides early lead to victory
September 04, 2009 by
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Ryan Rowland-Smith didn't get to finish what he started after all. He'd thrown 106 pitches in eight innings to match his career high and that was it. So, manager Don Wakamatsu, knowing David Aardsma had closed three of the last four contests, went instead to Mark Lowe and got...
Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics: 09/04 game thread
September 04, 2009 by
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Ryan Rowland-Smith tries to continue his string of impressive outings against Class AAA call-up Clayton Mortensen, who got rocked by the Royals his first and only major league outing, giving him the interesting line of 0-1, 18.00.
Let's play a game called Guess the Real Attendance...
Kenji Johjima battles on despite diminished playing time
September 04, 2009 by
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Just some quick news here that Ken Griffey Jr. has been scratched from tonight's game with soreness in his knee. Griffey had missed most of the past week with knee soreness, then played last night and is now out again. They gave him a shot at being in there depending on what he...
The legend of Franklin Gutierrez should be forming right now
September 04, 2009 by
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Quick question for all of you still arguing a meaningless bunt strategy point from last night: which of the three guys in the photo above would you pick to start a brand new team with? If your answer was the guy on the left, Bill Hall, then you misunderstood the question, I didn&...
Mariners 7, Athletics 4: Home runs power Seattle to victory
September 03, 2009 by
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Not everyday do we see the Mariners hit three home runs before the game is even four innings old. But that's what Franklin Gutierrez, Bill Hall and Kenji Johjima did tonight in a 7-4 win by the Mariners over the Oakland Athletics.
And just to show the M's haven't forgotten...
Seattle Mariners at Oakland Athletics: 09/03 game thread
September 03, 2009 by
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Ichiro just led the game off with a single, so it's now six hits to 2,000 and 11 to that 200-hit season. Franklin Gutierrez then followed by crushing a home run to left off Brett Tomko to make it 2-0.
Yeah, there's no Chris Tillman here, or George Sherrill. Or the other...
Ichiro set to take aim at milestone targets
September 03, 2009 by
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Ichiro has told Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu that his problematic calf muscle is starting to feel better, even though he's now playing daily on it. That means, for now, it's all systems "go'' this weekend as Ichiro prepares to topple one and possibly two big...
Bill Hall helps Felix Hernandez earn win No. 14
September 02, 2009 by
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Looked for a long time today like Felix Hernandez would fail to earn that important 14th victory as he tries to build some separation from Zack Greinke (and keep pace with others) in the Cy Young Award race. But Bill Hall delivered a one-out double in the seventh off Scott Kazmir...
Los Angeles Angels at Seattle Mariners: 09/02 game thread
September 02, 2009 by
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Felix Hernandez makes another pitch at Cy Young Award candidacy this afternoon, though the way Zack Greinke looks, it's going to be tough. I'm starting to think Greinke might win the award even if the 13 victories he has now are all he's going to finish with. We'll...
Jose Lopez playing first base today for Mariners
September 02, 2009 by
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Here's an interesting look for the Mariners as they get set to take on newly-acquired lefty Scott Kazmir and the Angels. Jose Lopez will be playing at first base. Mariners manager Don Wakamatsu says he wants the most righthanded lineup possible against southpaw Kazmir, who got...
Look for September to be Ken Griffey Jr.'s final bow
September 02, 2009 by
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Can't go anywhere these days without getting asked the question. No, not whether the Mariners can still win the wild-card. That one seems to have stopped. Now, as the Mariners head into their final 4 1/2 weeks, the question has become whether Ken Griffey Jr. is playing his last...
Talkin' Baseball coming up at 8:30 a.m.
September 02, 2009 by
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Don't forget my segment today on KJR AM 950's Mitch in the Morning show.
Los Angeles Angels at Seattle Mariners: 09/01 game thread
September 01, 2009 by
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Ichiro and Adrian Beltre make their returns tonight after being out for a couple of very different injuries.
In Ichiro's case, he had a strained calf muscle.
With Beltre, uh, put it this way. Ken Griffey Jr. said he had just the right intro music picked out for Beltre's first...
Adrian Beltre back in for Seattle Mariners -- with a cup
September 01, 2009 by
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Adrian Beltre didn't want to discuss whether or not he'd be wearing a protective cup for tonight's start at third base. Beltre is getting fed up with all the questions and jokes flying around the past three weeks since he injured a testicle while trying to field a ground...
Mike Carp, Jason Vargas promoted by Mariners; Adrian Beltre activated off DL
September 01, 2009 by
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The Mariners have begun their September callups, bringing up first baseman Mike Carp and lefthanded pitcher Jason Vargas from Class AAA Tacoma. The team is by no means finished adding, but the AAA season is still going on.
Carp was a no-brainer, given the injury to first baseman Russell Branyan.
Lee Pelekoudas: "It was just time"
September 01, 2009 by
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Larry Stone here. I just got off the phone with Lee Pelekoudas, who got emotional when he talked about leaving the organization that has been his professional home since 1979, when he joined the Mariners as director of team travel. Here's a feature I did about Pelekoudas's...
Mariners vice president Lee Pelekoudas resigns
September 01, 2009 by
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Can't say this comes as an extreme shock, but it does rate as considerable news. Mariners vice-president Lee Pelekoudas, who handled interim GM duties for the club last fall, has resigned.
A release put out by the team and statement from Pelekoudas says he is leaving to pursue...
Who will the Seattle Mariners add in September?
September 01, 2009 by
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This season is rapidly winding down, with the Mariners managing to finish August a game over .500 for the month despite last night's 10-0 demolition at the hands of a superior Angels squad. Things could improve slightly with the additions of Ichiro and Adrian Beltre, but don&...
Mariners lose a mismatch
September 01, 2009 by
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Don Wakamatsu felt this game started getting away from the Mariners when they failed to score after loading the bases in the first inning against Joe Saunders.
He also felt Luke French and Chris Jakubauskas weren't aggressive enough in attacking the Angels' lineup.
Both are...
Game thread, Mariners vs. Angels, Aug. 31 (and some more notes)
August 31, 2009 by
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Ichiro sits again, but will play tomorrow barring an unexpected setback.
"We felt one more day would help us a whole lot for everyone to feel a little safer when he came back,'' manager Don Wakamatsu said. "If we played him today, he'd have to try to manage his...
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