Baseball: seattle mariners

the mariners season is a total disaster so far....on sunday they blew a 6-0 lead losing to the yankees 7-6, last night they had a 6-2 lead in the 8th inning and brought in hasagawa to relieve, he gave up a single and 3 walks before giving way to meyers....who threw one pitch and hit the batter....to make a long story short, the twins tied it up and the mariners lost in the 11th....people up here in the nw are getting tired of the excuses and lack of off season moves, attendance is beginning to fall off, and the grumbling in the press has begun on a daily basis....i believe that i have the only solution th the mess in the northwest....HIRAM BOCACHICA.....thats right it's time for hiram!!!!!

Yea things not looking too good for you at the moment.

The six-run lead that didn't hold up for the Mariners in Sunday's 7-6 loss to the Yankees was the first time a lead of at six least runs was blown since the Indians overcame a 12-0 deficit to beat Seattle, 15-14, in 2001.


In my opinion they have to make some big decisions on wether to add some new players to help out for the foreseable future or go long term and trade some established players for younger prospects. Thing is with the team they have i thought they would have done better than they have done so far. Also hasn't Rafael Soriano their reliever gone on the 15-day disabled list.?

soriano is on the dl and today bret boone is out with a hip pointer, he just came back from a back problem, we have plenty of young pitching talent in the farm system but the m's are reluctant to part with any of them, they look like they have aged 50 years over the winter

How about the Mariners today then. Six runs in the 13th innings to beat the Yankees!

they looked like they had it together today, need a lot more games like this one to get back into the race

Yep your right but nothing like getting big runs on the scoreboard to give the team some confidence.

for sure, last night they looked as bad as they looked good today, last nite the starting pitcher couldn't get out of the first inning, and then the reliever committed 2 errors, they looked awful, good to see them play well today

The Seattle Mariners blasted the Montreal Expos 8-to-1 and completed their first sweep of the season. Joel Pineiro ended his seven-game losing streak for the Ms, winning for the first time in 10 starts. He gave up one run and six hits in eight innings. Pineiro is now two-and-eight.

The Mariners scored their most runs since an 11-to-nothing victory over Baltimore on May 20th.

Their new-look lineup, featuring Ichiro Suzuki at number three, batted around in the third inning and scored four runs.

In the sixth inning, 41-year-old backup catcher Pat Borders singled for the Mariners, stole a base and scored on Randy Winn's single.

John Olerud hit a two-run homer in the seventh for Seattle.

the new batting order with ichiro hitting third looks to be working so far....pat borders stolen base was his first since june of 1994, expos probably couldn't believe it when he took off..lol

Yea things seem to be getting better for the Mariners... The A's are pretty hot right now though!

The answer was right there all along.

There, in the same Seattle Mariners clubhouse that has been looking for offensive production for an entire week, sat a left-handed hitter with serious power.

And yet the Mariners never once gave him a bat.

His name is Eddie Guardado, and he's got proven home run power. Just ask any of the Mariners pitchers, who have seen Guardado continually dominate home run derbies against his fellow pitchers over the past few days.

"He's got the most pop," reliever J.J. Putz said. "And he knows it. He'll be the first to tell you."

Maybe during batting practice. But now that the Mariners pitchers are on the verge of getting to prove their mettle with the bats, Guardado's bravado is a bit less obvious.


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as the mariners find new and exciting ways to lose ball games this year trade rumors are swirling around the team...after wednesdays lose to the blue jays the club house reporter stated that she has heard that big moves are to be expected in the next few days, when she was asked wether that meant trades or players released she said "either" look for some changes to the mariners real soon, i just have to wonder how safe manager bob melvins jon is, this team has too many quality ballplayers to be playing the way they are