M's 3 - Padres 1

Mariners win. Welcome to the big leagues Blake Beavan. In his major league debut Blake goes 7 innings, strikes out 4, walks 2, and allows just 1 run. Much talk has been made of late about the lack of starting pitching depth on this team. They're still right. Blake Beavan had about the softest of landings you can image. The Padres are almost as good as the Sacramento Bees this year. Behind Blake in terms of depth are Chris Seddon (nice hair), Luke French (bad), Chaz Roe (so hittable), Fabio Castro (short! like, 5'7''), and Charlie Haeger (KNUCKLER!).

To make room on the roster for Blake, Mike Carp was sent down to Tacoma. He promptly hit a home run on his first night back. Anger issues, Mike.

After putting up the lone decent offensive performance yesterday, Greg Halman goes 0-for-4 with 3 strikeouts today. Ichiro goes 2-for-3 with a walk and a stolen base. Franklin Gutierrez, while still a gem of a guy defensively, is sooooo bad at the plate right now.

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Bring on the A's.

BTW Kyle Seager is tearing up the PCL since his promotion. And he's been moved from 2nd to 3rd. Jus' sayin'.

06/27/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - Braves 3

Mariners lose. Brandon Beachy is a very good pitcher so the rope-a-dope tactic of striking out nine times in order to elevate his pitch count and end up having him leave the game after 6 innings was an interesting new tactic for this woeful offense. Erik Bedard went 7 innings, struck out 5, walked one, and allowed 3 runs, his last two off a two-run home run in the 7th. Adam Kennedy hit a home run and Dustin Ackley went 1-for-3 with a walk. Mike Carp had a multiple hit game going 2-for-3.

L.A. Angels move ino second place. Standings are: Texas, Angels (1.5 back), M's (2 back), Oakland (6 back).

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06/19/11 30-Second Recap

M's 2 - Phillies 0

The Mariners take the series in dramatic fashion with a Jason Vargas complete game shutout over the Phillies. Vargas K'd 6, BB'd 2 and out-dueled Cole Hamels. Ackley tripled, Ichiro and Smoak had two hits apiece, and Mike Carp got pinch-hit for in favor of Adam Kennedy. Nice win, congrats to Vargas. Happy Father's Day to me!

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06/11/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - Tigers 8

Mariners lose as Michael Pineda had his second hiccup on the year. Although he went 5.1 innings with 4 K's and only 1 BB, not a bad line for a bad outing, he was hung with 5 earned runs and 1 unearned run by the time he hit the showers in the 6th. Ichiro went 2 for 4 with a triple after his off day. The rest of the team's hits came from Smoak, Carp, and Halman, pretty much who you'd expect right now.

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Of note, not only have the Rangers had the same game result as the Mariners for the past 7 games, they lost today 8 to 1. Copycats!

06/09/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - Tigers 4

The Mariners kick off a 4-game set in Detroit with a loss. Verlander K'd 10 Sea-farers while walking only 1 (Mike Carp, by the by). Fister did the bull-pen a solid by going all the way, 8 innings, K'd 3, BB'd 2. He pitched 87 pitches. Adam Kennedy went 2 for 4 and Halman went 1 for 4 dropping his average to .636. The M's 1 run came off the following play: Ja Wilson struck out swinging, Ja Wilson safe at first on wild pitch by J Verlander, G Halman scored.

Wow.

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06/08/11 30-Second Recap

M's 7 - White Sox 4

Mariners win in 10 innings to avoid the sweep. Jason Vargas goes 7.1 innings, K's 4, BB's 1. Carp, in his 2011 MLB debut, goes 1 for 4 with a double and a strikeout. Miguel Olivo hit a homerun in the 8th and what ended up being the game-winning double in the 10th. Also, Gutierrez lays down a suicide squeeze, the 2nd this week. Brandon League earned his 17th save of the season.

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06/07/11 30-Second Recap

M's 1 - White Sox 5

Mariners lose. King Felix doesn't seem to have his best stuff this game and still goes 6.2 innings with 5 Ks and 2 BBs. He gives up home runs to Paul Konerko and another one (a cheap barley-nicked-the-edge-of-the-foul-pole job) to Carlos Quentin. Carlos Peguero goes 2 for 3. Chone Figgins looks baaaaaad. The whole offense pretty much stunk it up. Man, they should totally bring up Mike Carp or something.

What's that? Huh? Oh. Cool! I guess they did.

Carp up, Mike Wilson down. Well well well.

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