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.

(41-43)

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'.