Joy of joys, the Mariners scored more than a couple of runs, and even had TWO homers in the 8th inning as they won 6-3. And, we saw a little history as for the first time in ML History a team featured three Japanese born players in the starting lineup.
Orioles (42-36)
Andino 2B
Hardy SS
Betemit 3B
Jones CF
Thome DH
Wieters C
Davis RF
Reynolds 1B
Pearce LF
Hammel (8-3, 3.29)
Mariners (34-47)
Ichiro RF
Wells CF
Jaso DH
Seager 3B
Olivo C
Ackley 1B
Figgins LF
Kawasaki 2B
Ryan SS
Iwakuma (1-1, 4.75)
Iwakuma had his first ML start due to injuries, he's been our long reliever all year. He pitched pretty decently. There was one pitch he would have liked to do over, the three run homer by Davis in the 4th. But he went 5 innings, and the Bullpen came in and did what they've been doing pretty much all year long. The Bullpen only allowed two base runners the final four innings, a walk and a hit batter! The walk was to Thome, passing Mantle for 7th all-time. Thome just joined Baltimore a few days ago, I can't believe he's still playing!
The Mariners were down 3-1 going into the bottom of the seventh, but we put ourselves up for good with a bases loaded double by Wells in the right-center gap to put us up 4-3. We added two insurance runs in the 8th via back to back one out homers by Olivo and Ackley. Ackley's was on the first pitch.
It was nice to see the Mariners come back and score some runs. However, they need to start learning how to score early to reduce the pressure on their starting pitchers to be perfect.
The Mariners are now 11-12 when I attend. The roof was closed the entire game.
Attendance: 14,805
Time of Game: 2:34
