Ten-run fourth inning against Jason Vargas and Tom Wilhelmsen does in Seattle against Cleveland, leaving opening night already feeling like a closing act.
Author: John Hickey
John Hickey
John is a longtime West Coast-based baseball writer who covered the Oakland As for two decades with The (Hayward) Daily Review and the Oakland Tribune. He headed north in 2000 to cover the Mariners for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, starting on the day Ken Griffey Jr. was traded to Cincinnati. After the print P-I closed in 2009, he joined the national sports staff of AOL FanHouse and contributes to Seattlepostglobe.org. He is a longtime baseball correspondent for the Tokyo Chunichi Press. A member of the Baseball Writers Association of America (BBWAA) for two-plus decades, Hickey is a Hall of Fame voter. When hes not covering baseball, he has written about pro football, college sports, tennis, golf and winter sports. A University of California grad, Hickey is a fan of rock and jazz music, traveling, reading and cooking. He proved in high school that hes no athlete, but he does like to ski. Hickey and his wife live in Seattle in a house ruled by two magnanimous cats.
Experienced Josh Bard was passed over to step in for injured Adam Moore. The reason? The Mariners like Gimenez’s ability to play positions other than catch. Though there are holes in this argument.
Second baseman’s self-removal after two errors irks manager
Josh Bard likely to be called up from Tacoma Friday to become the Mariners’ second catcher behind Miguel Olivo.
C.J. Wilson outduels Seattle ace Felix Hernandez as injury-prone Mariners drop their fourth consecutive game.
Big rookie shows himself well, but the Mariner offense doesn’t flex much muscle on his behalf. Stop us if you’ve heard that before …
Longtime teammates looking forward to a little mano-a-mano
Lueke, Wilhelmsen and Pineda could dictate results of Seattle pitching
Seattle outfielders blinded by the light as M’s suffer first loss of season in Oakland.
Shortstop a little miffed that he didn’t get a double play when he had a chance Saturday against Oakland.