After Friday night’s 6-3 loss to the Los Angeles Angels, the Mariners will send Felix Hernandez to the mound Saturday in search of his third win. He’ll oppose Joe Blanton.
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After Seattle’s 6-0 blanking of the L.A. Angeles Thursday night, the Mariners will take a little momentum into Friday’s second game of the four-game series at Safeco Field.
Rookie Brandon Maurer pitched 6.1 effective innings, Carlos Peguero blasted a 451-foot, moonshot home run, and Kyle Seager extended his hitting streak to 14 games as the Mariners put a dismal 1-5 road trip into the rear-view mirror with a 6-0 rout of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim Thursday night at Safeco Field.
On or about May 13, the fate of the bid battle over the Kings franchise will be decided, and either Sacramento or Seattle “is going to be disappointed,” NBA commissioner David Stern told the annual meeting Thursday of the Associated Press Sports Editors in New York.
The reeling Mariners, who went 1-5 on a road trip through Arlington and Houston, begin a four-game series with the Angels Thursday at Safeco Field.
Maybe it’s time to stop referring to the Houston Astros as the worst team in the majors and point the finger instead at the team they out-scored 38-27 and out-hit 73-51 over six games this season. The Mariners ended a gruesome 1-5 road trip through Texas and Houston Wednesday with a 10-3 loss at Minute
A 3-2 loser to Houston Tuesday, the Mariners (8-14) will close out their three-game series with the lowly Astros Wednesday, starting at 11:10 a.m., PT.
The lowly Houston Astros (6-14) scored a run on a first-inning outfielder error by Raul Ibanez, had another on a solo homer in the third off Hisashi Iwakuma, and held on to beat the Mariners 3-2 Tuesday night to square a three-game series with Seattle at 1-1. The Mariners (8-14) had been seeking their first
The Mariners Tuesday placed CF Franklin Gutierrez on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring and recalled OF Carlos Peguero from AAA Tacoma. Peguero will join the club for Tuesday night’s game (5:10 p.m.) against the Houston Astros at Minute Maid Park and will wear jersey No. 4.
GAME: Mariners (8-13, 4th, AL West, -6.0 GB) at Astros (5-14, 5th, AL West, -8.0 GB). GAME #: 22. SERIES: 2nd of 3 games. MEETING: 5th (series tied 2-2). WHEN: Tuesday, 5:10 p.m., Minute Maid Park. STREAKS: Mariners W 1; Astros L 3. TV: Root Sports. RADIO: ESPN 710, Mariners Radio Network The Mariners are 21 games into the 2013 season and have not had a winning streak longer than two games. Those now-distant back-to-back wins occurred against Oakland in the first two games of the season April 1-2, which helps explain why Seattle is already six games out of…