The Mariners haven’t taken a season series from the Red Sox since 2007, but Boston, last in the AL East, has struggled so far this season.
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The Seattle Sounders had a chance to score 15 points in five matches, but couldn’t get it done, one of the many intrigues of The Week That Was (May 7-13).
New York native Casper Wells drove in 3 runs Sunday in his Yankee Stadium debut, and Kevin Millwood held Yanks to three hits in 6-2 win over Andy Pettitte.
The imbalance on the Mariners roster — expensive veterans and unproven youngsters with no mid-career players carrying the team — is starting to get to manager Eric Wedge. In a blunt conversation with reporters before Sunday’s game, Wedge talked about lineup adjustments. “We don’t have any veteran guys doing anything right now,” he said. “It’s
Andy Pettitte is coming out of retirement at 39 to make his first start Sunday against the Mariners, who have dropped the first two games of the series in New York.
The Mariners quit twice on Raul Ibanez. Apparently, he’s not going to let them forget it. Even at 40. Ibanez hit a 420-foot solo homer and a run-scoring double while pitcher Phil Hughes looked like Bob Gibson to the futile Mariners lineup in a 6-2 Yankees victory over Seattle Saturday afternoon in the Bronx. The
Against the team that ousted them from the postseason last year, the Sounders take on Real Salt Lake Saturday with the Western Conference lead at stake.
Having stopped the Mariners’ stopper, Felix Hernandez, the Yankees go after “the other guy” in the Montero-Pineda trade Saturday in New York.
Former Mariner Raul Ibanez (1996-00, 2004-08), who hit 127 home runs wearing a Seattle uniform, ripped a three-run homer off Felix Hernandez in the bottom of the sixth inning Friday, lifting the New York Yankees to a 6-2 victory and spoiling the start of Seattle’s 10-game, 10-day road trip.
Upon his arrival in New York Friday, Mariners GM Jack Zduriencik said he “feels bad” for his Yankee counterpart, Brian Cashman, over the loss of Michael Pineda for the entire season. Zduriencik said he never realized Pineda was damaged goods when he traded the 23-year-old pitcher to the Yankees in a January blockbuster that netted