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The Seattle Mariners (8-10) pounded out a season-high 15 hits in support of starter Jason Vargas and three relievers to snap a season-worst, four-game losing streak with a 7-4 victory over the Detroit Tigers at Comerica Park Tuesday. Michael Saunders starred for the Mariners with a 3-RBI night, and Ichiro produced three more hits and

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David Eskenazi’s Wayback Machine (check out the archive), normally published every Tuesday by Sportspress Northwest, is taking a Bye Week, its first since the feature’s launch in December of 2010. The feature will return Tuesday, May 1. In the interim, we recommend a Wayback story published one year ago this week, a chronicle of Seattle’s

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Baseball history isn’t often made at Safeco Field. But fortunately, there’s always a team playing besides the Mariners. The Chicago White Sox’s Philip Humber, a 29-year-old Texan coming back from Tommy John surgery, threw a perfect game against the Mariners Sunday afternoon, thrilling 22,742 fans in a 4-0 decision in which only one ball, from

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