SB Nation Seattle - It Doesn't Matter What Country The Game Is In, Mariners Losehttps://cdn.vox-cdn.com/community_logos/48997/seattle-fave.png2010-09-21T21:06:41-07:00http://seattle.sbnation.com/rss/stream/14669462010-09-21T21:06:41-07:002010-09-21T21:06:41-07:00It Doesn't Matter What Country The Game Is In, Mariners Lose
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<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Toronto, ON (<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/mlb/events/54262/recap/115761" target="_blank">Sports Network</a>) - <span>Vernon Wells</span> and <span>Travis Snider</span> each hit a two- run homer, as the <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Toronto Blue Jays</a> defeated the <a style="outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #c61c17; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; margin: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;" href="https://www.lookoutlanding.com/" class="sbn-auto-link">Seattle Mariners</a>, 5-3, in the opener of a three-game series at Rogers Centre.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span>Edwin Encarnacion</span> added a solo blast for the Blue Jays, who lead the majors with 232 home runs this season -- 12 shy of matching the club record set in 2000.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Toronto starting pitcher <span>Marc Rzepczynski</span> (2-4) gave up two runs on seven hits in 6 1/3 innings. The left-hander walked three and struck out eight.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span>Jose Lopez</span> had a pair of RBI singles for Seattle, while <span>Luke French</span> (4-6) allowed five runs on seven hits over seven full frames.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Mariners right fielder <span>Ichiro Suzuki</span> went 4-for-4 and scored two runs. He leads the majors with 197 hits and is now three short of his 10th straight 200-hit campaign.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;"><span>Kevin Gregg</span> came on to protect a three-run lead for Toronto in the ninth, and <span>Matt Tuiasosopo</span> doubled with one out on a fly ball that should have been caught. A two-out single by Suzuki put men on the corners for <span>Chone Figgins</span>, who lined an RBI single to right field. Gregg, though, fanned Lopez to end the game and earn his 34th save.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Suzuki led off the contest with a single and advanced on a passed ball. Figgins sacrificed the runner to third and Lopez drove in the game's first run with a base hit.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">The Blue Jays took a 2-1 lead in the bottom of the first on Wells' 28th home run, which followed a two-out single by <span>Jose Bautista</span>.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Encarnacion cleared the left-field wall to begin the second and Snider went deep with two away in the fourth to make it a 5-1 game.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Lopez drove home Suzuki with a two-out single in the fifth.</p>
<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; padding: 0px; border: 0px initial initial;">Suzuki recorded his MLB-leading 63rd multi-hit game of the season...Toronto and Seattle split a two-game set at Safeco Field back in May, with each game decided by a single run...Rzepczynski had been winless (0-3) in his previous six starts...French fell to 1-5 on the road in 2010.</p>
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https://seattle.sbnation.com/2010/9/21/1703374/seattle-mariners-toronto-blue-jays-tuesday-scoreBen Golliver2010-09-21T16:19:31-07:002010-09-21T16:19:31-07:00Mariners Head To Canada For Three-Game Series With Blue Jays
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<p>(<a href="http://www.sportsnetwork.com/merge/tsnform.aspx?c=sportsnetwork&page=mlb/scores/live/preview.aspx?id=27512" target="_blank">Sports Network</a>) - <span>Jose Bautista</span> eyes his 50th home run of the season this evening when the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.bluebirdbanter.com/">Toronto Blue Jays</a> open a three-game series with the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lookoutlanding.com/">Seattle Mariners</a> at Rogers Centre.</p>
<p>Bautista has blasted a team-record 49 homers this season and is on the verge of becoming the 26th player in history to reach the 50-homer mark. <span>Prince Fielder</span> (50) and <span>Alex Rodriguez</span> (54) last reached the milestone in 2007.</p>
<p>The 29-year-old Bautista, who had not hit more than 16 homers in a season before this year, managed two home runs over the weekend in Boston, where the Jays took two of three, but were denied a sweep on Sunday in a 6-0 loss.</p>
<p><span>Shaun Marcum</span> (12-8) allowed six runs on nine hits in 5 1/3 innings for the Blue Jays, who were shut out for the eighth time this season and fell for the eighth time in their last 11 games overall.</p>
<p>The loss also officially eliminated the Blue Jays from postseason contention.</p>
<p>Getting the call for the Jays tonight will be <span>Marc Rzepczynski</span>, who is 1-4 with a 6.15 ERA. Rzepczynski did not get a decision last Monday in Baltimore, as he allowed a pair of runs and six hits in five innings of a 4-3 loss.</p>
<p>Rzepczynski did not record a decision in his only other start against the Jays, as he gave up three runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings of that outing last season.</p>
<p>Seattle, meanwhile, comes into tonight's tilt after taking two of three from the <a class="sbn-auto-link" href="https://www.lonestarball.com/">Texas Rangers</a>. The Mariners pulled out a series win on Sunday, as <span>Josh Wilson</span> singled home the go-ahead run in the bottom of the seventh inning, lifting Seattle to a 2-1 win.</p>
<p><span>Doug Fister</span> (6-12) gave up a run on nine hits over seven innings for the Mariners.</p>
<p>Heading to the hill for the Mariners tonight will be lefty <span>Luke French</span>, who is 4-5 with a 4.02 ERA. French did not factor in the decision of his team's 9-6 loss to Boston on Tuesday, allowing four runs and six hits in seven innings.</p>
<p>This will be his first-ever start against the Blue Jays.</p>
<p>Bautista won't be the only one chasing a milestone in this series, as Seattle outfielder <span>Ichiro Suzuki</span> is on the cusp of his 10th consecutive 200 hit season.</p>
<p>Suzuki leads the majors with 193 hits and should he end the year as the league leader in that category it would mark the fifth straight year he has done so and the seventh time overall, which would tie Pete Rose and Ty Cobb for most seasons leading the majors in hits.</p>
<p>The Mariners and Jays split a two-game set at Safeco Field back in May.</p>
https://seattle.sbnation.com/2010/9/21/2321361/mariners-head-to-canada-for-three-game-series-with-blue-jaysBen Golliver