The win averted a sweep as well as averting attention from more base-running blunders.
Who should come to the Mariners rescue? Why Jose, of course! (I believe he led the team in game winning hits last season). Here's hoping he is poised for a strong second half. Anyhoo, in the 10th, Guti reached 1B via fielder's choice and then stole 2B. Jose singled Guti home for what would prove to be the winning run.
~ M's save a bit of face by four-game sweep avoidance
~ Ichiro's boo-boo is forgotten (caught in a run-down between 2B and 3B for the second out of the 10th)
...or not ...
"Ichi's got to make sure that ball gets through, and he didn't,'' Wakamatsu said. "That ball's in froint of him, and he gets caught off guard there.''
It was reminiscent of Friday's game in which Jack Wilson was thrown out trying to go from first to third on a single to left.
"That's not good baseball, and those are veteran players,'' Wakamatsu said. "Those two plays, the balls in front of them. They have to make better decisions.''
Too bad for Jason ...
Once again he throws a quality start and has nothing to show for it. I decided to look up run support and here's what I found: going into today's game there were 58 starting pitchers with at least 80 innings pitched. Jason is 57th of the 58 in run support. And, oh by the way, RRS is 50th, Cliff is 52nd, Doug is 54th and Felix is 56th.
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