ST26 | vs. Rangers

Mariners 4 | Rangers 5

NOT SPECTACULAR MOUND PRESENCE TODAY
French gave up a lot of hits (NINE) in FIVE innings allowing THREE runs, ONE walk and ZERO K's.  The "W's" (Wilhelmsen and Wright) continued to cruise through spring and the "P's" (Pauley and Patterson) each gave up ONE run (Patterson's coming in the 10th as the winning run for the Rangers)

OFFENSE EARLY SPARK AND THEN A FIZZLE
Figgy hit his first homer of the spring in the first inning with Ichiro on base.  Bradley singled, moved to second when Cust grounded out and scored on Langerhans single.  Then the lull began, as only TWO player reached base (and NONE scored) until Seager homered in the 8th to tie the game at four.

DEFENSE LOOKING SOLID (even the backups)
Heard most of the game on the radio today (a rarity) and the guys seemed pretty pumped about the D.  Only ONE double play, but Moore recorded a pick-off and Josh Wilson made some nifty plays at 2B.

NEWS AND NOTES

• Felix's final tune-up | Seattle Times
• Laffey's new focus | Mariners.com

ST13 | vs. A's

Mariners 10 | Athletics 2

PITCHING, FOR THE MOST PART, STRONG AGAIN
Beavan looked good in his THREE innings of work.  In fact, all but League (who you hope is working on something because he's given up at least one run in all but one outing this spring) had good days:  French continues having a great spring, adding another FOUR scoreless innings with FOUR strikeouts; Wright and Wilhelmson each pitched scoreless innings to preserve their respective 0.00 ERA's

BATS BANG OUT THIRTEEN HITS
including FIVE doubles and a TWO-run homer from Justin Smoak - great to see him getting going (he also had a two-run single).  And, gotta love the 7 for 14 with RISP!

NEWS AND NOTES

• Mariners cut SIX
• Felix has some fun "down under" - tosses FOUR innings in an intrasquad game