I actually got a chance to listen to this game on the radio. It was at work, and I saw that the Mariners radio coverage had this game on, and I was able to listen to it through my subscription to MLB Gameday Audio, so that was cool. The Mariners broadcasters were much better than some of the other “away” guys I’ve listened to – sometimes even though I can listen to a game in spring training, I don’t want to, because the announcers are horrendous!
Anyway, for most of this game, I was thinking that I was going to write a short piece on how much the Rangers hitters got donut. For the longest time, we had just one hit, and it took awhile to get that one. We went down 4-0 in the seventh, but managed to make a game out of it in the seventh, putting up a 3 spot. But it went downhill in the 9th, when we gave up a really ugly 6 spot, which was helped along by an error by Drew Meyer.
Our first blowout of the spring. Even though we were close in the 7th, it never felt like a game we should win from the start. This was the first win of the spring for the Mariners too – which is why the USS Mariner website was happy about it. :)
CAC FINAL 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E - - - - - - - - - - - - SEATTLE 0 2 0 0 0 1 1 0 6 10 9 1 TEXAS 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 3 8 2 FINAL
WP - HORACIO RAMIREZ (1-0) LP - JAMEY WRIGHT (0-1) SAVE - JUSTIN LEHR (1)
TIME: 3:04 ATT: 3,908
SEATTLE (10) AT TEXAS (3)
SEATTLE AB R H BI TEXAS AB R H BI I Suzuki cf 3 0 0 0 K Lofton cf 2 0 0 0 A Jones cf 0 1 0 0 M Byrd cf 2 0 1 1 J Reed lf 3 0 0 0 F Catalanotto lf 3 0 0 0 W Balentien lf 2 1 0 0 T Donovan lf 2 0 2 0 W Bloomquist 3b 3 0 0 0 M Young ss 3 0 1 0 M Morse 3b 1 1 0 1 M Kata ss 2 0 0 0 R Sexson dh 2 0 0 0 S Sosa dh 3 0 1 0 T Torcato pr-dh 2 2 2 3 J Arias ph-dh 1 0 0 0 B Broussard rf 2 1 1 1 H Blalock 3b 3 0 0 0 M Wilson rf 2 0 0 0 D Meyer 3b 1 0 1 0 B LaHair 1b 3 2 1 1 N Cruz rf 3 0 0 0 J Burke c 3 0 2 2 V Diaz rf 1 0 0 0 M Garciaparra pr- 1 1 1 0 J Sandberg 1b 3 1 1 0 O Navarro 2b 2 0 1 1 G Laird c 1 1 0 0 R Rivera c 1 0 1 0 K Richardson c 1 0 0 0 R Ordonez ss 2 0 0 0 R Vazquez 2b 3 1 1 2 G Dawkins ss 2 1 0 0 D Relaford 2b 1 0 0 0 TOTALS 34 10 9 9 TOTALS 35 3 8 3
SEATTLE 020 001 106 -- 10 TEXAS 000 000 300 -- 3
E--M Morse, R Vazquez, D Meyer. DP--SEATTLE 1. LOB--SEATTLE 8, TEXAS 9. 2B--B Broussard. 3B--R Vazquez. CS--V Diaz. S--R Ordonez. IP H R ER BB SO HR SEATTLE H Ramirez (W,1-0) 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 J Mateo 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 A Rhodes 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 E O'Flaherty 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 J Huber 1 4 3 3 1 1 0 J Lehr (S,1) 2 2 0 0 0 1 0 TEXAS J Wright (L,0-1) 2 1 2 0 1 1 0 A Otsuka 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 E Volquez 2 0 0 0 2 0 0 T Diamond 1 3 2 2 2 1 0 W Eyre 2 1 0 0 1 2 0 C Wilson 1-3 1 5 4 3 0 0 S Rowe 2-3 3 1 1 0 1 0
HBP--R Rivera by S Rowe. SO--SEA: M Wilson 2, I Suzuki, W Bloomquist, J Reed, W Balentien. TEX: J Sandberg 2, M Young, S Sosa, N Cruz, K Lofton. BB--SEA: A Jones 2, B LaHair 2, R Sexson, B Broussard, O Navarro, M Garciaparra, M Morse. TEX: G Laird 2, K Lofton, J Sandberg. T--3:04. A--3,908.