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Wednesday, May. 07, 2008
Mariners update
By THE NEWS TRIBUNE
The weather in Peoria, Ariz., is turning from warm to hot – temperatures climbed from the high-70s to mid-80s during the game. Temperatures in the low- 90s are expected in the coming days. A large crowd of 11,029 enjoyed the sun-drenched day. The game
Rangers 8, Mariners 5
Seattle pitchers were roughed up for 18 hits as Texas overcame a 4-2, first-inning deficit to beat Seattle at a packed Peoria Stadium.
Seattle starter Ryan Feierabend pitched four innings, allowing eight hits and three runs, and took a nasty line drive off the inside of his knee.
The Mariners put up a four-run first inning highlighted by an RBI double from Adrian Beltre and RBI singles by Greg Norton and Mike Morse.
But the lead didn’t stand as Texas scored four on five hits off reliever Jake Woods to take a 7-4 lead in the fifth. Seattle cut into the lead on another RBI single by Morse to make it 7-5, but a misjudged pop-up by Miguel Cairo led to a run off Chris Reitsma in the seventh.
Woods (1-1) took the loss for the Mariners, and Eric Hurley (2-1) got the win.
Morse and Jose Lopez each had three hits to lead the Mariners, and Norton added two hits.
Notable
• Morse celebrated his 26th birthday by going 3-for-4 with two RBI and pushing his spring average to .542. More importantly, he made all the plays in right field and looked markedly better than his last time at the position.
• Feierabend, on the drive off his knee: “I saw the ball right off the bat but I just couldn’t get out the way, it was hit so hard. The first thing I thought of was, ‘Where’s the ball?’ But when I took that first step, it was, ‘Oh, this hurts so bad.’ ”
To his credit, Feierabend stayed in the game and struck out the next batter to end the inning. He pitched another scoreless inning before ending his day with a large ice bag wrapped around his leg.
“I was just being competitive,” he said. “I’m here to compete for a job. I don’t have a spot up here. If I could pitch, I wanted to try and pitch.”
• Former Washington State standout Mike Kinkade got his first action with the Mariners this spring, catching the ninth inning but failing to register an at-bat. Kinkade was signed to a minor league contract early in the spring.
• Instead of pitching against the American League West rival Los Angeles Angels today, Carlos Silva and Brandon Morrow will pitch in a minor league game at 10:30 a.m. It will be Morrow’s first action since being shut down with a tired arm over a week ago.
• The Mariners said there are still seats available for opening day March 31 against the Rangers at Safeco Field. Plenty of seats remain for the rest of the opening series as well.
Medical Report
Right-hander Miguel Batista has a stiff lower back but threw in the bullpen Saturday. ... Willie Bloomquist is nursing a sore quadriceps, but played in the minor league games, getting in seven at-bats. ... Righty Anderson Garcia (shoulder inflammation) is on a throwing program for the next two weeks while conditioning.
Quotable
“I don’t know what we can do over the weekend that we won’t know by the middle of the week. I just don’t know what a weekend series in Vegas playing the slot machines will do for us. We should know when we hit that plane exactly where we are.” – McLaren on making cuts before the Mariners break camp
Up Next
The Mariners travel to Tempe today to face the Angels at 1:05 p.m. Right-hander Cha Seung Baek will get the start for the Mariners, and lefty Joe Saunders will go for Los Angeles. The game can be heard on 1000-AM.
Ryan Divish, The News Tribune
