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Seattle beats Angels in 12 innings 8/13/08

Friday, August 15th, 2008

On Wednesday night, the Seattle Mariners (46-75) beat the Los Angeles Angels (75-44) 10-7 in 12 innings. Angels closer Francisco Rodriguez, who is creeping closer to the single season saves record, blew his fifth save of the season. Seattle’s Wladimir Balentien hit a three-run homer with two outs in the 12th after striking out four times to give Seattle the victory. In the Angels case, they’ve built up such a big lead in the AL West, currently at 15 games above the Rangers, that they can afford to lose games without thinking much about it. Roy Corcoran allowed one hit over three innings to get the win and snap Seattle’s five-game losing streak. Newly acquired Mark Teixeira had two homeruns in the game for the Angles in the losing effort.

Roy Corcoran (3-0) was given the win, and Justin Speier (1-5) was given the loss.

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Wild finish in Texas

Wednesday, July 30th, 2008

The Seattle Mariners (40-66) faced the Texas Rangers (55-52) last night in a game that had many moments both sides would like to forget. Texas was up 9-3 going into the 6th inning but gave up 3 runs. They gave up 2 runs in the 7th and 2 runs in the 9th as well to eventually fall behind 10-9 going into the bottom half of the ninth inning. Rangers third basemen Ramón Vázquez had plenty to do with giving up the big lead.  He accounted for 3 of the Rangers 5 errors. But Vázquez actually ended up being the savior of the game as he hit a two run double in the bottom of the ninth to give Texas an 11-10 victory over Seattle. Vazquez had this to say about the result of his 9th inning double: “It’s awesome. I was glad to do something to end the game. It would have been a tough one leaving this game if we would have lost.”

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