About an Intrasquad game

The Mariners held their intrasquad game yesterday and Daren Brown's team beat Scott Steinmann's team 2-1. Coverage may be found at the following links.

Geoff Baker's blog at the Seattle Times has video in this post.

Jim Street has this report in his Notes section at the M's website:

Mariners win, and lose: Sacrifice flies by Jeff Clement and Matt Kiger scored both runs for Team Brown in Wednesday's 2-1 victory over Team Steinmann in the spring's only intrasquad game.

Center fielder Bronson Sardinha, a non-roster player invited to camp, slugged a home run in the fourth inning to give the losing team a 1-0 lead. Team Brown tied the game in the bottom of the fourth and grabbed the lead an inning later when Adam Moore singled and advanced to third on Sardinha's error.

Young pitching dominated the six-inning game. Team Brown hurlers Robert Rohrbaugh, Brodie Downs and Cesar Jiminez surrendered six hits, struck out six and walked none.

For Team Steinmann, Joe Woerman, Philip Barzilla and Steven Kahn surrendered six hits, walked two and struck out four.

Ryan Divish of the Tacoma News-Tribune gets a bit more in-depth and looks at some of the possible members of the Rainiers, many of whom are ex-Rattlers.

Guys such as Bryan LaHair, Rob Johnson, Yung Chi Chen, Charlton Jimerson, Rob Rohrbaugh, Cesar Jimenez, Brant Ust and possibly Jeff Clement or Wladimir Balentien could be among those headed to Tacoma for another season.

“All I’m trying to do is to make an impression on the coaching staff,” said LaHair, a first baseman who spent all of last season with the Rainiers.

LaHair went 2-for-2 on Wednesday, ripping a double down the line and showing decent speed for a guy who is 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds.

After being named the Mariners’ minor league MVP in 2006 after hitting .309 with 22 doubles, 16 home runs and 74 RBI in 114 games, LaHair’s star lost some luster last season as he hit .275 with 46 doubles, 12 home runs and 46 RBI with 126 strikeouts.

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Rohrbaugh pitched two perfect innings to start, and Jimenez was dominant at the end, also pitching two perfect innings and striking out four.

“Rob is a guy that when he’s locating, he’s going to keep hitters off-balance,” said Daren Brown, who managed Rohrbaugh in Tacoma last season. “He pitches to contact, and he’s looking to hit the bat in some place other than the barrel.”

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“That is the first time I’ve seen Jimenez, for sure, and I heard a lot about him in winter ball, but I liked what I saw,” [Seattle manager John] McLaren said.