9/22/2008

Athletics 5, M's 3

Mariner game 9/21

......R...H...E
SEA...3...7...0
OAK...5...4...0

Box score

Game Story

The Mariners sent Brandon Morrow to the mound Sunday for his fourth major-league start, hoping he could derail what stood to become the second 0-11 road trip in franchise history. In a season punctuated by disappointment, futility and all-around embarrassment, the promise of better things to come is personified in the 98-mph fastball and devastating power curve thrown by their former No. 1 draft pick.

Morrow delivered beyond what was expected in carrying a one-hitter and three-run lead into the seventh inning. But a few too many walks and a bullpen now as porous as any in the league proved his undoing in a 5-3 loss to the Oakland Athletics that sealed Seattle's winless road trip.

Ex-Rattlers for Seattle:
Raul Ibanez (Foxes, '94): 0-for-4, 4Ks
Bryan LaHair ('04): 0-for-4, 2Ks
Luis Valbuena ('06): 1-for-3, run, BB

Tonight's Mariner game:
LAA: Ervin Santana (15-6)
SEA: Ryan Rowland-Smith (4-2)
9:10pm CDT

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