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Mariners Briefly

Welcome back, Pat Borders!

If I'm not mistaken I saw him hit a game winning walk-off single last year.
I have forgotten since then M's were playing against which NL team on that day,
but I was there to see it. That was exciting.

As for the standing in the AL West, I don't think M's will improve much
from where they are now.

Unless,
the mystery man Jorge Campillo comes in to go on a long winning streak.

And maybe Chris Snelling gets called up and wins a few games,
although it is hard to make a room for hin in OF or DH at the moment.
But he'll be fun to watch.

As for the past few serieses against Boston and New York,
before the roadtrip began,
I had predicted the outcome of these games would decide
where M's would end up eventually.
Unfortunately, against two of the best teams in AL, M's were no-match,
so, actually being .500 against Boston after two serieses is better than I expected.

I was expecting much worse from the last home stand.
The last game against the Yankees, M's came back from 4-0,
6-2 deficit and won eventualy by 7-6.
It's something we had not seen for a long time,
a big come-from-behind win.
By the contribution from Reed, Valdez and Olivo at that.
The one-run lead was too close for comfort, but M's bullpen did a good job without Eddie.

After all, it's the meltdown of the starting pitching,
namely Jamie and Joel who should have been the top two of the rotation.
Meche and Franklin were mostly doing what was predicted from them.
But I'm afraid we might have seen the last of Mr. Sele in the last Yankee game.

The question I have now is,
will M's give up early again and bring in youngsters?