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Blakely homers somewhere and it is 15-9. Borchard up.

Gustavo Molina flys out to Ichiro and Darren Blakely is our last bullet.

Andy Gonzalez up. To open the 9th. Mariner pitcher, Jiminez, has 'wowed' the Mariners with his work this spring. He throws lots of strikes, ala McCarthy. Gonzalez grounds out.

B. Gill sends a 2 hopper to Valdez at 2nd and he runs to the bag at second to force Dobbs (or is it Hobbs). End of the 8th.

Ground ball to short, should have been a double play, but Valdez dropped the Martinez feed. Still the ump gave the Sox an out at 2nd.

Had to disappear for a minute. I think Smith hit the first batter. Now he is facing Ichiro. They are saying Smith has an odd throwing motion. Very wide open and he suddenly explodes on the hitter from the stretch. Ichiro flies out to left. I am assuming, perhaps incorrectly that there is a runner on 1st, 1 out.

Burke hit by a full count pitch. Wilson Valdez grounds out. Bottom of the 8th. 15-8.

Jerry Owens out on a routine bouncer to 2nd. Burke up. 2 away, top of the 8th.

Ozuna up. Chris Budlosky pitching. Even the Mariner announcers don't know him. Ozuna lines out to right. Owens up.

Smith throws one by the catcher, it bounces off the backstop back to Molina and Smith tags the runner coming in from 3rd, with th essist to Molina. 8th inning coming up. 15-8.

Matt Smith up. Maybe this will be promising.

Tetsu sounds like he has a deceptive change. He is all over the place, though. Bond walks on a wild pitch. 1st and 3rd and a new pitcher coming in.

Moon stikes out. Then a Yofu wild pitch to someone called Bond, I think. 2 out, man on 2nd.

QUOTE(BHAMBARONS @ Mar 27, 2005 -> 06:48 PM) Hopefully we can stop them from putting another crooked number on the board I have 13 runs on 11 hits for the M's Sorry about this. Gutierrez double and Ibanez single. 2 more runs. Moon up.

Spezio strikes out on a change up. 1 out, 1 on. Guttierez up.

Molina catching. Burke to first. Gill receives a lead-off walk from Tetsu.

Uribe pops out to 3rd. Stretch time. 13-8.

Borchard whiffs on a 2-2 count. 1 on 2 out. Uribe up.

Dye walks. 1 out, 1 on. Borchard up.

Konerko grounds one down the line and is thrown out by new 3rd sacker, Benji Gill. One out. Dye up.

Nate Bland is the new Mariner pitcher. Konerko up. Lots of changes to the Mariner lineup. Battery-mate, for one, is Brian Moon.

The 'Natural' lines out to one of the infielders. Don't know who - my wife was blessedly interrupting me with a cold one. 7th inning coming up. 13-8.

Holy Mackeral. Tetsu Yofu pitching to Ichiro. At least these pitches won't be straight! Ground ball hits the first base bag. Konerko can't find the handle with his bare hand. Idhiro safe. Runner scores from third. 13-8. Greg Dobbs hitting in Randy Winn's place.

Santiago flares one down the right field line, that galnces off the glove of a diving Dye. 2 runs score, Santiago ends up at third. I believe that makes it 12-8. Ozzie out to the mound. Politte hopefully considereing a career change.

Bloomquist also fights off several 2 strike pitches, then drives one hard to center that is caught. Runner on 2nd advances to third. 1st and 3rd. 2 out.