Mariners Play As Sleepy As We Feel, Lose First Of Many
On Thursday, the Seattle Mariners lost to the Oakland Athletics 4-1 in the second of two regular season games in Tokyo, Japan.
| Final - 3.29.2012 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Mariners | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Oakland Athletics | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | X | 4 | 7 | 0 |
On Thursday, the Seattle Mariners lost to the Oakland Athletics 4-1 in the second of two regular season games in Tokyo, Japan.
The Cuban star slammed one of three Oakland home runs to give the A's a split of their series in Japan with the M's.
Win expectancy chart for the Mariners' loss to the Athletics on Thursday in Tokyo, Japan.
When I started creating this post, there were no runs. Now there is one run! It is a run that we wanted!
Seattle Mariners "at" Oakland Athletics, series preview.
| FINAL | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | R | H | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Oakland | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | X | 4 | 7 | 0 |
| Seattle Mariners | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chone Figgins, LF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .125 |
| Dustin Ackley, 2B | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .222 |
| Ichiro Suzuki, RF | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .444 |
| Justin Smoak, 1B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .111 |
| Jesus Montero, DH | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .143 |
| Kyle Seager, 3B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .000 |
| Miguel Olivo, C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| Michael Saunders, CF | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .167 |
| Brendan Ryan, SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .143 |
| Totals | 30 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jason Vargas | 6.1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1.42 | 85-54 | |
| Shawn Kelley (L, 0-1) | 0.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 27.00 | 8-5 | |
| George Sherrill | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0.00 | 10-6 | |
| Steve Delabar | 1.1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6.75 | 22-16 |
| Oakland Athletics | |||||||
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | AVG |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jemile Weeks, 2B | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | .125 |
| Cliff Pennington, SS | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Coco Crisp, LF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | .000 |
| Jonny Gomes, DH | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | .250 |
| Kurt Suzuki, C | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | .111 |
| Yoenis Cespedes, CF | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | .333 |
| Josh Reddick, RF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | .286 |
| Josh Donaldson, 3B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Kila Ka`aihue, 1B | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .333 |
| Brandon Allen, pr,3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 |
| Totals | 30 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 5 | |
| Pitchers | IP | H | R | ER | BB | K | HR | ERA | WP | PC-ST |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartolo Colon (W, 1-0) | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 1.13 | 86-63 | |
| Grant Balfour (S, 0-0; S,1) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0.00 | 13-6 |