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Assistant Sports Editor
Adam Thaler
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athaler@theolympian.com
Sports Reporter
Meg Wochnick
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mwochnick@theolympian.com
SEATTLE – Struggling Albert Pujols had three hits, including the 450th home run of his career, Dan Haren struck out a career-high 14 in tossing his sixth career complete-game shutout, and the Los Angeles Angels won their third in a row with a 3-0 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday night at Safeco Field.
SEATTLE — The broken record of flailing swings, empty at-bats and strikeouts piling up against Los Angeles starter Dan Haren irritated Seattle manager Eric Wedge to no end.
SEATTLE — The gem Dan Haren tossed Thursday night looked awfully familiar to Albert Pujols. Except this time instead of Pujols getting fooled by what Haren was tossing, he was helping the Los Angeles Angels' right-hander put together one of the finest efforts of his career.
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Seattle – Miguel Olivo is returning to the Seattle Mariners as soon as the next few days, which means someone on the 25-man roster will have to come off.
Seattle – Kevin Millwood appears to have come unstuck in time, and the Seattle Mariners won Wednesday despite being held to four hits largely because Millwood put up six zeros on the scoreboard.
SEATTLE — Alex Liddi hit the first major league grand slam by an Italian-born player in half-century, Kevin Millwood threw six shutout innings and the Seattle Mariners took two of three from division-leading Texas with a 5-3 win over the Rangers on Wednesday.
Maybe if the fences were just a few feet closer in, or if Josh Hamilton wasn’t quite so good, the Seattle Mariners might have extended their winning streak to five games.
SEATTLE — Hector Noesi wanted his pitch to Elvis Andrus to end up in the dirt. And it did - on the warning track.
SEATTLE — Elvis Andrus lined a two-strike pitch into the left-center field gap for a two-run triple, Josh Hamilton made two tremendous catches in center field and added an RBI double, and the Texas Rangers snapped Seattle's win streak at four with a 3-1 win over the Mariners on Tuesday night.
DENVER – Eric Wedge had a clear, simple answer when asked Sunday what he’d seen at the plate from shortstop Brendan Ryan, who had four hits in his last three games.
The Seattle Mariners have 66 home dates remaining on their schedule.
DENVER – If any team in baseball needed a three-day weekend in Colorado, it was the Seattle Mariners, who now must determine if hitting, pitching – and winning – flew home with them.
DENVER — Jesus Montero and Justin Smoak hit back-to-back home runs, Blake Beavan tied a season-high with seven strikeouts and the Seattle Mariners held on to beat the Colorado Rockies 6-4 on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep.
DENVER – Jason Vargas did a pretty good imitation of Kevin Millwood.