Holding the Lifering

Mariners keep hope alive with 5-1 win

Posted by on June 19, 2010 at 10:45 pm

Share     The Seattle Mariners beat the Cincinnati Reds 5-1 tonight behind the pitching of Felix Hernandez who went all the way, and home runs from Ichiro and Michael Saunders. The surprising Reds who have been at or near the top of the NL central all year were held to 5 hits and struck-out 9 times [...]

Mariners clip Birds 2-1, fly home after rough road trip

Posted by on June 16, 2010 at 8:29 pm

Share   The Seattle Mariners finished up a rough road trip by containing the St. Louis Cardinals to one run and going on to win the final game of the series 2-1. Jason Vargas was outstanding tonight going 7 2/3 innings and only giving up 5 hits and allowing no walks against a potent Cardinals offense, he [...]

Mariners lose 7-1 as lights grow dimmer

Posted by on June 8, 2010 at 10:37 pm

Share Felix Hernandez still proved he has not fully developed as a pitcher tonight as he gave up 7 runs in 7 innings losing in front of 18,774 Texas Rangers fans tonight. When Hernandez is on it is easy to overlook his brash almost cocky style, when he is facing a lineup like he faced tonight and [...]

Cliff Lee dominates as Mariners win 4-2

Posted by on June 7, 2010 at 8:38 pm

Share Cliff Lee pitched another gem tonight against the Texas Rangers going all nine innings to give the Mariners a 4-2 victory down in Arlington to start a four game series. Don Wakamatsu put  a new fresh lineup on the field tonight batting Chone Figgins at the bottom of the order as well as starting Mike Carp at first. Figgins [...]

Fister proves he is human,Mariners lose 5-4

Posted by on May 31, 2010 at 10:13 pm

Share Doug Fister came into this game tonight with the  best ERA in the AL, but tonight he got tagged for 3 homers by the Minnesota Twins and the Mariners couldn’t quite catch up and lost this one 5-4. The sun came out this afternoon and it was actually pleasant at the Safe when I joined [...]