With five interleague games to go, the Seattle Mariners are 11-2 against the NL West (2-1 vs Dodgers, 3-0 vs Giants, 5-1 vs Padres, 1-0 vs Diamondbacks). Weak Mariners bats are suddenly red-hot. Richie Sexson is off the Mendoza Line. Kenji Johjima is outhitting Albert Pujols. The Mariners are back to .500 after floundering for months. Is this some weird alignment of the planets, or is Seattle for real? Or are the Mariners fattening up on the worst division in baseball? The acid test will be if the Mariners can now take on good AL teams like the Red Sox, Tigers, White Sox, Athletics and Steinbrenners: can they, or is their interleague performace a fluke?
2006-06-27
18:00:23
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BroadwayPhil
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