Post-Game Notes

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SEATTLE MARINERS 6 (18-20), OAKLAND ATHLETICS 1 (19-20)

Sunday, May 12, 2013 Safeco Field
FINAL 1 0 Oakland Athletics 3 Seattle Mariners First Pitch: 1:11 pm 2 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 1 Time of Game: 2:40 5 0 1 6 7 8 9 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 x Temp: 68/ SW @ 2 MPH R H E LOB 1 6 0 8 6 8 1 6 Attendance: 27,599

WP: Joe Saunders (3-4, 5.51) LP: Tommy Milone (3-5, 3.71) SV: None
HOME RUNS: Kendrys Morales Jason Bay PITCHING LINES: OAKLAND Tommy Milone (L) Pat Neshek Jerry Blevins Jesse Chavez SEATTLE Joe Saunders (W) Yoervis Medina Oliver Perez NO. 4 4 PITCHER Tommy Milone Jerry Blevins INN. 1 7 MOB 2 0 OUT 0 1 COUNT 2-0 3-1 DISTANCE/FIELD 385/LF 409/CF

IP 5.0 1.0 1.0 1.0 IP 6.1 1.2 1.0

H 6 0 1 1 H 5 1 0

R 5 0 1 0 R 1 0 0

ER 5 0 1 0 ER 1 0 0

BB-I 3-1 0-0 0-0 1-0 BB-I 3-0 0-0 0-0

SO 4 1 1 2 SO 6 1 3

HR 1 0 1 0 HR 0 0 0

WP 1 0 0 0 WP 0 0 0

HB 0 0 0 0 HB 0 0 0

BK 0 0 0 0 BK 0 0 0

PITCHES/STRIKES 90/55 11/8 14/10 21/15 PITCHES/STRIKES 104/62 21/13 12/10

ATHLETICS NOTES: Tommy Milone recorded his 5th loss, allowing 5 earned runs on 6 hits while striking out 4 and walking 3 in 5.0 innings. Jed Lowrie (1x4, 1 1B) extended his hitting streak to 5 games with a 7th inning single to right fieldis batting .350 (7x20) with 2 2B, 3 RBI, and 1 BB during the streak. Josh Donaldson (1x4, 1R, 1 2B) is now batting .352 (25x71) with 11 R, 9 2B, 3 HR, 17 RBI, and 13 BB over his past 20 games, dating back to 4/22. Yoenis Cespedes (1x4, 1 1B) snapped a career-high 0-for-16 streak with a 3rd inning single to center field. Cespedes last recorded a hit on 05/08 @ CLE in the 9th inning. Pat Neshek pitched 1.0 innings of scoreless relief, striking out 1 and walking none...has not allowed a run in 10 of his past 12 outings. MARINERS NOTES: With the win, the Mariners have now won 6 of 9, 9 of 13 and 10 of past 15 gamesalso have won 8 of past 11 home games (11-9 overall at Safeco Field)are now 4-0-1 in their past 5 seriesare 8-1 when scoring 5+ runs this season. Joe Saunders recorded his 3rd win, allowing 1 earned run on 5 hits while striking out 6 and walking 3is now 3-0 with a 0.94 ERA (3 ER, 28.2 IP) in 4 starts this season at Safeco Fieldis 9-0 with a 1.72 ERA (16 ER, 83.2 IP) in 13 career starts at Safeco Fieldimproved to 14-6, 3.47 ERA (51 ER, 132.1 IP) in 22 career starts vs. Oakland. Jason Bay (2x4, 1 R, 1 1B, 1 HR, 1 RBI) is now batting .361 (13x36) with 3 2B, 3 HR, 5 RBI, and 4 BB vs. LHP this season. (3 of his 4 HR this season have come against LHP). Michael Saunders (2x4, 2 R, 2 1B) has reached base safely in 16 of 20 games, including hits in 13 of 20 gamesis now batting .333 (9x27) with 1 2B, 1 3B, 2 HR and 7 RBI vs. LHP this season has both of the Mariners bunt hits this season (other: May 1 vs. Baltimore). Kendrys Morales (1x4, 1 R, 1 HR, 3 RBI) is batting .324 (11x34) with 6 R, 3 2B, 1 HR, 7 RBI, 2 BB in his past 9 games, dating back to 4/30hit his first home run since 4/23 @ HOU has homered in back-to-back seasons on Mothers Day. Yoervis Medina pitched 1.2 scoreless innings of reliefhas now stranded 7 of 9 inherited runners in 8 appearances. Oliver Perez struck out the side in a perfect 9th inninghas not allowed a run in 12 of 14 appearances. Kyle Seager (0x2, 1 R, 1 RBI, 1 BB) has drawn a walk in 3 consecutive games (5th time in his career with 3 straight games with a BB)has now walked 5 times in his past 3 games. Justin Smoak (0x3, 1 BB) has now reached base safely in 14 of his past 15 games, including hits in 11 of his past 15 games, batting .306 (15x49) with 7 runs scored, 5 doubles, 1 home run, 3 RBI, and 13 walks, dating back to 4/22 has recorded 9 walks over his last 8 games. NEXT GAME Seattle Mariners vs. New York Yankees - Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 4:05 pm PT (ROOT Sports) RHP Felix Hernandez (5-2, 1.53) vs. LHP C.C. Sabathia (4-3, 3.23)

Post-Game Quotes
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ATHLETICS MANAGER BOB MELVIN: On whether he felt like the game was essentially over after the 1st inning: Well, it feels that way when youre not getting any hits and youre not getting any opportunities, and you just shut down. Its not for a lack of effort. Guys are still fighting and trying. When you dont get anything, it feels that way. On summing up the entire road-trip: It didnt work out how we would have liked after New York. On how much of an impact all of the Athletics injuries has had on their play: Im aware of that. It gives other guys opportunities to perform. There are other teams that have injuries too. We have to grind through it. We have to find ways to win some games and then get our guys back. Thats what were trying to do right now. You cant look back and make excuses based on the personnel you have. On what he saw that was going on with Milone in the 1st inning: Saunders has a good at-bat, gets a hit. Then, [Milone] gets Bay out. I think the Seager at-bat was probably the one that got him in the wrong direction, and then, Morales hits a decent pitch thats down for a 3-0 lead, and that was the biggest at-bats of the game. But I think that putting the second guy on, even though from our angle, it looks like theyre close pitches, Tommy typically pitches to the corners, maybe they were just off. And Morales has the impact at-bat of the game.