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GAME INFORMATION Safeco Field • PO Box 4100 • Seattle, WA 98194 • TEL: 206.346.4000 • FAX: 206.346.4000 • www.mariners.com Tuesday, April 17, 2012 CLEVELAND INDIANS (4-4) vs. SEATTLE MARINERS (6-5) Game #12 (6-5) Safeco Field RH Justin Masterson (0-1, 2.77) vs. RH Kevin Millwood (0-0, 1.50) Home #4 (2-1) UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS…all times PDT… Day Date Opp. Time Mariners Pitcher Opposing Pitcher TV Wednesday April 18 CLE 7:10 pm LH Jason Vargas (1-1, 3.44) vs. RH Derek Lowe (2-0, 1.98) ROOT Thursday April 19 CLE 7:10 pm RH Felix Hernandez (1-1, 3.80) vs. RH Josh Tomlin (0-1, 8.31) ROOT Friday April 20 CWS 7:10 pm RH Hector Noesi (1-1, 5.73) vs. LH Chris Sale (1-1, 3.09) ROOT Saturday April 21 CWS 1:05 pm RH Blake Beavan (1-1, 2.70) vs. RH Philip Humber (0-0, 1.69) FOX Sunday April 22 CWS 1:10 pm RH Kevin Millwood (0-0, +tonight) vs. LH John Danks (1-1, +tonight) ROOT All games broadcast on 710 ESPN Seattle & Mariners Radio Network Spanish Audio available for all home games, presented by ROOT SPORTS via SAP (where available) TONIGHT’S TILT…the Mariners (6-5) host the Cleveland Indians in the fi rst of a three-game weekday HIGHEST CAREER AVG VS. CLE Among active players, Ichiro has third series at Safeco Field…won 2 of 3 from Oakland Athletics over the weekend...Mariners also host highest batting average by active Chicago-AL (3 G) to complete 3-team, 9-game, 10-day homestand (2-1)…the Mariners recently player against Indians (min. 150 AB): returned from a six-game road trip where they went 3-3 against the A’s (2-0) and Rangers (1-3)… 1. Mark Kotsay ..........349/59x169 tonight’s game will be televised on ROOT Sports in high defi nition & broadcast live on 710 ESPN 2. Joe Mauer ...........346/110x318 Seattle & Mariners Radio Network. 3. Ichiro .................344/137x398 4. Derek Jeter ..........340/171x503 ODDS AND ENDS… 5. Miguel Cabrera ......336/98x292 • The Mariners fi nished spring training with a 16-9-1 record (.635), the 12th winning spring in club FAMILIAR FACES history…3rd-best spring winning pct in club history. Six players on the Indians roster • The Mariners bullpen has allowed 9 HR in 11 games…led AL for fewest HR allowed last season (32). have spent time in the Mariners • Munenori Kawasaki, Lucas Luetge and Erasmo Ramirez have made their MLB debuts this season. organization including RH Derek Lowe, INFs Asdrubal Cabrera, • Erasmo Ramirez made his MLB debut at 21 years, 343 days 4/9 at Texas…youngest Seattle pitcher Jack Hannahan, Casey Kotchman, at the time of his debut since Ryan Feierabend (21.022 on 9/13/06) and 17th-youngest in club his- Jose Lopez & OF Shin-Soo Choo. tory…was the youngest player on any MLB Opening Day roster. • Batting Around -- Sent 10 batters to the plate in the April 7 at OAK (4th) & April 9 at TEX (1st). ICHIRO 3+ HIT GAMES Ichiro recorded his 223rd career game • Opening Day -- Seattle has won 6 straight season openers, tied for the longest active streak in MLB. with 3 or more hits last Monday (3x5) • The Mariners are 5-0 when out-hitting their opponent…recorded 10+ hits in 4 of last 9 games. at Texas…ranks 3rd among active • Road Warriors -- 18 of fi rst 27 (and 28 of fi rst 43) Mariners games will be played on the road. players in that category, trailing only Derek Jeter (265) and Alex Rodriguez SEATTLE VS. THE INDIANS…tonight is the 1st of 8 meetings between the Indians and Mariners (232)…754 multi-hit games rank 4th this season…Mariners lost the 2011 season series 4-5 but won the last three and four of last fi ve... among active players (tops since his won three of four Aug. 22-24 (double-header on the 23rd) and won 1-game series Sept. 19 in debut in ‘01) and 47 4+ hit games lead all active players. Cleveland…Seattle is 158-201 all-time vs. the Indians, including going 80-98 in Seattle (21-32 at Safeco Field)…Seattle has lost 10 of last 12 at Safeco Field (since July 19, 2008)...Mariners have SWITCH HITTERS Chone Figgins has recorded 1,266 won 13 of last 19 games in Cleveland, and posted a winning record there three straight seasons. career hits, 12th-most among active UH OH, NOT THIS GUY AGAIN…Kyle Seager certainly had his way with the Indians in his four switch hitters: games in Cleveland last season...in those four games he hit .706 (12x17) with 6 runs, 5 doubles, 1 1. Omar Vizquel ...................2,841 home run, 3 RBI and a walk...he recorded multi-hit games in all four and 3+ hit games in three of 2. Chipper Jones .................2,620 3. Carlos Beltran .................1,928 four...against tonight’s starter Justin Masterson, he is batting .750 (3x4) with a double. 4. Jimmy Rollins ..................1,879 CLEVELAND ROCKED…as you know, Kyle Seager was very productive against Cleveland last 5. Lance Berkman ...............1,828 6. Rafael Furcal ...................1,697 year, but so was the rest of the current roster...the current roster combined to hit .297 (58x195) with 7. Mark Teixeira ...................1,477 34 runs, 10 doubles, 1 triple, 6 home runs, 27 RBI and 12 walks...Seager (.706/12x17), Alex Liddi 8. Brian Roberts ..................1,374 (.500/2x4), Ichiro (.325/13x40), John Jaso (.313/5x16) and Dustin Ackley (.300/6x20) all hit at least 9. Jose Reyes ......................1,310 10. Victor Martinez ................1,298 .300 against Cleveland in 2011. 11. Orlando Hudson ..............1,270 STARTERS HEATING UP...Seattle starters have tossed at least 7.0 innings in each of last three 12. Chone Figgins................1,266 games (Felix Hernandez, Hector Noesi, Blake Beavan), Mariners had not tossed at least 7.0 NOW BATTING 3RD innings in three straight games since 4-game streak June 29-July 3, 2011...starters combined to Ichiro has started all 11 games as the Mariners No. 3 hitter in the lineup… go 2-1, 2.05 ERA (5 ER, 22.0 IP) with 16 strikeouts during the recently completed 3-game series entering this season had made 1,720 vs. A’s...over the last 6 starts, they have a 2.41 ERA (11 ER, 41.0 IP) with 32 strikeouts, averaging of 1,733 career starts at leadoff. 6.8 innings per start and allowed 1 earned run or less in three starts, 2 or less in four starts...Seattle ROOKIES ON PARADE starters lead the Majors with 70.0 innings (Oakland, 69.1). The Mariners current roster features 7 TOM TERRIFIC...reliever Tom Wilhelmsen has appeared in 6 of the Mariners fi rst 11 games, rookies: RHP Steve Delabar, RHP Hisashi Iwakuma, LHP Lucas including 5 games against Oakland…has allowed just one run in 7.2 innings this season, and in his Luetge, RHP Erasmo Ramirez, last 22 relief appearances (since Aug. 18, 2011) he is 3-0, 1.63 ERA (5 ER, 27.2 IP) with 28 strikeouts C/DH Jesus Montero, INF Alex while limiting opponents to a .140 (13x93) batting average. Liddi & INF Munenori Kawasaki… last season the Mariners used 18 PRECISION CONTROL...Blake Beavan earned the win Sunday, allowing three runs and no walks rookies, and had a club-record 12 in seven innings, as the Mariners defeated the Athletics 5-3...Beavan has now issued just 16 walks players make their MLB debut. in 110.1 innings in his 17 Major League starts...our friends at the Elias Sports Bureau tell us that the ON THE AIR last pitcher to pitch that many innings while walking that few batters in his fi rst 17 starts was Roy Mariners will again use a rotation of Oswalt (113.2 IP, 15 BB) in 2001. announcers this season, all former partners of HOF announcer Dave STERLING SAFECO DEBUT...Hector Noesi made his Safeco Field debut Saturday night and Niehaus…Rick Rizzs, Dave Sims tossed 8.0 shutout innings…he is just the second Mariners pitcher (12th overall) to toss at least and Mike Blowers will work nearly all the games, while Ron Fairly, Ken 8.0 innings and not allow a run in his Safeco Field debut...joins Felix Hernandez who made his SF Levine, Ken Wilson, Dave Valle, Dave debut on Aug. 9, 2005 & tossed 8.0 scoreless in Seattle’s 1-0 win over Minnesota ...the 10 non- Henderson, Jay Buhner and Dan Mariners to turn the trick (in alphabetical order): J. Fogg, COL (9.0 IP, 6/30/06); R. Johnson ARIZ (9.0 Wilson will mix in…Rizzs and Dan Wilson will be in the radio booth this IP, 7/20/99); J. Kennedy, TB (9.0 IP, 5/21/02); J. Lackey, LAA (8.0 IP, 7/26/02); P. Martinez, BOS (8.0 series, with Sims and Blowers calling IP, 9/4/99); C. Pavano, NYY (9.0 IP, 5/17/05); J. Peavy, SD (8.0 IP, 6/28/03); K. Rogers, TEX (9.0 IP, the action on TV. 4/19/02); K. Saarloos, OAK (9.0 IP, 6/23/05); S. Sparks, DET (9.0 IP, 8/15/2000)...credit: STATS, Inc. MARINERS BLOG THIS DATE IN MARINERS HISTORY...on April 17, 1997 Ken Griffey Jr. hit a home run in an 8-6 You can follow all the Mariners news win at Detroit, tying his own club record with 8 home runs in the month of April...Griffey went on to on our new blog, From the Corner of Edgar & Dave…blog posts will hit a then MLB record, 13 home runs in month of April en route to a career-high 56 dingers.