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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 Friday, May 4, 2012 MINNESOTA TWINS (6-18) at SEATTLE MARINERS (11-16) Game #28 (11-16) Safeco Field RH Carl Pavano (1-2, 4.91) vs. LH Jason Vargas (3-2, 3.38) Home #10 (3-6) UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS…all times PDT… Day Date Opp. Time Mariners Pitcher Opposing Pitcher TV Saturday May 5 MIN 6:10 pm RH Felix Hernandez (2-1, 2.23) vs. RH Jason Marquis (2-0, 6.23) ROOT Sunday May 6 MIN 1:10 pm RH Hector Noesi (1-3, 7.83) vs. RH Nick Blackburn (0-3, 6.64) 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 begin a 2-team, 6-game homestand against the Minnesota Twins HOMESTAND HIGHLIGHTS TONIGHT: Smoakamotive Train Night... (3G) and Detroit Tigers (3G)...just completed a 10-day, 3-city, 10-game road trip through Detroit SAT: College Night & Salute to Kids (3-0), Toronto (1-2) and Tampa Bay (0-4)…tonight’s game will be televised on ROOT Sports in high Day - Dustin Ackley T-Shirts...SUN: defi nition & broadcast live on 710 ESPN Seattle & Mariners Radio Network. Little League Day - Brandon League Poster & Senior Special Day...MON: ODDS AND ENDS…Seattle has dropped six straight after winning four in a row...6-11 in last 17 G. BECU Family Night...TUE: Military • The Mariners are 8-3 when out-hitting their opponent…10-4 when scoring 4+ runs. Special Night...WED: Early Mother’s • Road Warriors -- 18 of fi rst 27 (and 28 of fi rst 43) Mariners games will be played on the road. Day Celebration - Mariners Necklace & Grand Slam Family Package Night. • Sent 10+ batters to the plate 3 times: 4/7 @OAK (10), 4/9 @TEX (10) & 4/17 vs. CLE (11). • On April 17 vs. CLE Kyle Seager collected franchise hit #50,000 and Justin Smoak scored run #25,000. VOTE NOW, VOTE OFTEN • Kawasaki, Luetge, Ramirez and Iwakuma have made their Major League debuts this season. All-Star Balloting has begun throughout the ballpark & on Mariners.com/ • Erasmo Ramirez, 22, made his MLB debut at 21 years, 343 days 4/9 at Texas…was the youngest Vote...fans can vote in park through player on any MLB Opening Day roster. June 17 & online through June 28... • In 10 career G at catcher, Jesus Montero is batting .432 (16x37) w/2 HR, 10RBI. fans voting 20+ times could win All- Star Club tickets & Felix Hernandez SEATTLE VS. TWINS…tonight is the 1st of 10 games between the Mariners & Twins this season, autographed ball. and the 1st of 6 games here in Seattle…Mariners won the season series 5-3 in 2011 including a TRAIN NIGHT split in Seattle May 16-17...Mariners lead the all-time series 203-194-1, but are 110-86 in Seattle, Seattle is 5-7 all-time on train night... including 35-25 at Safeco Field. won last year, snapping a 6-game train night losing streak...won four PAVANO VS. MARINERS...the Mariners on the active roster are hitting a combined .310 (18x58) of the fi rst give train nights (since with 5 doubles, 1 home run and 3 RBI against tonight’s starter Carl Pavano...Chone Figgins & 2000)...hitters on their train night Ichiro are hitting combined .324 (11x34) against Pavano...Kevin Millwood is 1x4 w/ 2B against him. are a combine .357 (5x14)...Edgar Martinez did not play on his night POWER PLAY...the Mariners have hit 14 home runs in the last 10 games since April 24...in that in 2002. span, they rank 1st in the American League and 2nd in the Major Leagues in home runs...Colorado ALL-TIME HITS LIST leads with 16, Rays & Blue Jays are T3rd in MLB with 13...Seattle has homered in 8 of last 10 games. 97. Ted Simmons .....................2472 JUST A FEW MORE...the Mariners lost three of the four games against Tampa by one run and all 98. Joe Medwick ...................... 2471 99. Frank Thomas ....................2468 four by two or less (5 total)...have lost fi ve of their last six one-run games and are 3-6 in one-run 100. Harry Hooper ..................... 2466 games this year...17 of the Mariners 27 games this season have been decided by three runs or less. 101. Ichiro Suzuki .....................2463 102. Jeff Kent ............................. 2461 BACKSTOP BATS...Mariners catchers are T2nd in the Major Leagues with six home runs...Miguel 103. Ozzie Smith ........................2460 Olivo and Jesus Montero each have 3 home runs as a catcher...Seattle catchers are hitting OUTFIELD ASSISTS SINCE 2001 combined .307 (31x101) with 12 runs, 6 doubles, 6 home runs, 15 RBI & lead the Majors with .554 1. Jeff Francoeur ......................101 slugging percentage...Montero is hitting .464 (13x28) with 5 runs, 2 doubles, 3 home runs, 8 RBI & 2. Ichiro Suzuki .........................99 1.393 OPS as catcher. 3. Carlos Beltran ........................98 4. Bobby Abreu ..........................92 IT WAS ONLY MATTER OF TIME...Ichiro is batting .367 (18x49) over his last 11 games, a stretch GRASS STAINS WELCOMED that includes seven multi-hit games...the offensive run raised his average from .266 to .310. Seattle just fi nished going 1-6 in Toronto CAN HE WEAR GREY’S AT HOME?...Jesus Montero recorded a career-high four hits Tuesday and Tampa Bay as part of the recent against Tampa Bay and on this road trip is hitting .371 (13x35) with 5 runs, 1 double, 2 home runs road trip, all on artifi cial turf and are 2-7 off of grass (9-9 on grss)...split a and 5 RBI, slugging .571...overall on the road this season is batting .333 (20x60) with a .450 slugging pair of games on turf against Oakland percentage...at home is batting .207 (6x29) with 3 extra-base hits. at the Tokyo Dome...were 0-6 on turf in 2011, 3-6 in 2010, 5-8 in 2009 and RIGHT GOES WRONG...the Mariners have lost each of their last fi ve games against right-handed have not had winning record on the starters and 11 of the last 16 overall against righties...began season 3-1 vs. right handed chuckers... fake stuff since going 10-5 in 2003. faced right-hander in 7 of 10 games on recent trip and will faced RH the next three games. MIS(P)ING IN ACTION I GOT IT!...Wednesday Ichiro set Mariners club record he previously shared by recording 10 putouts Seattle did not have a hit in 30 at-bats (spanning 4 G April 28-May 1) with in RF in 9.0 inning game...previous record, eight, done fi ve times (last: Ichiro, July 22, 2010 vs. OAK). runners in scoring position...the SILVER BULLET...Kyle Seager went 3-for-4 with a career-high two home runs and four RBI Mariners were off to a solid start Wednesday...it was the Mariners second multi-home run game of the season (last: Michael batting .291 (25x86) with men in scoring position through the fi rst 12 Saunders, 4/27 at TOR)...Seager’s last multi-HR game came on May 13, 2011 with Double-A Jackson. games of the season…over last 15 ALL OR NOTHING...19 of last 26 runs scored by Seatle have come via home run in last 8 games...13 games batting just .170 (24x141) with 8 extra base hits (34 K, 4 GDP) consecutive runs April 27-May2 came via HR, T2nd longest in club history: Michael Saunders with MISP. grand slam 4/27 at Toronto & solo home runs on April 29 (Figgins, Olivo), April 30 (Olivo, Montero), IRON MEN May 1 (Saunders), May 2 (Seager-3R, Seager solo)...scored 3 runs yesterday, none via HR. The Mariners are in the 11th game (4-6) RARE LEFTY LINEUP...the Mariners rolled out a lineup yesterday that featured seven left-handed of playing a game in 16 consecutive days…following an “off day” on May hitters and two switch-hitters...was only the third time in club history that the Mariners featured an 10, which will actually be a travel all left-sided lineup...others are August 13, 1983 at California & August 9, 1983 at Oakland. day from Seattle to New York, the ... was 4-for-4 Tuesday, the 20th Mariners rookie & 33rd time in Mariners will play in 20 consecutive FOUR OF A KIND Jesus Montero days making for a 37-day stretch club history that a rookie has recorded 4+ hits (last: 5, Mike Carp, 9/20/11 vs. MIN). with 36 games. DOUBLE DUERR...Kyle Duerr Seager has 7 doubles this season and has 20 doubles in his fi rst COOL HAND LUCAS 75 Major League games, the 2nd most in club history through 75 behind Rod Craig who had 23 Lucas Luetge has not allowed an doubles between 1979 & 1980...Kyle has more doubles in fi rst 75 than Jose Lopez (19, 2004-05), ER in his fi rst 11 Major League appearances (7.1 IP)...fi rst Mariner Danny Tartabull (18, 1984-86), Greg Briley (18, 1988-89), Ichiro (17, 2001), Jeremy Reed (17, since Mark Lowe (13 appearances, 2004-05) & Ivan Calderon (17, 1984-85)...Craig went double-less in fi nal 16 G of 1980 so Mariners 17.2 IP) to open MLB career with record through half a season (81 G) is 23....extrapolated over 162-game schedule, Seager would be 0.00 ERA in fi rst 11 games of Major on pace for 44 doubles.