GAME INFORMATION Safeco Field • PO Box 4100 • Seattle, WA 98194 • TEL: 206.346.4000 • FAX: 206.346.4000 •
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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, April 13, 2012 OAKLAND ATHLETICS (3-4) vs. SEATTLE MARINERS (4-4) Game #9 (4-4) Safeco Field RH Bartolo Colon (1-1, 5.84) vs. RH Felix Hernandez (1-0, 4.40) Home #1 (0-0) UPCOMING PROBABLE PITCHERS…all times PDT… Day Date Opp. Time Mariners Pitcher Opposing Pitcher TV Saturday April 14 OAK 6:10 pm RH Hector Noesi (0-1, 21.00) vs. LH Tommy Milone (1-0, 0.00) ROOT Sunday April 15 OAK 1:10 pm RH Blake Beavan (0-1, 1.42) vs. RH Graham Godfrey (0-1, 3.00) ROOT Monday April 16 Off Day Tuesday April 17 CLE 7:10 pm RH Kevin Millwood (0-0, 1.50) vs. RH Justin Masterson (0-1, 2.77) ROOT Wednesday April 18 CLE 7:10 pm LH Jason Vargas (1-1, 3.44) vs. RH Derek Lowe (1-0 +tonight) ROOT Thursday April 19 CLE 7:10 pm RH Felix Hernandez (1-0 + tonight) vs. RH Josh Tomlin (0-1, 7.20) 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 (4-4) return home to host the Oakland A’s in the first of a three- BEST HOME OPENER RECORD ALL-TIME game weekend series at Safeco Field…Mariners also host Cleveland (3 G) and Chicago-AL (3 G) to 1. Toronto Blue Jays 26-10 .722 kick-start the home schedule in a 3-team, 9-game, 10-day homestand…the Mariners just returned 2. New York Yankees 74-36 .673 from a six-game road trip where they went 3-3 against the A’s (2-0) and Rangers (1-3)…tonight’s 3. New York Mets 31-20 .608 4. Seattle Mariners 21-14 .600 game will be televised on ROOT Sports in high definition & broadcast live on 710 ESPN Seattle & Arizona D-backs 9-6 .600 Mariners Radio Network. * NYY & BOS also open home season today SEATTLE LID LIFTERS…the Mariners play their 36th home opener tonight vs. the A’s…Seattle SWITCH HITTERS is 21-14 (.600) all-time in the first home game of the season, the 3rd-best home opener winning Chone Figgins has recorded 1,265 career hits, 12th-most among active percentage in baseball (see list at left)…have won 3 of last 5 home openers, 6 of last 11, and switch hitters: 6-6 in home openers at Safeco Field (since 2000)…also 6-4 in home openers when not opening 1. Omar Vizquel ...................2,841 the season at home…marks the second consecutive home opener to be played at night (previous 2. Chipper Jones .................2,619 before ‘11 was in 2001)…is 16-9 in night home openers, 5-5 during the day…8th time to host the 3. Carlos Beltran .................1,925 4. Jimmy Rollins ..................1,873 A’s in a home opener (5-2, last: 4-0 loss in ‘10)…5th Friday home opener (1-3). 5. Lance Berkman ...............1,828 HOME OPENER HIGHLIGHTS…the Mariners host the A’s in the home opener at Safeco Field 6. Rafael Furcal ...................1,696 7. Mark Teixeira ...................1,472 tonight (7:10 pm)…here are some highlights of the festivities surrounding the 36th home opener: 8. Brian Roberts ..................1,374 • The first King’s Court of the season issold out as Felix Hernandez takes the mound. 9. Jose Reyes ......................1,307 • Opening Night festivities start at 4:40 pm when the gates of Safeco Field open to the general public with 10. Victor Martinez ................1,298 a special countdown at the Home Plate Gate…pre-game festivities begin at 6:30 pm. 11. Orlando Hudson ..............1,269 12. Chone Figgins................1,265 • The National Anthem will be performed by Anna Graceman, a 12-year old singer/songwriter from Juneau, Alaska…Anna was a finalist on America’s Got Talent and is a YouTube sensation. LOT’S OF GREEN & GOLD • A game ball has made a trip around the Northwest where it has been photographed in well-known The Mariners and A’s have shared a lot of “Opening Day” festivities this locations and with noted residents of the region. year…two teams opened Cactus • The annual run-around-the bases will be by Make-A-Wish recipient Olivia Hanstad of Mt. Vernon. League play March 2 in Phoenix, • Former Mariners outfielderMike Cameron will throw out the ceremonial first pitch. …Season Opener in Japan March 28…the 2012 re-opener April 6 in ODDS AND ENDS…the first 11 games of the season will be against AL West division teams (7 vs. Oakland, and now the Mariners OAK, 4 vs. TEX)…Mariners are batting .277 (59x213) over the last 6 games (hit .174 in Japan). home opener in Seattle. • The Mariners finished spring training with a 16-9-1 record (.635), the 12th winning spring in club NOW BATTING 3RD history…3rd-best spring winning pct in club history…see more spring highlights on pgs. 9-10. Ichiro has started all 8 games as the • The Mariners bullpen has allowed 8 HR in 8 games…led the AL for fewest HR allowed last season (32). Mariners No. 3 hitter in the lineup… • Munenori Kawasaki, Lucas Luetge and Erasmo Ramirez have made their MLB debuts this season. entering this season had made 1,720 of 1,733 career starts at leadoff. • Erasmo Ramirez made his MLB debut at 21 years, 343 days 4/9 at Texas…youngest Seattle pitcher at the time of his debut since Ryan Feierabend (21.022 on 9/13/06) and 17th-youngest in club his- THE ROSTER tory…was the youngest player on any MLB Opening Day roster. The current roster includes 12 pitchers, 3 catchers, 7 infielders and 3 • Batting Around -- Sent 10 batters to the plate in the April 7 at OAK (4th) & April 9 at TEX (1st). outfielders… 3 players are also on • Spreading the Wealth -- 4 different pitchers have recorded a win, and 4 have recorded a loss. the DL (Mike Carp, Franklin Gutierrez, • Opening Day -- Seattle has won 6 straight season openers, tied for the longest active streak in MLB. Adam Moore)…the youngest player • Felix Hernandez is 5-0, 1.77 over his last 5 home starts vs. the A’s…7-2 all-time at home vs. A’s. on the roster is RHP Erasmo Ramirez (5/2/90) at 21 years, 11 months+…the SEATTLE VS. ATHLETICS…tonight is already the fifth (3-1) of 19 games between the Mariners and oldest is OF Ichiro Suzuki (10/22/73) A’s in 2012…the Mariners and A’s split a pair of games to open the season in Japan (March 28-29), at 38 years, 5 months+…13 of the 25 active players have less than one and Seattle swept a two-game series to re-open the season April 6-7 in Oakland…Seattle is 56-43 year of MLB service time. vs. Oakland since 2007 (30-19 at home)…Mariners trail the all-time series 220-293, including a 125- ROOKIES ON PARADE 129 mark in Seattle (64-76 at Kingdome, 61-53 at Safeco Field). The Mariners current roster features 7 WHAT A LONG, STRANGE TRIP IT WAS…the Mariners opened spring training a week before rookies: RHP Steve Delabar, RHP Hisashi Iwakuma, LHP Lucas every other MLB team, with pitchers and catchers reporting to Peoria, AZ on Feb. 11…the Mariners Luetge, RHP Erasmo Ramirez, finally returned to Seattle last night after playing 26 spring training games, 2 exhibition games in C/DH Jesus Montero, INF Alex Tokyo and 8 regular season games (including 2 in Japan)…the club has already traveled over 15,000 Liddi & INF Munenori Kawasaki… last season the Mariners used 18 miles through the air, including 11,500 miles round-trip to Japan and nearly 3,800 miles on the rookies, and had a club-record 12 recent road trip from Phoenix-Oakland-Dallas-Seattle. players make their MLB debut. FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH…the Mariners roster was the 2nd-youngest among American League ON THE AIR teams, and 4th-youngest in the Majors on Opening Day…according to STATS Inc., the Mariners had Mariners will again use a rotation of announcers this season, all former an average age of 28.33 when the Opening Day rosters were set, trailing only Kansas City (27.42), partners of HOF announcer Dave Houston (27.82) and Atlanta (28.27)…the Mariners 40-man roster was the 2nd-youngest among AL Niehaus…Rick Rizzs, Dave Sims teams, and 3rd-youngest in the Majors at 26.96, trailing only the Royals (26.83) and Astros (26.87). and Mike Blowers will work nearly all the games, while Ron Fairly, Ken PARASKAVEDEKATRIAPHOBIA…the Mariners are 10-22 all-time on Friday the 13th (including Levine, Ken Wilson, Dave Valle, Dave postseason, 9-21 regular season)…Seattle has dropped 4 of its last 5 games on Friday the 13th… Henderson, Jay Buhner and Dan Wilson will mix in…Rizzs and Dan Seattle has played Oakland three times when the 13th falls on a Friday, losing all three games… Wilson will be in the radio booth this the Mariners have had one previous Friday the 13th home opener, losing 15-7 to the A’s on April series, with Sims and Blowers calling 13, 1990…also play the Rangers on Friday the 13th in July in the first game after the All-Star break.