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James Paxton fanned 10 batters and Kyle Seager hit a go-ahead homer with two outs in the eighth inning as the Mariners held on to beat the Royals 4-2 to wrap up a winning seven-game road trip.

Amazingly, it has been 17 years ago, on this very date, that the baseball world was formally introduced to Ichiro Suzuki.

The Seattle Mariners, behind Nelson Cruz's "Boomstick", rode him and his two mammoth home runs and turned it in to a "BROOMstick" in sweeping aside the Oakland A's by a score of 6-3 in a Wednesday matinee` today.

For long-time Mariners fans, this may seem hard to believe.

Yovani Gallardo pitched into the seventh inning allowing only one run and Taylor Motter along with Nelson Cruz combined for nine RBI as the Seattle Mariners creamed the Oakland A's today 11-1.

Following their sixth-consecutive loss on the road, the Seattle Mariners shook up their roster yesterday.

SEATTLE (AP) — Felix Hernandez made just two mistakes in eight strong innings, Nelson Cruz hit his AL-leading 39th homer and drove in three runs and the Seattle Mariners beat the Oakland Athletics 8-2 on Wednesday. Seattle closed out its brief homestand with Hernandez rebounding after getting knocked around in his last start against the Chicago White Sox...

Lance McCullers may not have made a statement with his pitching, but he sure did with his choice of kicks.