Welcome to baseball season everybody. As I said, I will try to keep up with these, but I can't guarantee I will, so bear with me. The baseball season began in the wee hours of the morning on March 28th, with the Oakland Athletics "hosting" the Seattle Mariners in Tokyo. Felix Hernandez and Brandon McCarthy were the starting pitchers. Dustin Ackley ripped the first home run for Seattle in the top of the fourth, a solo shot. Oakland tied it up in the bottom of the inning with Kurt Suzuki's double, allowing Cliff Pennington to score. The game went into extra innings, and was decided by a pair of singles off the Mariners' bats of Ackley and Ichiro Suzuki, scoring Brendan Ryan and Ackley himself. Brandon League closed out the game for a save, and Tom Wilhelmson was in position for the 3-1 win, while the loss was pinned on Andrew Carignan.
The next day, the two teams went at it again, with Jason Vargas on the hill for Seattle against Oakland's Bartolo Colon. Seattle opened the scoring with a Justin Smoak solo home run in the seventh inning. Oakland shot back with a Yoenis Cespedes homer in the bottom of the inning, a two-run shot also scoring in Kurt Suzuki. The Athletics followed this up with Josh Reddick's one-run homer. Oakland finished ahead 4-1 with an eighth inning Jonny Gomes home run, another solo shot. Colon was credited with the win, while Grant Balfour closed things out for the save, and the loss was pinned on Shawn Kelley.
More baseball action returns next week when everyone else gets their debuts on.
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