(38-58) 20 games under

The Mariners climbed there way back to 20 games under .500 with a win Friday night. King Felix pitched 6 innings, struck out 8, and only allowed 2 runs on 4 hits. Manager Riggleman seems to have him on a pitch count because he only threw 98 pitches but said that the pitch count watch will be off for his next start.

From ESPN
After Jamie
Burke singled with two outs, Aaron
Laffey (5-6) hit No. 9 hitter Yuniesky
Betancourt with a pitch after getting ahead in the count 0-2. Ichiro
Suzuki's groundball would have ended the inning if it hadn't hit off the
glove of shortstop Jhonny
Peralta for an error that loaded the bases. Laffey then walked Willie
Bloomquist on four pitches to force in Burke with the game's first run.
"Errors are going to happen, but as a pitcher you've got to handle it,"
Indians manager Eric Wedge said.
Ibanez then muscled a 88 mph fastball deep
into the right-field bleachers for his sixth career grand slam.

What really pisses me off is that none of these games count anymore. The Mariners really need to start trading stars. Starting with Eric Bedard. Bedard is a piece of work. He isn't durable, and this is another Bavasi trade that doesn't make sense. It never made sense! If Bavasi did his home work; he would have seen that Bedard was never durable and averaged around 103 pitches for his work in Baltimore.