Mariners Actually Win a Baseball Game

This Seattlest is not the most baseball-crazed tool in the shed, but we had a damn good time at last night's Mariners vs. Red Sox game.

It started out with the Mariners up by three, until Manny Ramirez clocked a homer for the Sox and evened out the scoreboard. The tie held fast for the last few innings until Jose Lopez's nailbiting hit straight toward third base—at the bottom of the ninth—drove the winning man home.

Walking back to the car, we heard a Mariners fan shout at the throngs of local folks in Sox jerseys, with as much pride as he could muster, "Red Sox...beat by the worst team in the American League!"

It was a great, dramatic end to a rather interesting game. Two Red Sox were ejected in the fifth inning after having words with an official, pointing a finger, and yelling. And then (did we mention yet?) the Mariners won, breaking their embarrassing seven-game losing streak.

Not the stuff of predictable boredom we watched a couple of weeks ago when the White Sox beat the Ms hansomly. Or the trouncing they got last weekend when our Yankees smacked them down 13-2. It may be fleeting, or it may be the beginning of a dramatic upsweep while there's still plenty of time to save themselves this season. Whatever—it was a good game.

That shot of Lopez scoring another winning hit against the Red Sox in another game, courtesy of JFurdell. Thanks!