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Mariners third baseman Adrian Beltre may miss the rest of the season after taking a ground ball to the nuts. Beltre does not wear a protective cup when he plays, he's said it's uncomfortable. Now, though, he's got a bleeding testicle that may need surgery--which would end his season. Beltre becomes the second Mariner in our memory lost to a testicle injury: pitcher Josias Manzanillo, another freeballer, suffered a similar injury in 1997.

Saw Catch Me If You Can over the weekend, and it struck me that the 2009 Mariners are working in a similar way--auditioning players for roles on next season's team while still putting on a professional performance.

They rallied from behind twice, but a three-run Yankee eighth off the usually reliable Sean White put the Mariners away. The Brandon Morrow experiment continued to deliver inconclusive results, with Morrow going just 4.2 IP and walking 5 batters. Chris Woodward, replacing Beltre at 3B, made two errors on the same play on the first ball hit to him. M's 39-37, 3.5 GB. Box score. Next game Wednesday @ NYY, 4:05 p.m.; Washburn vs. Pettitte.

M's Serve Baseball's Best Team; Lose Beltre: The Mariners started their road trip with a surprising 2-1 series win over the Dodgers, who have baseball's best record. The highlight was Felix Hernandez's nine-K performance on Saturday night, with homers by Griffey and Branyan providing the offense. Bad news came that night as well: Adrian Beltre will miss 6-8 weeks, he's getting surgery to remove painful bone spurs in his shoulder.

Until recently, the rabid M's fan blog Lookout Landing sported this tagline: "If You Think Adrian Beltre Is Bad And/Or Overrated, I Hate You And Find You Stupid." Fair enough. Beltre isn't bad or overrated. A Gold Glover and above-average offensive player, he's the best third baseman in Mariner history. He just stinks at the craft of hitting a baseball.

King Felix was amazing, throwing a two-hitter for his third career shutout. Sure, it's San Diego, but this is still the major leagues, folks. Padres starter Kevin Correia wasn't much worse, allowing two hits over eight innings -- but those hits were homers, to Gooters and Beltre. The M's tacked on three more in the ninth, two on a Griffey single. M's 31-33, 5.5 GB. Box score. Next game Weds. @ SD, 7:05 p.m.; Olson vs. Gaudin.

Welcome back, Adrian Beltre! The suddenly hot slugger had all three ribbies: a mammoth two-run homer off the facade of the LF deck in the third inning and a walk-off single in the ninth. Beltre's hitting .368 over the past 13 games. David Aardsma gets the win after pitching a scoreless ninth, but Jason Vargas is the real moundsman of note, pitching into the sixth and allowing only two runs despite some iffy M's fielding. Ichiro extended his franchise-record hitting streak to 27 games with a single in the third. Box score. Next game Friday vs. MIN, 7:10 p.m.; King Felix vs. Francisco Liriano.

Erik Bedard and Adrian Beltre will probably be traded by July 31. Hopefully, Jarrod Washburn will go as well. They don’t even have to trade him; they can just leave him behind the counter at a Panda Express, or pretend to throw a tennis ball and drive off when he tries to find it.

Not since September 2003 have the M's been in a 2nd vs. 1st division battle this late in the year.

Mariano Rivera--a sure first-ballot Hall-of-Famer and perhaps the best relief pitcher of all time, has now allowed only 47 homers in his career. Which team has hit more of those than any other? After Adrian Beltre's game-winning Funk Blast last night, your Seattle Mariners have 7, tied with the Orioles as the most homerin-off-Mo teams in baseball.

Vitals: 26 yo RHP. Born in New Castle, PA. 6-0, 170. This will be his first major league game. (3-0, 1.05 at AAA in 2007)

--Who's more depraved? Wisconsinites or Washingtonians? Guess it depends on whether you think getting the d from a horse is worse than giving the d to a dead deer.

10. Mariners vs Yankees (August 22): The Yankees kept taking the lead and the Mariners kept coming back. In the ninth, with the score tied 5-5, A-Rod came up with a clutch bases loaded strike out. Later that inning Adrian Beltre won the game on a walk off home run.

The thirtieth edition of our local professional baseball club ended their campaign yesterday afternoon with a 3-2 win over Texas. They finished in last place (a-GAIN!) and with a 78-84 record.

Yuniesky Betancourt and his nine career home runs now anchor the Mariners' lineup. For the past two games, manager Mike Hargrove's been batting him third.

Last night we found a way to enjoy a Mariners game-- get red-ass drunk and scream at the players for three hours.

Mariners franchise wins leader Jamie Moyer, who is apparently as discardable as a day-old croissant, beat the Cubs last night and became the oldest Phillie pitcher to win a game (Moyer's 43).

If it's true that Adrian Beltre is the Padres' #1 trading target, as the normally trustworthy Ken Rosenthal reports, we can only assume that the Mariners aren't pulling the trigger because they are too busy doing this or this or this to celebrate their good fortune.

The Mariners play a children's game called "Flip" before they play each baseball game. In Flip you use your glove, hands and feet to pass a baseball around a circle. If you permit the ball to hit the ground, you're out.

Something happened yesterday that hasn't since April 16th. No, not Dino Rossi waking up before noon, but the Mariners getting to .500. After an 11-7 victory over Arizona in their 78th game, the M's are once again treading water at 39-39.

Mike Hargrove cost the Mariners a win on Friday night, but you wouldn't know it from reading the local papers.

The Times asked Adrian Beltre if he's ever used steroids. While he didn't stare into a camera and point his finger, he did protest much.

Mariner Manager Mike Hargrove deviated from his heretofore stone-set lineup yesterday, moving Adrian Beltre into the #2 spot and sliding Jose Lopez to #3. Richie Sexson sat in favor of Roberto Petagine.

We've been looking for a quote from a famous literary figure to sum up the Mariners' season.

What kind of bullshit is this? Maxim magazine ranks the worst managers in baseball and orders Dusty Baker the worst, Ron Gardenhire the second worst and our own Mike Hargrove the third worst. C'mon, Gardenhire is a way better manager than Hargrove. Mike should be at least second and we could even forgive the voting panel for favoring him with a few first place votes over Baker. With a lineup featuring the decaying corpse of Sexson, the crusty shell of Beltre, Ichiro and...uh... With a lineup featuring Sexson, Beltre and Ichiro Hargrove has backhoed the Mariners into a grudge match for last place with the Angels and a 15-21 record. If things continue on this way, and there hasn't been a lot to indicate that they won't, .500 is going to start waving hankies and calling out "bon voyage" at the Mariners because this could be the closest they'll get for awhile. Like sometime in 2007 a while. They're seriously one more injury to a key mediocre player who's been playing beneath himself away from dipping down into Kansas City Royals territory in the ESPN Power Rankings.

Here's how bad it's gotten for the Mariners' $15 million flop, Adrian Beltre:

The Mariners continued their season-long 26th anniversary tribute to former shortstop Mario Mendoza last night, managing nine mostly groundball singles in a 2-0 loss to Cleveland.

Before yesterday's game, seven Mariners of Latino descent asked for a private meeting with manager Mike Hargrove. Inside his office, they told Hargrove that, to show solidarity with immigration rights marchers, they were sitting out Monday's game against Minnesota.

It's the earliest first pitch in Mariner history today, as the M's play the annual Patriots Day game in Boston. It's an 11am start in Boston, so 8am here.

Rainier Beach, Seattlest's favorite high school hoops team, got upset in the state quarterfinals last night, by Lynden High. But, really, what chance did they stand against a team that has players with names like Dirk Dallas and Brady Bomber. Dallas had 19 points, Bomber had 15. Is this a high school basketball team or a 30's detective novel?