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The Mariners and Yankees have played some outstanding games here over the years; below we present part one of our top ten. Historic, surprising, violent, record-breaking--the list has it all. We're giving you #6-10 today, with the top five coming tomorrow

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.

Erik Bedard returns to the Mariners rotation on Tuesday, having missed the last month with a sore shoulder (according to team doctors--some of our Mariner fan friends contend that the oft-injured Bedard has a sore part of the female anatomy.) Bedard's return takes up a spot in the five-man starting rotation, meaning somebody's headed to the bullpen or, worse yet, back to traveling coach class with the AAA Tacoma Rainiers. Ew.

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.

Franklin Gutierrez' solo homer in the eight breaks a 3-3 tie, as the M's are victorious for the first time in a Brandon Morrow start. The bullpen pitched four scoreless; Aardsma saves it, starting the ninth by striking out Adrian Gonzalez swinging on a mid-90s fastball. Russell Branyan's 18th homer provided the other three runs. Bad news: B'court left the game with an apparent muscle strain. M's 36-35, 2.5 GB. Box score. Next game Thu vs. SD, 1:40 p.m., Washburn vs. LeBlanc.

The M's finish their nine-game road trip 4-5 after letting the Padres only decent hitter, Adrian Gonzalez, record a four hit day and score the winning run after a two-out double. Brandon Morrow pitched respectably, throwing four innings and walking only one hitter; but this was the Padres. Gooters had two homers, the first multiple HR game of his career. M's 32-34, 5.5 GB. Box score. Next game Fri. vs. ARI, 7:10 p.m.; Washburn vs. Garland.

Another day of being outperformed by Rockies' pitchers, and not in moundsmanship. Jason Marquis made a acrobatic throw home on a grounder to cut down what would've been the M's first run, then drew a bases-loaded walk from Morrow to get the Rockies' first. (Morrow: 3 IP, 4 BB, 3 H. Back to AAA, fine friend.) Then, after Lopez tied the game in the eighth with a homer, two Mark Lowe throwing errors helped the Rockies go back on top to stay. M's 30-32, 5.5 GB. Box score. Next game Sun @ COL, 12:10 p.m.; Vargas vs. Hammel.

Maybe Brandon Morrow isn't really a player. Maybe he was this experimental comedian at Cal and convinced the Mariners that they should draft him, and then spend the next twenty years switching him back and forth between the bullpen and rotation.

A truly horrific performance by the Mariner "offense," which is succeeding only in offending its fans. Got this text midway through the game: "HIT THE BALL!" Orioles starter Bergesen, who started the season with a loss to the Durham Bulls, shut the M's out for eight innings. The only bright spots: Ichiro, predictably, who had two hits, and Brandon Morrow, who threw 2.1 scoreless in relief. Box score. Next game Weds. @ BAL, King Felix vs. Jeremy Guthrie.

No, no, no, no, no, no, NO! M's lose on a walkoff homer for the second game in a row! Morrow--twice the victim--ought to lose his closer's role, as the Mariners have gone from red hot to ice cold. Box score. Next game Friday vs. Boston, 7:10 p.m.; Chris Jakubauskas vs. Jon Lester.

Memories of the '90s: Griffey hits a clutch homer, and a frightening bullpen nearly gives the lead over. Four in the eighth--two on Griffey's blast--led the M's back, and Morrow held the Twins off though his control was real whack. Box score. Next game Tuesday @ Texas, 5:05 p.m., Jason Vargas vs. Scott Feldman.

Former Husky and Renton Liberty hurler Tim Lincecum was named the National League's Cy Young award winner today. In 2008, Lincecum was 18-5 with the San Francisco Giants. In the 2006 draft, the Mariners passed on Lincecum, opting to select Brandon Morrow instead.

Got an email from a friend the other day: "My boss says he's officially back on the Mariners bandwagon."

We were frickin' *there* so we speak some from authority on this subject--the key at bat of tonight's 5-2 Mariner win (even bigger than Sexson's funk blast) was Brandon Morrow facing Jermaine Dye with one on and two out in the eighth.

M's are 2-0 to start the season for the first time since 1996.

USS Mariner called Mike Hargrove "delusional" today for his advocacy of going north with 22-year-old pitcher Brandon Morrow on the basis of eight innings of spring training relief work.

It was the spring of 1989, and Ken Griffey Jr., a 19-year-old with 61 at bats above A-ball, embarrassed Cactus League pitchers and made the Mariners.

There's controversy rumbling in the underbelly of Mariner fandom, about whether the team passed over a pitcher named Andrew Miller in last week's draft because they felt he'd want more money than is allowed under "slotting," a Bud Selig brainchild meant to reduce signing bonuses.

1) Why did Brandon Morrow, the M's first pick (#5 overall) in yesterday's draft, mysteriously gain five MPH on his fastball last summer, just before the season when he could be drafted?

Pass on local boys Tim Lincecum and Travis Snider, instead selecting RHP Brandon Morrow from Cal, who supposedly throws 99 mph. Watch video of him here.