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Mariners sitting atop AL West as optimism grows
By TIM BOOTH
Associated Press
SEATTLE — When
new general manager Jerry
Dipoto went about rebuilding
the Seattle Mariners in the
offseason, he bet heavily on
the rebound.
Dipoto believed the
Mariners could be revamped
without spending heavily in
free agency through shrewd
acquisitions of players who
struggled in 2015 or had
perhaps fallen out of favor
with their former club.
Through the irst six
weeks of the season, that bet
is paying off.
“The game is about a series
of ive- , six-week pockets.
Where we are on May 11 is
we have 20 more wins that
we won’t have to accrue
later. They’re all important,”
Dipoto said. “The season is
long and what you’re doing
is building up equity because
sometimes in this league it’s
feast or famine. Through the
irst (34) games we feasted.
We put ourselves in a good
position. We’re not always
going to go as good as we’re
Seattle Mar-
iners’ Chris
Iannetta (33)
is greeted by
teammates at
home plate
after he hit a
walk-off solo
home run in the
11th inning of a
baseball game
against the
Tampa Bay Rays
Wednesday
in Seattle. The
Mariners beat
the Rays 6-5.
AL West Standings
Seattle
Texas
Oakland
Los Angeles
Houston
W
21
20
14
13
14
L
13
15
21
20
22
GB
—
1½
7½
7½
8
going now but there is no
reason why we can’t play
consistently as well as we
have played.”
After completing a three-
game sweep of Tampa Bay,
the Mariners are 21-13, their
best start since 2003. They
ind themselves in the rare
position of being in irst
place in the AL West into
the middle of May and are
starting to energize a fan base
that’s grown apathetic during
the longest playoff drought
of any team in baseball.
Making the start even
more impressive was a
ive-game losing streak the
opening week of the season
that did its part to create the
perception that these were
going to be the same old
Mariners.
For now, the losing streak
has been the exception and
Servais said over the winter
that a good bullpen would
cover up many of the laws
for a irst-year manager and
while there haven’t been
many mistakes to point
at, Seattle’s relievers have
helped their manager look
good.
The Mariners bullpen is
irst or tied for irst in the
majors in seven categories,
including ERA and oppo-
nent batting average. Not
surprising, the Mariners are
8-6 in one-run games already
after going 28-29 last year.
“We’re just going to have
to be comfortable being in
them. Our starting rotation
is going to keep us in games,
our bullpen has been very
consistent, is going to keep
it tight, we’re going to be in
those games,” Servais said.
“We haven’t gotten blown
out too many times or felt we
weren’t in a game. It’s kind
of the way I saw it early. All
good teams, that’s what they
do. They talk about it, here
is where we are at, they get
comfortable in those games
and they execute in those
games.”
AP Photo/Ted S. Warren
good starting pitching, timely
hitting and a stellar bullpen
the norm. Take away those
shaky irst eight games and
Seattle has the best record in
the American League since
April 13.
“Some adversity helps too
because you see what people
are made of,” catcher Chris
Iannetta said. “We deinitely
had some adversity with that.
Anytime you lose ive in a
row it’s not fun.”
No player has deined
Seattle’s rebound more than
Robinson Cano. After scuf-
ling through the irst half of
last season, Cano has started
2016 on a tear. He leads base-
ball in RBIs with 33 and is
second in home runs with 12.
Last year, Cano didn’t record
his 12th homer until Aug. 7.
“As a player you go
home, you prepare yourself
for a good season and the
best thing is when you start
early,” Cano said. “You look
at my start last year, it was a
tough irst half. ... But you
want to start from the irst
game of the year. ... We’ve
played a different game this
year. Hopefully it continues.”
While Cano’s been the
offensive star, Seattle’s rota-
tion has — as expected —
been one of the top starting
units in the American League
thanks to the emergence of
young right-hander Taijuan
Walker. Felix Hernandez
is still the ace of the staff
— even with drops in his
velocity — but Walker has
shown signs of having a
breakout season at age 23.
The bullpen has also
been a major key to the
early success. Manager Scott
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