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SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle Mariners got their revenge against
Esteban Yan.
|  | | John Olerud's three-run double capped the Mariners' seven-run second inning. |
Without Mark McLemore, serving a four-game suspension for charging the mound against Yan in his last start in Seattle, the
Mariners scored seven runs in the second inning and beat the Tampa
Bay Devil Rays 8-5 Wednesday night.
"I think that was a bit of a motivation for our ballclub,"
said Alex Rodriguez, who had one of two bases-loaded doubles
against Yan in the second.
"I don't look at it that way, but certainly our hitters might
have," Mariners manager Lou Piniella added.
Rodriguez hit a two-run double and John Olerud a three-run
double in the Mariners' second, when they scored the most runs in
an inning this season.
Yan (4-5) pitched to seven batters in the second without getting
an out.
Yan said he didn't feel nervous being in a hostile environment.
"I pitched behind in the count and got in trouble," he said.
"I walked a lot. I probably threw too quick to the plate."
Aaron Sele (8-3) improved his career record against the Devil
Rays to 5-0, including 3-0 this season. But he left the game after
he walked Fred McGriff and gave up a double to Bobby Smith to start
the sixth.
Kazuhiro Sasaki pitched the ninth for his 12th save in 14 opportunities.
Yan triggered a bench-clearing melee in his last start at Safeco
Field on May 20 when he threw a pitch between McLemore's legs after
McLemore called time out and was out of the batter's box. McLemore
charged the mound and was thrown out of the game. The Mariners
second baseman began serving his suspension Tuesday night.
In his rematch with the Mariners, Yan had his worst control of
the season, walking a season-high five and hitting a batter.
"He helped us with his control," Piniella said.
"He stuck it to us the last time," Rodriguez said. "We took
it as a personal challenge."
The Mariners took their 7-0 lead in the second on second baseman
Smith's fielding error on a grounder by John Mabry, a bases-loaded
walk to Mike Cameron, Rodriguez's double over center-fielder
Quinton McCracken's head and Olerud's bases-clearing double.
McGriff hit a two-run homer off Sele in the fourth, a 419-foot shot over the center-field fence.
Sele said he was just trying not to walk McGriff.
"Fred's been around the game a long time," he said. "He knew
he was going to get a fastball. He was just waiting for the
pitch."
The Devil Rays scored two runs in the fifth. Gerald Williams hit
a grounder to third baseman Mabry, who committed two errors on the
play. Mabry bobbled the ball and then threw the ball into the
stands. Mike DiFelice scored from third base and Felix Martinez came home from second.
In the sixth, DiFelice's sacrifice fly cut Tampa Bay's deficit
to 7-5.
Rickey Henderson singled in a run for Seattle in the seventh.
Sele, the highest-paid Mariners player at $7.5 million, gave up five runs, four earned, on five hits and four walks with six strikeouts.
"I don't walk a lot of guys. That's part of my game. I just
threw too many balls tonight. I was behind in the count too much,"
Sele said.
Yan was charged with seven runs, six earned, on three hits and
five walks in his one inning.
Game notes
Yan hit David Bell with a pitch in the second for his
eighth hit batter of the season, the second-most in the AL. Doug
Creek hit Jay Buhner in the fourth, giving the Devil Rays a major
league-leading 32 hit batters. ... Yan averaged 2.4 walks in his
first 14 starts this season. ... Yan was booed when he was
introduced by the crowd of 27,555, and was booed when he left the
game. ... When the Mariners batted around in the second, it was the
ninth time they've done that in an inning this season. ...
McGriff's homer was the 404th of his career and second of the
series. It was his 18th career homer against the Mariners. ... RHP
Freddy Garcia, a 17-game winner as a rookie for the Mariners last
season, pitched four innings in Salem, Ore., for Single-A Everett
in his first of two rehabilitation assignments in the minors.
Garcia has been on the DL since April 16 because of a fractured
right tibia. The Mariners hope Garcia can pitch July 1 against
Texas.
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