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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) -- Seattle first baseman John Olerud
accounted for six runs -- the four he drove in for the Mariners and
the two he kept Anaheim from scoring.
"The play he made at first on the hard grounder by (Adam)
Kennedy, that would have been a triple and they probably would have
scored two and tied it," Seattle manager Lou Piniella said Monday
night after the Mariners' 8-6 win over the Angels.
"John had a big night."
|  | | Mark McLemore gives Edgar Martinez a high-five welcome to the dugout after Martinez scored on John Olerud's second-inning double. |
Olerud had a sacrifice fly in the first inning, then a
bases-loaded double for three runs in the second as the Mariners
took a quick 5-0 lead and held off the Angels.
Closer Kazuhiro Sasaki gave up a leadoff single to Mo Vaughn and
walked Tim Salmon to start the ninth. But Sasaki got Garret
Anderson -- who already had two solo homers and an RBI double -- to
fly out, struck out Troy Glaus, then ended it on Benjie Molina's
soft fly to center.
"We scored five, added a few, then just held on," Piniella
said. "After he (Sasaki) went 2-0 on Salmon then walked him, and
then threw a ball to Anderson, he settled down and got the three
outs."
Olerud's big defensive play came an inning earlier when, with
one out and runners on first and second, he dove to his left and
speared pinch-hitter Adam Kennedy's grounder down the line.
"If that had gotten past me, it probably would have been a
triple down in the corner," Olerud said. "That was about as far
as I could reach to get it."
Anderson had his second career multihomer game.
"Nobody gave up, that's the character of this team," he said.
"If you keep coming out and fighting, you never know, something
might happen."
Edgar Martinez singled home a run in Seattle's first to extend
his RBI streak to eight consecutive games and his season total to
85 RBI. That's the most in club history before the All-Star break,
one more than Ken Griffey Jr. had in 1997.
Rickey Henderson's RBI single in the seventh made it 8-6.
After falling behind 6-1 in the third, the Angels closed to 7-6
with one run in the fourth, on Anderson's second homer of the game
and 23rd of the season, and a four-run sixth, keyed by Molina's
two-run shot.
Jamie Moyer (7-3) gave up six runs in 5 2/3 innings, holding
Anaheim to a pair of runs on Anderson's solo shots until the sixth,
when Anderson and Glaus had consecutive run-scoring doubles and
Molina hit his ninth homer.
Sasaki's save was his 17th.
Although they are only 3-3 in their last six games, the Mariners
have won 18 of their last 23 and, at 48-32, have the best record
through 80 games in club history.
Anaheim starter Ken Hill (4-5) had trouble getting the ball over
the plate and was rocked for five runs on four hits and five walks
in just 1 2-3 innings.
Game
notes
The Mariners' best mark through 80 games before this year
was 47-33 in 1997. ... The Angels' Darin Erstad, a late scratch
from the starting lineup because of tightness in his lower back,
had a pinch-hit single in the eighth. Erstad, who has missed only
one game this season, has a major league-leading 131 hits. ...
Anderson is 16-for-34 lifetime against Moyer, including three
homers. Anderson's other two-homer game was May 25 of last year
against Baltimore. He's the seventh different Angel to homer twice
in a game this year. ... Glaus' double in the sixth snapped an
0-for-20 slump in which he struck out 13 times. ... Molina's nine
homers match the most by an Angels catcher in an entire season
since Lance Parrish had 19 in 1991. Jim Leyritz and Todd Greene
each homered nine times in 1997.
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