Darrin Beene is entering his seventh year at The News Tribune, having covered the Tacoma Rainiers in 2005 and Major League Baseball for two years before that. Beene, a former assistant sports editor at The News Tribune, also worked for the Los Angeles Daily News and Los Angeles Times. He lives in the South Sound with his wife and two children.
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If you're watching any Mariners' game, take special note of the first inning. The Mariners have been outscored 32-14 this season in the first. More bad firsts: The first inning is opponent's most productive inning while it's the Mariners least productive inning.
Mariners manager Mike Hargrove was asked about the team's first inning struggles before Wednesday's games. He acknowledged the problem but did not really have an answer for it. "Stats are stats," Hargrove said, "and it's just a number of the game."
That may be, but the numbers say when the Mariners score first, they've got a good chance to win. Seattle's record is 10-5 when scoring first, 11-21 when they don't.
On Wednesday, Jarrod Washburn pitched a 1-2-3 first for Seattle against Baltimore and Richie Sexson singled in Jose Lopez in the bottom of the inning to make it 1-0.
