Let's get to it ...

Top of 1st
1-2-3 inning for Ryan Feierabend. It's nice not having Mauer in there. And no, I don't care how Feierabend pronounces his name.

Bottom of 1st
Yuni showing some good patience from the No. 2 spot, getting a base hit on the first pitch. but nothing comes of it as third baseman Brendan Harris makes a nice diving stop on Beltre's hard ground ball and gets up and throws him out at third. Maybe it's a baseball karma for all the hits Beltre has taken away with his outstanding defensive play.

Top of Second
Feierabend gets in a little trouble giving up a soft single to Justin Morneau and then walking Randy Ruiz. Miguel Cairo tries to get him out of it, trying to turn a 3-6-3 double play, but Jason Kubel barely beats the throw, much to Cairo's disbelief. With Morneau advancing to third, Delmon Young hit a deep fly to center to score the run. Brendan Harris doubled to left to give the Twins runners at on second and third with two outs, but Feierabend got Nick Punto to pop up to third to end the inning. Twins 1, Mariners 0.

Bottom of second
Mariners go quietly, nice pop up to the pitcher by Johjima.

Top of third
Casilla with a single but Feierbend gets a nice play from Cairo at third on a hard ground ball from Morneau.

Bottom of third
Ichiro picks up his 173rd hit of the season and later scores as Yuni works the count to 2-2 (small victories) then rips a ball to the left-center gap that was just out of reach for Delmon Young. Ichiro score easily .... tie game 1-1.

Top of four
Feierabend finally kept flirting with trouble and finally got burned. A pair of singles and a two-out walk loaded the bases for Denard Span. Feierbend was ahead of Span 1-2 and threw a change-up and Span stayed back long enough and golfed it into right-center for a ground rule double to score a pair of runs. Twins lead 3-1.

Bottom of Four
The Twins two-run lead was short-lived. Beltre leads off with an infield hit and then Jose Lopez hits the first pitch he sees down the left field line and the ball stayed fair and just cleared the 331 foot sign for a two-run homer.

Top of five
Feierabend seems rejuvenated with tie game and gets a 1-2-3 inning.

Bottom of five
It's like I never left. The Mainrers get the first two runners on, and Yuni of all people successfully lays down a sac bunt. But of course, they don't score. Raul hits a rocket to first that Morneau catches and Beltre pops up to right to end the inning.

Top of Six...
pretty uneventful

Bottom of Six
A pair of two-out walks give the Ms some hope, but Cairo grounds out to second. Hey, you play Cairo you get defense, just not much offense.

Top of Seven
Feierabend works out of a jam, picking off Nick Punto and then surviving a Span single to get out. It's 3-3 and Feierabend probably won't figure in the decision unless the Mariners socre here.

Bottom of Seven
Raul is such a good teammate he makes sure that Feierbend is on line for the win, blasting an 0-1 pitch to right for his 21st homer of the season, giving the M's a 4-3 lead.

Feierabend finished with 7 innings pitched, allowing three runs on eight hits with two walks and four strikeouts. He threw 114 pitches and 76 were strikes.

Top of Eight
Well, Feierabend was in line for the win for all of a half of an inning as Sean Green came i and gave up a double, a single and another double. Cesar Jimenez came in to try and clean up the mess and that didn't work as pinch hitter Brian Buscher singled to right to score two runs. It's now 6-4 Twins.

Bottom of Eight
It's now a one-run game after back-to-back doubles from Johjima and Clement. It might have been tied but pinch runner Tug Hulett was thrown out at home by Denard Span, trying to score on Miguel Cairo's single to right. Twins 6, Mariners 5, we head to the ninth.

Here's the lineups ...

TWINS (74-58)
2 Denard Span CF
25 Alexi Casilla 2B
55 Mike Redmond C
33 Justin Morneau 1B
56 Randy Ruiz DH
16 Jason Kubel RF
21 Delmon Young LF
23 Brendan Harris 3B
8 Nick Punto SS
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15 Glen Perkins P

MARINERS (50-82)
51 Ichiro RF
5 Betancourt SS
28 Ibanez LF
29 Beltre 3B
4 Lopez 2B
50 Balentien CF
2 Johjima C
9 Clement DH
13 Cairo 1B
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31 Feierabend P

What's up strangers? That's right I'm back for the final game of the homestand. Sorry for the absence, but I've been busy with WSU and Pac-10 football this week.

Let's get to it really quickly ...

Pretty quiet pregame session with Jim Riggleman. Not much to report about. He talked about the dangers of maple bats, a little more about replay, Yuni batting second again today, and that's about it. Nothing earth shattering. He didn't endorse a presidential candidate or anything like that.

He did address the reason why JJ Putz come in for the save last night. Earlier in the day, Putz admitted to being a little sore, so he wasn't going to take any chances.

"If we were in the playoff race, he'd have been in there," Riggleman said.

He also talked about Brandon Morrow's tough outing yesterday in Tacoma, saying that he talked with Rainiers pitching coach Dwight Bernard, who said Morrow just had a bad game, which is going to happen.

"Everybody is going to have days like that," Riggleman said.

Morrow gave up six runs on five hits in 4 2/3 innings, here's Grant Clark's story from yesterday's doubleheader.

Rotation changes
Riggleman shifted around the rotation somewhat for this weekend's series in Cleveland ... most importantly he is waiting to start Carlos Silva. He had said that Silva was going to start on Sunday the 31st, but that would have required making a roster move. Instead, he'll wait till after Sept. 1 when they call up any player on the 40-man roster to pitch Silva. So Silva will probably start on Sept. 1 at Texas.

Here's this weekend's probable starters
Friday -- RH Felix Hernandez (8-8, 3.28 ERA) vs. LH Jeremey Sowers (2-6, 5.95 ERA)
Saturday -- LF Jarrod Washburn (5-14, 4.93 ERA) vs. RH Anthony Reyes (2-1, 2.22 ERA)
Sunday -- LF Ryan Rowland-Smith (3-2, 3.73 ERA) vs. LH Zach Jackson (0-0, 4.91 ERA)

NO TV on SATURDAY
Saturday's game against Cleveland will not be televised. FOX originally picked up the game and scheduled it for 12:55 p.m. But for obvious reasons, FOX has dropped the game and chosen to televise a different game. But since the game time is in the FOX blackout window, it cannot be televised. Cleveland could have changed the time after FOX dropped it, but chose not to, keeping it the same. SO if you want to follow the game you'll have to listen to it on KOMO 1000-AM.