I'll add some more later, but here's a few things really quickly ...

* Reliever Shawn Kelley gave the Mariners a bit of a scare when he threw and awkward pitch off the mound and the limped to the dugout after getting out of the ninth inning. But Kelley brushed it off, saying it was just a cramp and that he’s been battling some dehydration. …

* First baseman Russell Branyan missed a second straight game with back spasms. Wakamatsu hopes to have him back on the field for Tuesday’s series opener with Tampa Bay. “It’s still locked up,” Branyan said.

* Seattle pitchers tossed three wild pitches in the game as Kelley, Carlos Silva and Mark Lowe all uncorked wayward pitches. The Mariners had that happen three times in 2008. The team record is four which has occurred on three different occasions the latest was August 17 of last season against the Twins.

TIGERS NOTES:
• In only his second Major League start, Rick Porcello earned his first Major League victory while setting a career high
with 7 innings pitched. He was the Tigers # 1 pick in the 2007 draft.
• Detroit is now 5-1 against the AL West after sweeping the Rangers and winning 2 of 3 in Seattle.
• Every member of the Tigers lineup recorded at least one hit except catcher Matt Treanor. Carlos Guillen, Ramon
Santiago and Josh Anderson each had multi-hit efforts.
• Ramon Santiago recorded a career high 5 RBI with a single, fielders choice and he capped it off with a 3-run double
in the 8th inning. His previous career high was 4 (9/18/2003 vs. TOR).
• Miguel Cabrera went 2x4 with 3 runs scored. He has hit safely in 11 of 12 games this season while batting .489.
MARINERS NOTES:
• The Mariners lost their first series (1-2) of the season after winning or splitting their first three (MIN, OAK, LAA).
• Carlos Silva gave up three runs in the fourth inning, but only gave up one hit, an RBI double by Brandon Inge. Silva
has now lost each of his last 4 starts against Detroit and is now 0-4, 14.11 ERA (23 ER, 14.2 IP). His last win against
the Tigers was Sept. 24, 2007 at Comerica Park.
• Seattle pitchers (Silva, Lowe, Kelley) had 3 wild pitches in today’s game, one short of the franchise high of 4 (3x, last:
8/17/08 vs. MIN). They recorded 3 wild pitches four times in 2008.
• Seattle pitching gave up a season high 8 runs, but only 5 earned (previous: 5, 2x, last: 4/16 vs. LAA).
• Endy Chavez went 2x4 with an RBI and has now hit safely in 12 of the 13 games this season, batting .392 with 5
runs, a double, home run, 6 RBI and 4 stolen bases. Coming in to the game, he ranked ninth in the American League
in batting. Chavez has now recorded 6 multi-hit games on the season, including 4 in his last 6 games.
• Endy Chavez’s single in the 1st inning was his 17th on the season. Chavez entered Sunday’s game, 1st in the
American League in singles.
• Ronny Cedeno homered in the 3rd inning, his first homerun since July 24, 2008. He has now recorded an extra-base
hit in two straight games. He doubled on April 17 vs. Detroit.
• Shortstop Yuniesky Betancourt recorded two errors in the 8th inning. It was the third time in his career that he has
had two errors in one game (last: 7/18/08 vs. CLE).
• Jaimie Burke made his first start of 2009 after being called up from AAA Tacoma. He went hitless on the day.

It's a beautiful day here at Safeco and I can't tell you how much I love day baseball. I know that financially it makes more sense for the Mariners to have games at 7 p.m., but it wouldn't hurt my feelings to see the Mariners have some more day games on Saturday.

The problem is that if it's during the day, the game can't be broadcast on television because of the blackout agreement signed with Fox for it's game of the week. Look, that whole agreement is just idiotic, especially since Fox's game of the week is always seems to feature either the Red Sox, Yankees, Mets or Cubs. Also frustrating is people who have the MLB extra innings package are still susceptible to the blackout. Meaning I'm paying good money for a service that promotes you get all of the games, when it should say, you get all of the games unless they happen to be a Saturday day game and isn't the Fox game of the week.

MLB should just take control and say to Fox, "We're going to televise whatever games we want or we'll take our business to the four letter."

As you can tell his upsets me some, there are 30 teams in baseball not just the two that Fox determines it will show on what is a pretty hacky broadcast - i.e. Tim McCarver is death to my ears.

Let's have some day baseball on Saturdays, televise them games still so people can see it, and allow some people to watch baseball with the sun on their shoulders like it was meant to be played.

Ok, there's my mini rant for the day.

GAME UPDATES start here ...

Top of 1st
Silva has a little trouble giving up opposite field hits to Placido Polanco and Maggs "I need a haircut" Ordonez. But he gets out of it with no damage. It took 21 pitches to get through the inning, something to watch for later.

Bottom of 1st
Endy Chavez beats out an infield hit. I know it may be sacrilege, but I think Endy may be faster than Ichiro from home to first.

Top of 2nd
The Mariners turn a big 4-6-3 double play and Jose Lopez digs the short hop that Yuni fired to first on the play.

Bottom of 2nd
Yuni called out of the baseline on a double play that Polanco tried to tag him on

Top of 3rd
Ronny Cedeno ends the inning with a nice sliding stop on a ball toward the hole on the right side. He makes a play that Lopez could never even come close to getting to.

Bottom of 3rd
Make a great play, lead off the next inning --- with a homer, a deep shot to left. It's Cedeno's first of the season, Mariners 1, Tigers 0.

Top of 4th
Silva hasn't been sharp, but he hasn't been horrible. But he paid for a lead-off walk to Cabrera as he gave up back to back hits including an RBI double to Brandon Inge. After the double, his very next pitch to Josh Anderson was in the dirt and about a foot behind him. The extremely wild pitch allowed a run to score and then Jim Leyland ran the suicide squeeze with Ramon Santiago. Silva's throw was a little late and Jamie Burke couldn't block the plate to keep Inge out. Tigers, 4 Mariners 1

Bottom of 4th
Not much going against Porcello, who seems to have found a nice rhythm.

Top of 5th
Silva looks a little better than the fourth. But his pitch count is slowly building. It ends with 94 pitches, only 54 were strikes. His line: 5 IP, 6 H, 4 R, O K, 1 BB, 1 WP

Bottom of 5th
Mariners still can't get much going on Porcello

Top of 6th
I still can't seem to figure Mark Lowe out. One outing he'll look absolutely dominant like the 2006 season, and then he'll have outings like today where the fastball lacks movement and he gets slapped around and is all over the place with his fastball. Tigers up 5-1.

Bottom of 6th
Porcello cruises through the three hitters again.

Top of 7th
Miguel Batista works a quick innings, well sort of. I mean he still takes forever to throw a pitch and throws to first too much, but he does make it through without any damage.

Bottom of 7th
The Mariners have five hits, they should have six but Brandon Inge made a fabulous diving catch on Adrian Beltre's screaming line drive down third. Beltre's done it hundreds of times to hitters so somebody returned the favor.

Top of 8th
Yuni was well, Yuni at his worst booting back-to-back ground balls to load the bases, and then Batista makes it worse by giving up a double to Ramon Santiago that clears the bases. It's now 8-1 and the Mariners really don't have the pop in their lineup to come back from monster deficits like this. As columnist John McGrath said, their offense is kind of like the old wishbone offense in football, its great when you're ahead or the game is close, not so much when you are down big. None of the runs given up were earned for Batista

Bottom of 8th
The Mariners pick up a run on an RBI single from Endy Chavez, but the inning ends when Junior grounds out to first with runners on first and second.

Top of 9th
Shawn Kelley gives up a hit and a walk but gets out unscathed.

Bottom of 9th
Lopez gets a double to left. Mike Sweeney makes the Mariners first pinch hit appearance and gets a pinch hit. But nothing comes from it as Ronny Cedeno pops up to end the game.

Tigers 8, Mariners 2

The lineups are up for today, we haven't talked to Manager Don Wakamatsu yet, but he's got Jose Lopez penciled in as the first baseman today. Obviously, Russell Branyan's back is still bothering him.

Perhaps Wak told Lopez about playing there last night because when he walked by and glanced at the lineup he didn't pause or take a second glance. Then again, with Lopez it's entirely possible that he might not know what the position numbers are either.

UPDATE: Well, we finally got to talk to Wakamatsu, the Mariners had a lengthy Kangaroo court session, under supreme Kangaroo justice Ken Griffy Jr., who donned a black judges robe with the words: "Judge Mo Money" across the front in Mariners letters. He also was sporting an old school, thick gold rope with a big gold 24 on it, obviously left over from this foray into the musical worldHere's the lineup
Mariners
Ichiro RF
Endy Chavez LF
Ken Griffey Jr. DH
Adrian Beltre 3B
Jose Lopez 1B
Yuni Betancourt SS
Jamie Burke C
Ronny Cedeno 2B
Franklin Gutierrez CF
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Carlos Silva P

Tigers
Curtis Granderson CF
Placide Polanco 2B
Magglio Ordonez RF
Miguel Cabrera 1B
Carlos Guillen DH
Brandon Inge 3B
Josh Anderson LF
Ramon Santiago SS
Matt Treanor C
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Rick Porcello (0-1, 7.20 ERA)