GAME THREAD: GAME THREAD: AL: SEATTLE (66-51) at TORONTO (60-58)

Glaus, Blue Jays send Mariners to eighth straight loss

<h3>TORONTO 2, SEATTLE 1</h3>TORONTO (Ticker) -- Crazy eights, indeed.


Troy Glaus' single to center in the eighth plated Alex Riosas the Toronto Blue Jays handed the Seattle Mariners theireighth straight loss with a 1-0 victory on Saturday.

With the game tied, 1-1, in the eighth, Sean Green relievedSeattle starter Miguel Batista. Green promptly walked leadoffbatter Rios and surrendered a single to left field by FrankThomas. Glaus then singled to center to score Rios for thedeciding run.


Green (5-2) allowing one run on two hits in two-thirds of aninning, spoiling the effort of Batista. The Seattle startertossed seven strong innings, allowing one run on five hits andseven strikeouts.


Toronto starter Dustin McGowan (9-8) allowed one run on six hitsin eight innings to win for the first time in his last fivestarts.


Jeremy Accardo kept order in the ninth, retiring the side tonotch his 27th save of the season.


Ironically, order was also "restored" earlier in the game.

Toronto's Aaron Hill was called out after teammate Lyle Overbaybatted out of order in the second inning.


Hill doubled to left in the second inning, but was ruled outafter Mariners manager John McLaren came out to argue and theumpires convened.


Overbay was slated to bat seventh in the official lineups handedto the umpires prior to the game. However, the Toronto firstbaseman batted in front of Hill - who was the No. 6 hitter onthe official lineup card - and flied out to lead off the secondinning.


Hill's at-bat was changed, with the putout going to the catcher.

Hill exacted his revenge in the seventh when he blasted a solohomer, his 15th of the season, to give Toronto a 1-0 lead.

 

Glaus, Blue Jays send Mariners to eighth straight loss

<h3>TORONTO 2, SEATTLE 1</h3>TORONTO (Ticker) -- Crazy eights, indeed.


Troy Glaus' single to center in the eighth plated Alex Riosas the Toronto Blue Jays handed the Seattle Mariners theireighth straight loss with a 2-1 victory on Saturday.

With the game tied, 1-1, in the eighth, Sean Green relievedSeattle starter Miguel Batista. Green promptly walked leadoffbatter Rios and surrendered a single to left field by FrankThomas. Glaus then singled to center to score Rios for thedeciding run.


Green (5-2) allowing one run on two hits in two-thirds of aninning, spoiling the effort of Batista. The Seattle startertossed seven strong innings, allowing one run on five hits andseven strikeouts.


Toronto starter Dustin McGowan (9-8) allowed one run on six hitsin eight innings to win for the first time in his last fivestarts.


Jeremy Accardo kept order in the ninth, retiring the side tonotch his 27th save of the season.


Ironically, order was also "restored" earlier in the game.

Toronto's Aaron Hill was called out after teammate Lyle Overbaybatted out of order in the second inning.


Hill doubled to left in the second inning, but was ruled outafter Mariners manager John McLaren came out to argue and theumpires convened.


Overbay was slated to bat seventh in the official lineups handedto the umpires prior to the game. However, the Toronto firstbaseman batted in front of Hill - who was the No. 6 hitter onthe official lineup card - and flied out to lead off the secondinning.


Hill's at-bat was changed, with the putout going to the catcher.

Hill exacted his revenge in the seventh when he blasted a solohomer, his 15th of the season, to give Toronto a 1-0 lead.

 

Glaus, Blue Jays send Mariners to eighth straight loss

<h3>TORONTO 2, SEATTLE 1</h3>TORONTO (Ticker) -- Crazy eights, indeed.Troy Glaus' singleto center in the eighth plated Alex Rios as the Toronto BlueJays handed the Seattle Mariners their eighth straight loss witha 2-1 victory on Saturday.


With the game tied, 1-1, in the eighth, Sean Green relievedSeattle starter Miguel Batista. Green promptly walked leadoffbatter Rios and surrendered a single to left field by FrankThomas. Glaus then singled to center to score Rios for thedeciding run.


"Luckily it got up the middle there," Glaus said. "Rios got agood jump. I was just hoping his natural speed would take overand it worked."


Green had a different take, obviously.


"I threw the pitches I wanted to throw, it just didn't workout," Green said. "It was some bad luck and it ended up costingus the game."


Green (5-2) allowing one run on two hits in two-thirds of aninning, spoiling the effort of Batista. The Seattle startertossed seven strong innings, allowing one run on five hits andseven strikeouts.


"I wanted to pitch a good game because that's the only way weregoing to get out of this bad streak," said Batista, who tossed aseason-high 120 pitches. "My location was good and I was ableto keep us in the game. It was a good pitcher's duel."

Toronto starter Dustin McGowan (9-8) allowed one run on six hitsin eight innings to win for the first time in his last fivestarts.


"I just kind of had that feeling today," said McGowan, who wonhis first game since August 5. "I pitched well enough to keepus in the game. In the long run, all that matters is that theteam wins and we have success."


Jeremy Accardo kept order in the ninth, retiring the side tonotch his 27th save of the season.


Ironically, order was also "restored" earlier in the game.

Toronto's Aaron Hill was called out after teammate Lyle Overbaybatted out of order in the second inning.


Hill doubled to left in the second inning, but was ruled outafter Mariners manager John McLaren came out to argue and theumpires convened.


Overbay was slated to bat seventh in the official lineups handedto the umpires prior to the game. However, the Toronto firstbaseman batted in front of Hill - who was the No. 6 hitter onthe official lineup card - and flied out to lead off the secondinning.


"When we get the lineup from their team, we check it against theboard which is always standard procedure," McLaren said. "It'shappened a couple of times this year that their lineup and whatthey sent over is not the same thing. But they had changed itin the meantime, so it's something that's a red flag and we lookfor it. Overbay made an out so we just kept it - it was ourtrump card. Then when Hill got on with the double, we used ourtrump card."


"We just hit out of order," Toronto manager John Gibbons said."My job is to review that and we didn't review that."

Hill's at-bat was changed, with the putout going to the catcher.

Gregg Zaun exacted his revenge in the seventh when he blasted asolo homer, his 15th of the season, to give Toronto a 1-0 lead.