Michael Pineda challenged Miguel Cabrera with pitch after pitch, repeatedly reaching the mid-to-high 90s on the ballpark's radar gun. Finally, with his ninth offering of the at-bat, the rookie struck out the slugger with a nifty slider. "He's not afraid to throw the ball," catcher Miguel Olivo said. "No matter who's hitting, he just goes and gets him." Pineda struck out nine in six sharp innings and Olivo and Luis Rodriguez each homered to help the Seattle Mariners beat Detroit 7-2 on Thursday for a three-game sweep of the Tigers. Read more: http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=310428106&teams=seattle-mariners-vs-detroit-tigers
Who'd'a thunk that the M's could roll out a staff of Felix, Bedard and a "fringe Cy Young", Rookie-of-the-Year candidate and put 24 runs up on the board, all in one week? Only 4 games back!!! Are we still "believing big"?
