Seattle Mariners on the road to 100 losses.

Ichiro drops the ball, Mariners magical week ends

Riding high on a monumental 5 game winning streak and rekindling the dream runs in 1995 and 2001, your Seattle Mariners went for the 3-game sweep of those nefarious Boston Red Sox at Fenway with their Cy Young winner on the mound and yellow ear plugs firmly planted on the bench.

With 2 outs, no one on in the bottom of the 9th in a 2-2 game, Suzuki gotten eaten alive by a Jed Lowrie rocket in right field. No doubt that asshole sun was a Red Sox fan today. Suzuki is just too cool to actually lose a ball in the sun, and if he did, Nike makes a crappy pair of shades. Lowrie made it all the way to third base, and Carl Crawford ended it a few pitches later with a clean single off of Jamey Wright.

The Mariners bats could only muster 4 hits on a day they faced Tim Wakefield and Bobby Jenks. Gack! Bobby Jenks walked 3 M’s, 2 of them with the bases loaded, for Seattle’s only runs. Jonathan Papelbon came in and pitched a clean top of the 9th for the win.

NOTES: Miguel Olivio caught his seventh straight game today. “He wanted it” said Eric Wedge. Tim Wakefield is only 14 wins away from passing oger Clemens as the all-time winningest pitcher in Red Sox history. At 44, Wakefield was the oldest starting pitched since Roger Clemens started at 45 in September of 2007. King Felix moved into third on the Mariners’ career list with 1,087 strikeouts.