[nfbwatlk] Griffey's homer wakes up M's in 5-3 win vs. Twins

[Lauren Merryfield]

Hi,
That was a great game!  I was so glad we won!
Thanks
Lauren
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> Last updated May 10, 2009 2:47 p.m. PT
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> Griffey's homer wakes up M's in 5-3 win vs. Twins
> By DAVE CAMPBELL
> AP SPORTS WRITER
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>        Minnesota Twins' Nick Blackburn pitches against the Seattle
> Mariners in a baseball game Sunday, May 10, 2009, in Minneapolis. (AP
> Photo/Jim Mone)
> MINNEAPOLIS -- Ken Griffey Jr. hit a tying two-run homer in the eighth
> inning Sunday to rouse the Seattle Mariners in a 5-3 victory over the
> Minnesota Twins that stopped their six-game losing streak.
>
> Wladimir Balentien added an RBI double in that breakthrough eighth,
> ruining seven shutout innings by Nick Blackburn and helping the Mariners
> bring their record back to .500.
>
> Brendan Morrow, making his first appearance since April 23 after sitting
> out with biceps tendinitis, picked up his sixth save with a shaky ninth.
> He gave up a two-out RBI single to Joe Mauer and walked Justin Morneau
> and Michael Cuddyer on four pitches each, before getting Brendan Harris
> on a grounder to end the game after going to a full count.
>
> The only four runs Morrow has given up this year have been at the
> Metrodome. Miguel Batista (2-0) got the last out of the seventh for the
> win.
>
> Blackburn rebounded from his worst start of the season with his best,
> surrendering only five hits and a walk while striking out six against a
> Seattle lineup that produced a total of 10 runs in the previous five
> games.
>
> But the Mariners broke out late, scoring half that many in the last two
> innings against a Twins bullpen that has been trying to steady itself
> for the better part of the past two years.
>
> Jose Mijares walked Jose Lopez in front of Griffey's 614th career homer,
> and Jesse Crain (1-1) gave up three straight hits - including a single
> by Russell Branyan that clipped off the top of first baseman Morneau's
> glove. Another run scored on a wild pitch, and Balentien's big hit off
> the top off the old blue trash bag in right field brought boos from the
> crowd.
>
> Seattle's Erik Bedard minimized the damage, but he didn't exactly turn
> in a slump-stopping performance. It took him a season-high 110 pitches
> to complete a season-low 4 2-3 innings. Mauer walked and scored on a
> third-inning double by Morneau, who scored in the fifth on a two-out
> single by Cuddyer after moving up on a wild pitch.
>
> Bedard still has not beaten the Twins in nine career starts.
>
> Notes: Mike Sweeney, who has shared designated hitter duties with
> Griffey, hurt his lower back in his last at-bat of Saturday's game. But
> manager Don Wakamatsu said the injury, described as a minor muscle
> spasm, was in a different place than the one that kept Sweeney out for a
> few days in April. He should be able to play on Tuesday. ... Twins
> manager Ron Gardenhire was groggy, but feeling a bit better after
> dizziness and chills sent him from the dugout to his office for the
> final six innings on Saturday. ... Mijares gave up his first home run in
> 16 1-3 innings in the majors. ... Mariners RHP Felix Hernandez was
> feeling fine after a rough start the night before. Wakamatsu, who took a
> team trainer to the mound to check on Hernandez at one point, said
> Sunday the problem was purely mechanical. "Trying to do too much," the
> manager said. ... Twins 3B Joe Crede (hamstring) sat out the whole
> series, but is expected in the lineup on Tuesday. ... Minnesota's Carlos
> Gomez has played sparingly of late, but he reached on a bunt single and
> made an over-the-head, tumbling catch in CF in the ninth.
>


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