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OAKLAND, Calif. – The metropolis Athletics threw absent inaugural period for the ordinal straight season.

On a period when Cy Young Award succeeder Felix Hernandez was at his best, the A's strength impact been at their worst. They sworn fivesome errors and managed exclusive fivesome hits in a rank mettlesome by Hernandez, dropping to the AL West rival metropolis Mariners 6-2 on Friday.

"Just a slummy period every the artefact around," A's trainer Bob Geren said. "Too some walks, too some errors. You're not going to wager that from this club rattling often. That's not the recipe that we need to win."

The errors were uncharacteristic for an A's team that led the AL in ERA (3.56) and shutouts (17) terminal flavour and usually wins behindhand solidified defense and strong pitching. metropolis had 99 errors terminal season, fifth-best in the AL.

Hernandez (1-0) gave the A's lowercase room for error, too.

He pitched his 14th occupation rank mettlesome and the majors' prototypal this year, dazzling hitters after allowing Josh Willingham's two-run, two-out bingle in the first. King Felix visaged the minimum in apiece of the incoming six innings, allowing exclusive a leadoff azygos to king DeJesus in the ordinal before Landon Powell's humble impact to begin the eighth.

Things exclusive got worse for the A's when position Kurt Suzuki went downbound writhing in discompose after being clobbered by a scoring Miguel Olivo in the seventh. But Suzuki stayed in the mettlesome to finish the play before attractive a centre with a temperate mitt ankle sprain.

Suzuki said his ankle was agonized but he was optimistic he would endeavor Saturday. As for the collision, he'd rather forget the agonized memory.

"He utilised me as a Slip N' Slide," Suzuki said. "He kind of just pronounceable over my ankle."

Chone Figgins impact a go-ahead unaccompanied bag separate in the ordinal play soured Craig Breslow (0-1). Ichiro Suzuki singled twice, drove in a separate and stole a unify of bases as the Mariners won their person low newborn trainer Eric Wedge to modify a five-game losing color in Oakland.

Seattle spoiled the A's person played before a sellout gathering of 36,067 that included 1,000 standing-room exclusive tickets. Ichiro Suzuki moved within digit impact of attachment Edgar Martinez's franchise record of 2,247.

Oakland exclusive had no answer for Seattle's ace.

Hernandez, who won the 2010 AL Cy Young Award despite exclusive 13 victories, struck discover fivesome and didn't achievement a batsman in a 108-pitch gem. The right-hander is 3-0 with a 1.71 ERA in quaternary opening-day outings.

The previous ballplayer to intercommunicate a rank mettlesome on inaugural period was Ben Sheets for the Milwaukee Brewers in 2007 against the Los Angeles Dodgers, according to STATS LLC.

"You had a Cy Young succeeder on the construction tonight, and it sure looked like it," A's ordinal baseman Mark Ellis said.

The exclusive A's particular of the period was a hurried one.

Willingham lost lowercase instance display why metropolis acquired him from pedagogue this winter to be its newborn lucre batsman and upgrade an offense that managed exclusive 109 homers and 663 runs terminal season, the team's second-fewest in the terminal 28 non-shortened seasons.

Willingham sent the ordinal movement he saw from Hernandez over the out-of-town scoreboard in mitt — the prototypal opening-day bingle allowed by Hernandez. Willingham became the 10th contestant in metropolis story to impact a bag separate in his prototypal at-bat with the A's. Frank saint terminal did it on April 3, 2006.

Jack Cust scored an insurance separate to start the Mariners' three-run seventh, when metropolis sworn digit of its fivesome errors. metropolis terminal sworn fivesome errors in a mettlesome on July 6, 2007, at bag against Seattle. The A's also had quaternary errors during their season-opening 5-3 loss to the Mariners here on April 5 a assemblage ago.

Trevor Cahill hung tough in his prototypal occupation opening-day start but awkward and saw his movement calculate climb in a hurry. The right-hander, an 18-game succeeder in his ordinal flooded major league flavour terminal year, allowed digit separate on quaternary hits in 4 2-3 innings, struck discover octad and walked four.

Cahill free a bases-loaded jam in the ordinal after serial errors by ordinal baseman Kevin Kouzmanoff, who had his prototypal occupation two-error game. Cahill mitt with runners on prototypal and ordinal with digit outs in the fifth — at 105 pitches.

New designated batsman Hideki Matsui went 0 for 3 and grounded into a threefold endeavor in his Athletics debut.

Ellis, who matched his occupation prizewinning with a 13-game touch color to modify terminal season, had an eighth-inning single.

NOTES: metropolis went 7-2 against metropolis at bag terminal season. ... The uniforms attrited by Matsui and Suzuki module be auctioned soured Sunday to aid earthquake and tsunami comfort efforts in their native Japan.

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