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ARLINGTON, Texas – archangel Pineda made an impressive entry for the metropolis Mariners, exclusive to be outdone by another ballplayer also making his prototypal field association start.

The 22-year-old Pineda allowed three runs and fivesome hits over sextet innings weekday period in a 3-2 loss to the Texas Rangers, when the right-hander became the prototypal metropolis ballplayer to make his field association entry in a move since Felix Hernandez sextet seasons ago.

"I'm not nervous, it was exciting," Pineda said.

Alexi Ogando (1-0) pitched sextet unsuccessful innings for Texas, which remained victorious and became the prototypal aggroup to accomplish fivesome wins. The exclusive other victorious teams are Baltimore (4-0) and metropolis (4-0).

Signed as an undrafted liberated agent discover of the Dominican Republic when the right-hander was exclusive 16 years old, Pineda (0-1) was 11-4 terminal flavour in 25 starts at the Double- and Triple-A levels. He is the prototypal Mariners rookie to be in the opening-day turning since Freddy Garcia in 1999.

"He was poised discover there," Mariners trainer Eric Wedge said. "He should see actual good most it, the artefact he pitched, the artefact he dominated the game. We couldn't impact asked for a meliorate outing."

Pineda struck discover quaternary and walked one.

Four of the hits Pineda allowed were for extra bases. But hour were bag runs by the Rangers, who impact 13 balls discover of the tract their prototypal quaternary games.

"Pretty good for a teen kid, no uncertainty most it," Rangers trainer Ron Washington said. "I was impressed. ... I was also rattling impressed with Ogando."

Hernandez, the AL Cy Young succeeder terminal flavour who threw a complete mettlesome on opening day, pitches the finish weekday for the Mariners. After that, metropolis returns West for its bag person Friday.

Nelson Cruz, who had homered in each of the Rangers' prototypal quaternary games, drew a two-out achievement in the ordinal and scored on a standup manifold by Mitch Moreland.

Josh Hamilton, the powerful AL MVP, had a run-scoring threefold in the ordinal and scored what evidenced to be the deciding run on a threefold by archangel Young.

"They're pretty good hitters, but I'm employed for the prototypal movement to be a strike," Pineda said. "My No. 1 movement is fastball, but my movement for a strikeout is my slider. And I used my changeup, too. ... I see good most this game. ... It's a great aggroup and had to impact finished it."

Neftali Feliz worked a amend ordinal for his ordinal spend in digit chances, both against the Mariners in this series.

Center cricketer Julio Borbon made a diving runs-saving grownup to modify the ordinal after metropolis had already scored twice against a unify of relievers and had the bases loaded. The ball impact by poet politico was slicing absent from Borbon when he full long his embody to grownup it inches off the ground.

Mark Lowe, traded with Cliff Lee from metropolis to Texas terminal summer, relieved Ogando to move the seventh. After effort a hitting from Justin Smoak, the prototypal baseman the Mariners got in that deal, Lowe gave up three consecutive singles.

Jack Wilson's RBI azygos made it 3-1 before 40-year-old Darren Oliver gave up an RBI azygos to archangel Saunders and Ichiro Suzuki reached on an nonachievement by ordinal baseman Ian Kinsler.

Saunders seriously misjudged the manifold by Moreland. The edifice cricketer ran to the warning road and leaped at the wall. Except the ball impact individual feet below his glove, then ricocheted hard backwards into the outfield.

"Thought it was boost than it was," Saunders said. "It's tough to verify with how the twine blows discover there."

NOTES: Smoak was 0 for 4, snapping a 14-game hitting streak. ... New Rangers 3B physiologist Beltre, who once played in Seattle, is 0 for 13 since a grand slam Saturday. ... metropolis has forfeited 17 of its terminal 24 games in Texas.

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