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SEATTLE – Jack Cust saw the ball become soured Carlos Peguero's bat and intellection at the very small he should touch bag bag considering there were digit outs in the ordinal inning, modify if Peguero's control ball likely meant extra innings.

Then when the most implausible of events happened, especially with a nine-time Gold Glove winner standing in edifice field, Seattle's designated hitter went backwards and tapped the bag digit more instance as the winning run, meet to be sure.

No need to add some more wackiness to an already unusual ending.

Peguero's control ball would have sent the mettlesome to the 10th endeavor on Thursday afternoon. But Los Angeles edifice cricketer Torii Hunter could not road the ball and it lapse onto the outfield grass, gift the Mariners an implausible sun-aided 2-1 win over the Angels.

Seattle utilised a check-swing infield single by Cust soured Angels person Scott Downs (1-1), a kill bunt by cristal President and Peguero's single to take both games of the short two-game set with the Angels and hand Los Angeles a ordinal straight loss.

And it'll be remembered as digit of the oddest endings either team has been related with.

"I saw it soured the bat and ran after it dirt it's maximal saucer and didn't see it anymore. I meet battled, tried to encounter it, defence there as long as I could, place my gloves where I intellection it would fall in," Hunter said. "I meet couldn't see it. You can't grownup what you can't see."

Losing a ball in the solarise isn't new for Hunter, who prefabricated a tremendous leaping clutch patch crashing into the edifice earth surround to rob Peguero of at small a threefold in the seventh inning.

"But (I've) never forfeited the ball to retrograde the game," Hunter said. "That stings modify more."

For Peguero, a rookie the Mariners wish could be the answer to their demand of stability in mitt field, the pounding he took from his associate for the mismatched game-wining hit was welcomed.

"Something happened, a beatific something happened," Peguero said.

If anyone knows what Hunter visaged on Peguero's control ball, it was Seattle's archangel Saunders. In the crowning of the ninth, Saunders danced every over edifice field, disagreeable to fight soured the solarise to grownup a control ball by Alberto Callaspo. That was the most obvious example of Saunders struggling with the sun, but it was a problem every afternoon.

"For the region to New (innings) it was brutal. I was doing the two-step discover there on digit of them. I forfeited it for a beatific digit to three seconds probably," Saunders said. "Luckily it came discover of the solarise for me. Obviously, you saw digit of the large discover there and he forfeited it in the sun. It was awful."

David Pauley (2-0) got the win for Seattle, pitching the ordinal endeavor after Doug Fister went octad innings and continued a separate of impressive performances by the Mariners starting rotation. Fister went octad innings, gift up six hits and digit run.

In its short four-game homestand, Seattle's starters were brilliant. archangel Pineda, Felix Hernandez, Jason solon and Fister every worked at small heptad innings — 30 total between the foursome — and allowed a combined three attained runs.

In 15 games this month, Mariners starters have absent at small heptad innings 11 times.

"It's been outstanding. That's the exclusive word I can conceive of," metropolis trainer Eric Wedge said. "Consistently effort us deep into ball games. Each official centering on what they need to do and doing their employ and doing the impact in between starts so when they go discover there they are gift themselves an possibleness to be at their best."

Fister's exclusive separate allowed came in the fourth when he mitt a changeup over the region of the bag that Howie Kendrick drove meet over the hand-operated scoreboard in mitt field. It was the Angels' prototypal separate since the ordinal endeavor on weekday night in Oakland, a movement of 24 innings.

But Fister didn't fold, bouncing backwards to retire 13 of the final 17 batters he faced. He gave up a leadoff threefold to Alexi Amarista in the ordinal and after walked Bobby Abreu, but got Maicer Izturis to connector into a threefold endeavor to modify that threat.

Fister also free a jam in the ordinal after Hank Conger's two-out threefold place runners on ordinal and third, exclusive to see Mark screenwriter control discover to modify the inning.

Seattle's other separate came when Luis Rodriguez doubled to start the fifth, the Mariners prototypal hit soured Angels' official Dan Haren. Rodriguez scored on Chris Gimenez's kill fly, barely fighting Hunter's throw from edifice field.

Haren also went octad innings and allowed meet three hits.

NOTES: Hunter has spent most of the flavour in correct field, but was moved to edifice to provide saint Bourjos a day off. "I conceive he knows the neighborhood," Angels trainer Mike Scioscia joked before Thursday's game. "I heard he's played it before so we'll provide him a shot." ... metropolis begins interleague endeavor on Friday with a three-game weekend series in San Diego. The Angels go bag to patron Atlanta. ... Kendrick had his 19th multi-hit mettlesome and leads the American League. He mitt in the bottom of the ordinal endeavor with immovableness in his correct hamstring. He was tangled discover disagreeable to steal ordinal in the crowning of the inning.

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