Pretty impressive opening day for the hapless Mariners:
Two at-bats with his new club, two home runs for Richie Sexson. If you’d have made that forecast to Seattle’s slugger a week ago, he wouldn’t have thought it was possible.
Sexson homered twice and drove in five runs in his Seattle debut, and 42-year-old Jamie Moyer pitched 5 2/3 strong innings Monday to lead the Mariners to a season-opening 5-1 win over the Minnesota Twins.
“Not exactly the way you envision it,” Sexson said, smiling. “To do something like that is a little far fetched.”
Moyer’s pitching was unbelievable compared to his second half last year. I was ready to pull his feeding tube but he came back like a big-leaguer.
I’ve still got my doubts about Mariner pitching, but there’s no doubt Ichiro, Beltre, and Sexson are a force to be reckoned with and stuff. They should move Ibanez into the number two hole and give that poor rookie a break now that spring training is over, however.