{"id":3199,"date":"2005-04-05T00:40:13","date_gmt":"2005-04-05T08:40:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/04\/05\/sexson-sizzles-in-seattle\/"},"modified":"2005-04-05T00:40:13","modified_gmt":"2005-04-05T08:40:13","slug":"sexson-sizzles-in-seattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2005\/04\/05\/sexson-sizzles-in-seattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexson sizzles in Seattle"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tPretty impressive opening day for the hapless Mariners:<\/a><\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

“Not exactly the way you envision it,” Sexson said, smiling. “To do something like that is a little far fetched.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading “Sexson sizzles in Seattle”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-PB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}