Game 3: A's 7, MARINERS 1

Well, the M's had a chance to be the first Mariners team to open the season with a sweep on the road. Unfortunately, the A's had other ideas about that and knocked the M's around a bit. Doug Fister took the mound for his first start of the season and pitched decent enough. He gave up 8 hits, but managed to avoid walking any batters and almost went a full 6 innings. It didn't help that Milton Bradley lost a ball in the sun, or that Josh Lueke gave up 4 runs in relief, to make this game go from competitive to unwinnable. Offensively, Ryan Langerhans became the second Mariner to go deep this season and Justin smoak kept his hitting streak alive with his second double of the season. Pretty quite otherwise. At least we won this series. On to Texas!