Fri, 11/19/2010 - 02:10 by Prince damin
New York -- Seattle right-hander Felix Hernandez has been voted the American League Cy Young Award winner as the league's top pitcher in 2010.
Hernandez, 24, was just 13-12 on the year for a team that lost 101 games, but he had a major leagues-best 2.27 earned run average and led the American League in innings pitched (249 2/3). The Mariners managed just seven runs in Hernandez's 12 losses.
He grabbed late-season attention by giving up just eight earned runs over his last 10 starts in becoming the first starting pitcher to win the Cy Young Award with fewer than 16 wins.
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Thu, 08/26/2010 - 09:48 by Prince damin
Boston -- Felix Hernandez struck out nine in a 122-pitch, 7 1/3-inning effort Wednesday and the Seattle Mariners earned a doubleheader split with 4-2 win over Boston.
The Red Sox won the opener of the day-night doubleheader 5-3.
Hernandez (10-10) allowed two runs, one earned, on four hits with a walk. He reached 1,000 strikeouts for his career, becoming the third-youngest player to do so.
Jose Lopez drove in two runs with a third-inning single to give the Mariners a 3-0 lead. Seattle grabbed a 4-1 advantage in the sixth on an RBI single from Matt Tuiasosopo.
Tim Wakefield (3-10) suffered the loss, surrendering four runs on eight hits in 5 2/3 innings. Brandon League worked the final 1 2/3 innings to pick up his fourth save.
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Fri, 01/22/2010 - 09:56 by shalini.bahadur
Seattle -- Seattle Mariners starter Felix Hernandez has agreed to a five-year, $78-million contract extension, making him the highest-paid player in franchise history.
MLB.com said the deal contains a no-trade clause.
Hernandez potentially gives the Mariners baseball's top two starters with southpaw Cliff Lee, the former American League Cy Young Award winner, who was obtained from Philadelphia during this off-season.
Hernandez, 23, recorded a 19-5 record in 2009 in 34 starts (238 2/3 innings) with a 2.49 ERA, 71 walks and 217 strikeouts.
His career record is 58-41 in five seasons.
He was runner-up to Kansas City right-hander Zack Greinke in the voting for the 2009 AL Cy Young Award.
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Wed, 09/30/2009 - 11:50 by shalini.bahadur
Seattle, Sept. 30: A three-run homer by Ken Griffey Jr. helped power the Seattle Mariners to a 6-4 win over Oakland Tuesday.
Griffey's 17th home run of the season came in a five-run Seattle fifth that also included an RBI sacrifice fly by Franklin Gutierrez and a run-scoring double by Bill Hall.
The outburst cleared the way for Felix Hernandez (18-5) to pitch into the eighth and win his sixth consecutive start. Hernandez allowed two runs on seven hits in 7 2/3 innings.
Kurt Suzuki drove in two runs in the ninth inning for the A's.
Trevor Cahill (10-13) took the loss after giving up six runs on eight hits in 4 2/3 innings.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International.
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Fri, 09/25/2009 - 11:51 by shalini.bahadur
Toronto, Sept. 24: Josh Wilson put Seattle in front with a two-run triple in the eighth Thursday and Felix Hernandez struck out 11, helping the Mariners edge Toronto 5-4.
Hernandez (17-5) added to his standing in the battle for the American League Cy Young Award by winning for the fifth time in six starts.
He gave up all four Toronto runs, three of them on a sixth-inning homer by Vernon Wells, but picked up the victory when Wilson came through with his clutch hit in the eighth.
David Aardsma walked the lead-off man in the ninth, then retired the next three batters for his 36th save.
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Wed, 09/09/2009 - 11:48 by preet_20
Anaheim, Calif. Sept. 9: Erick Aybar drove in the winning run in the 10th inning for the Los Angeles Angels Tuesday in their 3-2 victory over Seattle.
Aybar singled off of Miguel Batista (6-4) to drive in Bobby Abreu, who opened the inning with a single and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt and a ground out.
The first-place Angels lead Texas in the American League West by 4 ½ games.
Abreu had two hits and an RBI for Los Angeles.
Matt Palmer (10-1) picked up the win by pitching a scoreless 10th. LA starter Scott Kazmir allowed one run in seven innings.
Franklin Gutierrez had a solo home run in the first for the visiting Mariners and Mike Sweeney's solo homer in the ninth tied the game 3-3.
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Thu, 09/03/2009 - 10:55 by preet_20
Seattle, Sept. 2: Felix Hernandez and David Aardsma combined to throw a four-hitter Wednesday and carry Seattle to a 3-0 blanking of the Los Angeles Angels.
The Angels, who began the night with a 4 1/2-game lead in the American League West, lost for the ninth time in 14 games. Their usually powerful offense has been shut out twice in the past week.
Hernandez (14-5) allowed all four of the Los Angeles hits and struck out six over eight innings. The Angels managed more than one base runner in an inning just once against Hernandez.
Aardsma came on to work a perfect ninth for his 33rd save.
The loss went to Scott Kazmir (8-8), making his first start for the Angels after being obtained in a waiver deal with Tampa Bay.
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Sat, 08/29/2009 - 10:42 by preet_20
Seattle, Aug. 29: Josh Wilson drove in three runs Friday, and Felix Hernandez bounced back from a poor start to help lift Seattle to a 6-3 decision over Kansas City.
Wilson hit a slow bouncer back to the pitcher in the second inning that allowed Mike Sweeney to score from third and singled in two runs in the fourth to give the Mariners a 5-1 lead.
That was enough for Hernandez (13-5), who limited the Royals to three runs on five hits in seven innings before turning things over to the bullpen.
Sean White retired the side in the eighth inning, and David Aardsma worked around a lead-off single in the ninth to grab his 31st save.
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Sat, 07/18/2009 - 12:22 by surajdogra
Cleveland, July 17: Felix Hernandez won his sixth straight decision Friday by limiting Cleveland to five hits and carrying Seattle to a 6-2 victory over the Indians.
Hernandez (10-3) went eight innings, giving up both Cleveland runs and striking out eight. He has gone 10 consecutive starts without a loss dating to May 19.
Since suffering his last setback, Hernandez has allowed only 11 earned runs in 76 innings.
Seattle scored the game's first five runs and got started in the first when Franklin Gutierrez hit a solo homer against his former team. Gutierrez, who has 11 home runs this season, was traded from Cleveland to Seattle prior to the start of the campaign.
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Fri, 07/10/2009 - 12:09 by preet_20
Seattle, July 10: Frank Gutierrez hit a three-run, two-out homer in the eighth inning Thursday that vaulted the Seattle Mariners to a 3-1 win over Texas.
The Rangers scored a run in the sixth on a bases-loaded wild pitch thrown by Felix Hernandez and it appeared for a while that one miscue would cost the Mariners the game.
Texas starter Tommy Hunter threw six shutout innings, allowing four hits, and reliever Darren O'Day worked a perfect seventh.
C.J. Wilson, however, coughed up the one-run lead in the eighth. After Ichiro Suzuki doubled to open the eighth, Wilson (4-4) retired the next two batters. Ken Griffey kept the inning going by drawing a walk and Gutierrez drove a 1-0 pitch out to left-center.
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Sun, 06/28/2009 - 12:01 by preet_20
Los Angeles, June 28: Felix Hernandez pitched eight strong innings and Ken Griffey Jr. hit a two-run home run Saturday in Seattle's 5-1 inter-league win over the Los Angeles Dodgers.
Hernandez (8-3) held the Dodgers to just one unearned run on four hits with nine strikeouts and one walk.
Griffey's homer was his ninth of the season and the 620th of his career.
Russell Branyan had a home run and a triple, Franklin Gutierrez had three hits and one RBI, and Ichiro Suzuki had three hits for the Mariners, who won for the sixth time in their last eight games.
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Wed, 06/17/2009 - 12:42 by preet_20
San Diego, June 17: Felix Hernandez threw a two-hit, four-walk shutout Tuesday, pitching the Seattle Mariners to a 5-0 inter-league victory over the San Diego Padres.
Hernandez (7-3) allowed just two singles and held the host Padres hitless between the second and ninth innings while striking out six.
Franklin Gutierrez and Adrian Beltre homered for the Mariners, and Ken Griffey Jr. put the game away with a two-run insurance single in the top of the ninth.
Hernandez's 117-pitch effort overshadowed a solid eight innings by San Diego starter Kevin Correia (3-5), who allowed two runs on two hits and struck out five. The loss was the 12th straight inter-league loss for the Padres.
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