Mark Lowe News Archives

The Mariners' turnaround from a 101-loss team in 2008 to a postseason contender for a good portion of 2009 has been one of the bigger surprises in baseball this year.

Ken Griffey Jr. is mobbed in the Mariners' dugout after his three-run home run, the 628th blast of his career, in the fifth inning.

Seven former Wisconsin Woodchucks were on Major League rosters this past summer, including Justin Berg, Lance Broadway, Casey Janssen, Mark Lowe, Pat Neshek and Ben Zobrist, while Steve Foster, the Chucks manager during the 2003 Championship season, is the Florida Marlins bullpen coach.

The ball jumped off Bill Hall's bat and spun Rays center fielder B.J. Upton abruptly around, and the pursuit was on.

Mariners 4, Rays 3 - Jose Lopez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and Seattle beat host Tampa Bay, eliminating the defending AL champions from the postseason.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Sitting on the bench after the fifth inning, Brandon Morrow was a contented man Wednesday he had shut out Tampa Bay on three hits, thrown only 64 pitches and was thinking he'd pitch seven innings.

B.J. Upton had three RBIs, including a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth, to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Seattle Mariners 5-4 on Wednesday night.

Almost every Mariners pitcher can say center fielder Franklin Gutierrez has had their back at some juncture this season.

Elaine Thompson / Associated Press Seattle relief pitcher Mark Lowe wipes his brow after allowing three runs to the Chicago White Sox in the seventh inning Tuesday.

Mariners pitching coach Rick Adair, center, counsels pitcher Mark Lowe during Chicago's decisive three-run seventh.

You can see the New York Yankees, out taking batting practice as I write this, in the photo above as they begin warming up.

The White Sox took the tough route Tuesday night to keep their slim American League Central hopes alive.

Getting runners on base has not been the White Sox ? big problem this season. Getting the runners home has.

Shawn Kelley gave up a pair of singles to lead off the inning. The White Sox then broke the game open, taking advantage of a shaky Seattle bullpen.

Seattle 5, Texas 0 Texas Bottom 8th - - Elvis Andrus grounded out to first to end the inning.

One of the workhorses in the Mariners bullpen could be sidelined for the remainder of the season.

Ichiro Suzuki is experiencing a season unlike any other. The Mariners outfielder has missed 16 games -- the same number he tallied in his previous eight seasons combined with Seattle.

Jack Wilson's two-run single highlighted a four-run second inning Friday that started Seattle on its way to a 6-3 decision over Oakland.

UPDATE ON CARLOS SILVA: We can tell you that Carlos Silva threw one inning tonight against Class AAA Salt Lake and allowed just one hit.

Twenty-four hours after Los Angeles showed Seattle how the Angels win games planting a lopsided loss on the Mariners, the Mariners let them see how they've earned nearly all their wins.

Doug Fister went from facing one of the worst teams in the American League to facing one of the best.