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04-11-2002, 01:20 AM
ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Bret Boone and John Olerud homered off ex-teammate Aaron Sele as the Seattle Mariners defeated the Anaheim Angels 8-1 Wednesday night.
James Baldwin (2-0) allowed one run and five hits seven innings, and Dan Wilson drove in three runs to help Seattle beat Anaheim for the 18th time in their last 22 games. The Mariners have won 11 straight at Anaheim.
Last season, the Angels finished a franchise-record 41 games behind the AL West-leading Mariners, who tied a major league record with 116 victories.
Sele (0-2), a two-time All-Star right-hander who left the Mariners to sign a $24 million, three-year contract with the Angels in December, made his second start for Anaheim and was pounded for seven runs and 10 hits in five innings.
All the damage against Sele was done before his teammates got their first hit off Baldwin -- who replaced the right-hander in the Mariners' rotation. Baldwin, signed for $1.25 million, was a combined 10-11 with a 4.42 ERA last season with the Chicago White Sox and Los Angels Dodgers.
Three of the runs off Sele came on sacrifice flies by Jeff Cirillo, Mark McLemore and Ichiro Suzuki -- who was hit by Sele's second pitch of the game.
Wilson drove in two runs with a double just out of the reach of right fielder Tim Salmon during a four-run fourth, and the Mariners tacked on two more in the fifth on solo homers by Boone and Olerud for a 7-0 lead.
The Angels got their first hit with one out in the fifth on a ground single up the middle by Tim Salmon, dropped from third to sixth in the order after going 3-for-24 with two RBIs in his first seven games.
Salmon was 2-for-3, including a run-scoring single in the seventh.
Notes: Wilson hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh for the Mariners, who hit a major league-leading 70 sacrifice flies last season. ... Sele was a combined 32-15 with a 4.05 ERA in his two seasons with Seattle. ... Baldwin plunked Angels leadoff batter David Eckstein with his fifth pitch of the game, ending a streak of 15 consecutive batters retired by Seattle pitchers. Eckstein was hit 21 times last season, the most in the AL, and the most ever by a rookie in either league. ... Angels pitching coach Bud Black left the team until Friday due to the death of his mother Helen, 83, in Palm Springs on Tuesday night. ... The Angels had their full lineup back on the field for the first time this season, following a five-game suspension to 1B Scott Spiezio and a two-game suspension to 3B Troy Glaus. ... LHP Dennis Cook, who began the season on the DL because of a bruised ribcage, pitched a hitless inning in his Angels debut. Anaheim is his ninth major league team. ... The Mariners have not allowed a ninth-inning run in their first nine games.
James Baldwin (2-0) allowed one run and five hits seven innings, and Dan Wilson drove in three runs to help Seattle beat Anaheim for the 18th time in their last 22 games. The Mariners have won 11 straight at Anaheim.
Last season, the Angels finished a franchise-record 41 games behind the AL West-leading Mariners, who tied a major league record with 116 victories.
Sele (0-2), a two-time All-Star right-hander who left the Mariners to sign a $24 million, three-year contract with the Angels in December, made his second start for Anaheim and was pounded for seven runs and 10 hits in five innings.
All the damage against Sele was done before his teammates got their first hit off Baldwin -- who replaced the right-hander in the Mariners' rotation. Baldwin, signed for $1.25 million, was a combined 10-11 with a 4.42 ERA last season with the Chicago White Sox and Los Angels Dodgers.
Three of the runs off Sele came on sacrifice flies by Jeff Cirillo, Mark McLemore and Ichiro Suzuki -- who was hit by Sele's second pitch of the game.
Wilson drove in two runs with a double just out of the reach of right fielder Tim Salmon during a four-run fourth, and the Mariners tacked on two more in the fifth on solo homers by Boone and Olerud for a 7-0 lead.
The Angels got their first hit with one out in the fifth on a ground single up the middle by Tim Salmon, dropped from third to sixth in the order after going 3-for-24 with two RBIs in his first seven games.
Salmon was 2-for-3, including a run-scoring single in the seventh.
Notes: Wilson hit a sacrifice fly in the seventh for the Mariners, who hit a major league-leading 70 sacrifice flies last season. ... Sele was a combined 32-15 with a 4.05 ERA in his two seasons with Seattle. ... Baldwin plunked Angels leadoff batter David Eckstein with his fifth pitch of the game, ending a streak of 15 consecutive batters retired by Seattle pitchers. Eckstein was hit 21 times last season, the most in the AL, and the most ever by a rookie in either league. ... Angels pitching coach Bud Black left the team until Friday due to the death of his mother Helen, 83, in Palm Springs on Tuesday night. ... The Angels had their full lineup back on the field for the first time this season, following a five-game suspension to 1B Scott Spiezio and a two-game suspension to 3B Troy Glaus. ... LHP Dennis Cook, who began the season on the DL because of a bruised ribcage, pitched a hitless inning in his Angels debut. Anaheim is his ninth major league team. ... The Mariners have not allowed a ninth-inning run in their first nine games.