Thursday, September 4, 2014

The return of the king

Last week Felix Hernandez had the worst game of his career when he gave up 4 homerun. Yesterday's game started out look as though it might be just as bad when he gave up an early homerun to Adam Dunn. He managed to settle down after that and went on to have a game more like the ones we are accustom to seeing from the man we call the king. He ended up pitching 8 innings and only giving up 3-hits including that one homerun.
In the top of the 7th inning Kyle Seager and Corey Hart repaid Felix's hard work by hitting back-to-back homeruns to give the Seattle Mariners a 2-1 lead. The 2 runs were all that Seattle needed when Fernaando Rodney came in to relieve Felix in the 9th inning and quickly mowed down the Athletics to pick up his 41st save of the season.

"It means a lot," Hernandez said. "We came here to win the series, and that's what we did. Going against Lester, I knew it was going to be tough. I just had to make good pitches."

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