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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- It hasn't taken Rickey Henderson
long to prove his worth to the Seattle Mariners.
Henderson's third leadoff homer against Tampa Bay in a week
began a six-run first inning Friday night that helped Aaron Sele
beat the Devil Rays 11-4.
"He's electric," Sele (5-2) said after scattering eight hits
over seven innings to win his third straight game.
"He creates problems at the top of the lineup for other teams.
You make a mistake and he can hit a home run. He gets on base, now
you've got to think about him at first. He's a real weapon up
there."
Henderson connected in the first inning off Steve Trachsel (3-4)
for the second time in five days, extending his own major league
record for leadoff homers to 78. He also hit one off Tampa Bay's
Esteban Yan in his first game with Seattle last Saturday.
"You're just trying to make contact. You don't really go up
there looking for a home run," Henderson said. "If you make good
contact your first at-bat, then you can feel relaxed up there."
Sele (5-2) beat Trachsel for the second straight outing and
remained unbeaten in four career decisions against Tampa Bay. He
allowed four runs, struck out seven and walked one.
Jay Buhner went 3-for-3 with a homer and four RBIs for Seattle,
Mike Cameron, Dan Wilson and Mark McLemore drove in two runs
apiece, and the Mariners also scored twice on bases-loaded walks to
snap a three-game losing streak.
Steve Cox hit his first major league homer, and Vinny Castilla
and Fred McGriff also drove in runs for Tampa Bay, which has lost
10 of 12 games.
Devil Rays manager Larry Rothschild met behind closed doors with
general manager Chuck LaMar for about 20 minutes after the game.
LaMar shook up the roster by releasing pitcher Dwight Gooden and
shortstop Kevin Stocker on Thursday, but no moves were announced
Friday.
"There's ongoing discussions, obviously," Rothschild said.
"We've got to try to keep tweaking things until we get them
fixed."
Henderson signed with Seattle after being released by the New
York Mets on May 13. He led off his first game with his new team
with a homer off Yan and repeated the feat the following day
against Trachsel.
Trachsel's pitching has gotten progressively worse in three
outings since he won consecutive 1-0 decisions on the road over
Boston's Pedro Martinez and New York's Orlando Hernandez.
The right-hander have allowed 16 runs, 21 hits and walked seven
in 10 innings, while going 0-2 with one no decision in his past
three starts. He gave up six runs on two hits and walked four in
one-third of an inning Friday night, equaling the shortest outing
of his career.
David Bell, who popped out after Henderson homered, was the only
batter Trachsel retired. The Devil Rays starter walked the next
four hitters before Cameron's bases-loaded, ground-rule double
bounced over the wall in left center field.
Wilson singled off Cory Lidle to drive in the fifth run of the
inning, and McLemore finished the uprising with a sacrifice fly.
The Mariners added run in the fifth on Buhner's RBI single.
The Mariners added three more in the ninth on Buhner's 10th
homer of the season, a two-run shot, McLemore's RBI single.
Game
notes
Tampa Bay's Greg Vaughn is day to day after leaving in the
sixth inning with a strained right hamstring ... Trachsel, then
with the Chicago Cubs, lasted one-third of an inning of a 16-3 loss
to St. Louis on Aug. 7, 1998 ... The Mariners have outscored
opponents 48-27 in the first inning this season, including a 19-4
advantage in the last 10 games ... Henderson argued unsuccessfully
that interference should have been called on the fan who reached
out and caught Cox's home run with a hat ... McLemore, suspended
for charging the mound last Saturday after he felt Yan threw at
him, was booed before each plate appearance. The second baseman
remains in the lineup while he appeals the five-game penalty.
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