Yes, I know Arlington is a hitter's park, but Bloomquist's line in tonight's game is absolutely ridiculous:

6 2 5 1

The five hits was the most production from a Mariners second baseman since... well, pretty much anything we've seen from "All Star" Jose Lopez. Granted, only one of Bloomquist's hits went for extra bases- a seventh-inning double- but of those four singles, one of them came in the ninth, allowing Greg Dobbs- who had reached third on a three-base error on a comebacker to the mound- to score, and Willie eventually scored the tying run on an Ichiro Suzuki single. "Willie Bloomquist" and "clutch" don't often pop up in the same sentence very often, but his performance in tonight's ball-game- especially in the ninth inning- was definitely clutch, and may have landed him the opportunity, whether rightly earned or not, to keep playing for his home-town team for a few more years.

It's nice to see the Marienrs regained their hitting ability. One night after being one-hit by Kevin Millwood through six innings, the Mariners exploded for 18 hits against a rag-tag Texas pitching staff. Still, it can't be said as they were efficent with their hits, as even though they mave have doubled the hit total of the Texas Rangers, the M's left 16 on base compared to the Rangers' five. But that's what happens when the Rangers ended up taking batting practice in the third inning, when they hit three home-runs off of starter Jarrod Washburn- who took himself out of the game after spraining his right calf after allowing a double to Mark DeRosa. Mark Teixiera, Hank Blalock and Ian Kinsler all hit home-runs off Washburn and reliever Cesar Jiminez, knocking in four runs. That's what you call being efficent.

Still, Bloomquist's five hits are hard to explain, even factoring the hitter-friendly park factors down in Arlington. He entered the game batting .171 at AmericaQuest field. If anything, one should;ve expected anotehr 0-for-4 rally-killing night from the Ignitor. But I'll take the production from unexpected sources such as Bloomquist, and Adam Jones who hit the game-winning pinch-hit two-run single knocking in Mike Morse and Jose Lopez with the go-ahead runs. One inning of solid releif later, J.J. Putz closed the game out for his 33rd save and the Mariners did an amazing come-from-behind victory, down 7-5, and winning 9-7 by scoring four runs in the ninth and tenth innings.

Sadly, of the 18-hit explosion, Adrian Beltre naried did partake, just turning in one hit in five at-bats, though he did knock in a run with an RBI ground-out in the fourth inning. Thoguh that does bring his average to .263, it does continue his nine-game hitting streak that he's been on since his return after the birth of his son, Adrian Jr.

It would be interesting to see how Adrian fares against Robinson Tejeda, the starter for the Rangers in tomorrow's ball-game. Though it would be nice to see AB turn on his power stroke against Tejeda, he doesn't have any at-bats against Tejeda for any sample size to draw a conclusion from. Tejeda has only one start against the Mariners under his belt, keeping them to two runs in 6.2 innings, tossed a couple of weeks back while beltre was away with his newborn. Ichiro was the only Mariner to get multiple hits, with two in three at-bats, while Tejeda did a good job confsuing Richie Sexson, striking him out in all three at-bats that Sexson faced Tejeda. Perhaps Beltre's presence in the line-up tomorrow may pose more of a challenge then Willie Bloomquist, who manned third while Beltre was out. Though, Bloomer did have five hits in today's game- and picked up two hits in that 3-2 M's victory that Tejeda didn't receive a decision in.

Cha Seung Baek takes the hill for the Mariners, a week off his six runs in 3.1 innings debacle versus the Toronto Blue Jays in a 10-0 shellacking that ended the M's last home-stand. Of course, it should be reminded that Baek kept the Rangers scorelss through seven innings in the start prior to that. In his career, Baek has tossed fifteen scorelss innings against the Rangers, split between two starts. It goes without saying that that streak has to come to an end sometime, and it more than liekly will tomorrow in the Ranger's home ball-park. Still, that doesn't mean the Rangers will score many runs. Of the four hits he has given up against the Rangers, all of them have been for singles. Obviously, Cha Seung has got the Rangers figured out to some eextent, which bodes well for his chances to make the 2007 rotation.

With Baek on the mound, I think the Mariners have a good chance in tomorrow's game, especially with Beltre in the line-up against Tejeda. I say 6-1, Mariners, and speaking of a score that confidently agaisnt an opponent in the AL West, I know I'm goig to regret it....