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Despite a recent slump, Brandon League has been a solid closer for the Seattle Mariners in the last two-and-a-half seasons.

South Omaha's storied beginnings as an industrial hub and the world's largest livestock market also left behind some dirty and perhaps not-so-little secrets.

Normally I will look at players that have been good and unlucky or mediocre and lucky but there's also the section of pitchers that are both lucky and good.

Marc and I both put up game threads, so I'm just copying the contents of mine over here.

Jerry Sands homered and drove in four runs as the Albuquerque Isotopes outlasted the host Tacoma Rainiers 9-7 on Wednesday afternoon.

As Tacoma battles through a slump and the jetlag after an 11-games-in-12-days road trip, the Rainiers get a boost from the arrival of hard-throwing right-hander Stephen Pryor.

The Mariners are in positive overall territory. Though it may not have seemed like a walloping of the Twins , from a run prevention standpoint it was and the offense did just enough to inch the overall ranking into the black for now.

Everybody will remember Austin Wood's 169 pitches, 14 strikeouts and 13 innings pitched against Boston College on May 31st, 2009.