Mark Lowe News

For the past three years, Mariners reliever Mark Lowe was an interested spectator at the annual Hutch Award luncheon held at Safeco Field.

Dave Wallace was known as one of the better pitching coaches of his generation, helping to develop the arms of Orel Hersheiser , Pedro Martinez and John Wetteland , to name a few.

After the initial shock of learning that catcher Kenji Johjima was leaving the Mariners with two years and $16 million left on his contract, the general feeling among some in the organization is that it comes as no tremendous surprise.

Trade Brandon Morrow to Milwaukee for J.J. Hardy. Trade Jose Lopez, Mark Lowe, and Jason Vargas to Chicago for John Danks.

Mariners' reliever Mark Lowe has been named one of 10 finalists for the Hutch Award, the prestigious humanitarian award named in honor of Seattle pitching legend Fred Hutchinson and bestowed by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

It's just possible this particular collection of Seattle Mariners has hit their ceiling, maxed out at 83 wins, gone about as far as what they have will take them.

The high-volume, postgame beer shower has become a happy routine for the Seattle Mariners this season celebrating everything from first home runs to career milestones but Ken Griffey Jr.

A share of second place in the American League West went out the window on Friday night when two of the Mariners' most reliable late-inning relievers were unable to hold a one-run lead and Seattle dropped a 7-4 decision to the Rangers before 27,899 on Fan Appreciation Night at Safeco Field.

The Mariners had a shot in this one, but their two biggest bullpen arms couldn't get it done.

Ken Griffey Jr. has given the Mariners a 1-0 lead in the fourth inning, cranking the 630th home run of his career over the right field wall.

We're all tied up again in the eighth after Andruw Jones hit a leadoff double against Mark Lowe and then Michael Young drove in pinch runner Esteban German with a two-out single.

Given the mum-ness going around the Mariners concerning the future of Ken Griffey Jr., we don't know if this will be the last week of his career or simply his season.

The Mariners' turnaround from a 101-loss team in 2008 to a postseason contender for a good portion of 2009 has been one of the bigger surprises in baseball this year.

Ken Griffey Jr. is mobbed in the Mariners' dugout after his three-run home run, the 628th blast of his career, in the fifth inning.

Seven former Wisconsin Woodchucks were on Major League rosters this past summer, including Justin Berg, Lance Broadway, Casey Janssen, Mark Lowe, Pat Neshek and Ben Zobrist, while Steve Foster, the Chucks manager during the 2003 Championship season, is the Florida Marlins bullpen coach.

The ball jumped off Bill Hall's bat and spun Rays center fielder B.J. Upton abruptly around, and the pursuit was on.

Mariners 4, Rays 3 - Jose Lopez hit a tiebreaking home run in the eighth inning and Seattle beat host Tampa Bay, eliminating the defending AL champions from the postseason.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. Sitting on the bench after the fifth inning, Brandon Morrow was a contented man Wednesday he had shut out Tampa Bay on three hits, thrown only 64 pitches and was thinking he'd pitch seven innings.

B.J. Upton had three RBIs, including a go-ahead two-run single in the eighth, to help the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Seattle Mariners 5-4 on Wednesday night.

Almost every Mariners pitcher can say center fielder Franklin Gutierrez has had their back at some juncture this season.