Batista can't slow Cleveland
                   
mlb.com     Jul 20, 2008            

Ibanez, Ichiro unable to rescue Seattle after Indians' big third SEATTLE -- The Mariners turned back the clock 19 years on Saturday afternoon, and it seemed only fitting that the oldest player on the team would be a central figure in the festivities. Right-hander Miguel Batista, who was pitching in his second season with the then-Montreal Expos farm team in the Dominican Republic in 1989, has looked his age more times than not this season. Now 37 years old, Batista started against the Indians in place of the flu-stricken Jarrod Washburn in the second game of a three-game series, departing during a six-run third inning as the Mariners dropped a 9-6 decision to the visitors in front of 37,869 at Safeco Field. Batista surrendered a three-run home run to former Mariners outfielder Shin-Soo Choo in the first inning after right... [read full story]                    


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