WINN HITS FOR CYCLE AS M'S ROUT ROYALS
Seattle LF Drives in 6
KANSAS CITY, May 27 (AP) - Randy Winn became the fourth player in the major
leagues to hit for the cycle this year as the Seattle Mariners downed the Kansas
City Royals, 16-10, at Kauffman Stadium. The wild offensive display by
both clubs featured 26 runs on 32 hits, 13 of them for extra bases. Across
both teams, 11 different players accrued multiple hits. Michael Tucker of
the Royals hit a pair of home runs and Raul Ibanez extended his hitting streak
to 24 games in a losing cause.
The Mariners jumped out to a big league early and Winn, unsurprisingly, was in
the midst of it. After Ichiro Suzuki led off the game with a single, Winn
tripled him home to give the Mariners a 1-0 lead. Winn scored the second
run of the contest on Bret Boone's grounder to first. In the second,
Seattle doubled its lead. Jeff Cirillo singled with one out and advanced
to second one out later when Willie Bloomquist drew a walk off Royals starter
Chris George (1-7). Suzuki singled home Cirillo and Winn followed with a
double into the left field corner. Bloomquist scored easily but the Royals
cut down Suzuki at the plate for the final out of the inning.
The Mariners kept right on scoring in the third, chasing George from the
game. Boone led off with a base hit and advanced to second on Edgar
Martinez's single. A wild pitch moved the runners to second and third and
John Olerud followed with his third home run of the season, giving Seattle a 7-0
lead. Scott Mullen replaced George on the mound and retired the next three
batters to end the inning.
Winn drove home his third run of the game in the fifth. Bloomquist doubled
to lead off the inning, moved to third on Suzuki's ground out and scored on
Winn's sacrifice fly, putting the Mariners ahead 8-0.
Seattle starter Freddy Garcia held the Royals scoreless through four but the
Kansas City bats finally erupted in the bottom of the fifth. Angel Berroa
singled, moved to second on a wild pitch and scored on Desi Relaford's home run
into the right field stands.
But the Mariners got all of the runs back plus one in the sixth. Ben Davis
reached on an error on Relaford to open the frame and moved to third on
Bloomquist's second double of the game. Suzuki struck out, but Winn left
himself only a single short of the coveted cycle by belting a home run over the
left field wall, upping the Seattle lead to 11-2.
Despite the huge deficit, the Royals wouldn't quit, driving Garcia from the
mound in the bottom of the sixth. Carlos Beltran led off the inning by
drawing his second walk of the game and he waltzed home on Michael Tucker's bomb
to right. It was Tucker's ninth home run of the season and it clipped the
foul pole screen before landing halfway up the right field grandstand. One
out later, Mike DiFelice grounded a single through the box and, after Berroa
popped out, Relaford drew a base on balls. Garcia was lifted in favor of
Giovanni Cararra who immediately surrendered a three-run home run to Joe Randa.
The once huge nine-run Seattle lead was down to four, with three innings left to
play.
But the Mariners put the game away once and for all by matching the Royals'
five-run outburst with one of their own in the top of the eighth. With one
out, Suzuki rapped out his third base hit of the day. Jason Grimsley
replaced Brad Voyles on the hill for Kansas City, but it wasn't Grimsley's
day. It was, however, Winn's. He completed the cycle by lining a
single to left-center, advancing Suzuki to third. Boone then blooped a
single into left, scoring Suzuki and advancing Winn to second. Martinez dropped
a base hit into center, plating Winn and moving Boone to second, giving the
Mariners a 13-7 lead. Olerud then added his own rinse-and-repeat stage by
singling to center, scoring Boone and advancing Martinez to second. Sean
Lowe replaced Grimsley and fanned Mike Cameron for the second out of the inning,
but then uncorked a wild pitch, moving the runners to second and third before
yielding Cirillo's double to right, which scored Martinez and Olerud for a 16-7
Seattle advantage. Davis struck out to finally end the inning.
The Royals wouldn't quit, adding a pair of runs in the eighth on a Relaford RBI
triple and Randa's fourth hit of the game. Tucker's solo home run, his
second of the day, leading off the bottom of the ninth capped the scoring, but
it was too little too late for Kansas City.
Winn's cycle is the first of the year in the American League. Earlier this
season, National Leaguers Danny Bautista (Arizona), Jimmy Rollins (Philadelphia)
and J.T. Snow (San Francisco) accomplished the feat.
5/27/2003, Sea03-KC03, Kauffman Stadium 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 R H E LOB DP 2003 Mariners 2 2 3 1 0 3 0 5 0 16 20 0 4 0 2003 Royals 0 0 0 0 2 5 0 2 1 10 12 1 9 2 Mariners AB R H BI AVG Royals AB R H BI AVG Suzuki rf 6 2 3 1 .280 Relaford 2b 5 3 2 3 .305 Winn lf 5 3 4 6 .356 Randa 3b 5 1 4 4 .326 Boone,B 2b 5 2 3 2 .287 Lopez,M 3b 0 0 0 0 .200 Martinez,E dh 4 2 3 1 .297 Sweeney,Mi 1b 5 0 0 0 .295 Olerud 1b 5 2 2 4 .209 Ibanez lf 3 0 1 0 .332 Mabry 1b 0 0 0 0 .097 Beltran cf 2 1 0 0 .254 Cameron cf 5 0 0 0 .308 Tucker,M rf 5 2 2 3 .267 Cirillo 3b 5 1 2 2 .220 Brown,D dh 3 0 0 0 .219 McLemore 3b 0 0 0 0 .161 Harvey ph 2 0 0 0 .239 Davis,B c 5 1 0 0 .289 DiFelice c 5 1 1 0 .258 Bloomquist ss 4 3 3 0 .273 Berroa ss 4 2 2 0 .224 44 16 20 16 39 10 12 10 Mariners INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA Garcia,F W 6-1 5.2 7 6 6 4 5 104 60 3.95 Carrara H 4 0.1 1 1 1 2 0 21 11 8.74 Rhodes H 5 0.1 0 0 0 0 1 6 3 2.50 Nelson H 7 0.2 0 0 0 0 1 8 6 1.37 Mateo,J 2.0 4 3 3 1 1 40 26 2.45 9.0 12 10 10 7 8 179 106 Royals INN H R ER BB K PCH STR ERA George L 1-7 2.0 8 7 7 1 1 50 28 9.32 Mullen 3.1 3 4 3 1 1 51 30 5.68 Voyles 2.0 3 1 1 0 0 22 16 4.50 Grimsley 0.0 4 4 4 0 0 12 8 5.61 Lowe,S 1.2 2 0 0 0 3 28 18 3.86 9.0 20 16 15 2 5 163 100 Sea: McLemore inserted at 3b in the 8th Mabry inserted at 1b in the 9th KC : Harvey batted for Brown,D in the 7th Lopez,M inserted at 3b in the 9th E-Relaford. 2B-Winn(19), Cirillo(3), Bloomquist 2(2), Ibanez(16). 3B-Winn(4), Relaford(4). HR-Winn(2), Olerud(3), Relaford(2), Randa(5), Tucker,M 2(10). RBI-Suzuki(18), Winn 6(23), Boone,B 2(36), Martinez,E(31), Olerud 4(19), Cirillo 2(17), Relaford 3(20), Randa 4(27), Tucker,M 3(27). K-Suzuki, Winn, Olerud, Cameron, Davis,B, Sweeney,Mi 3, Tucker,M 2, Brown,D, DiFelice, Harvey. BB-Martinez,E, Bloomquist, Relaford, Ibanez 2, Beltran 3, Berroa. SF-Winn. WP-Garcia,F, George, Lowe,S. GWRBI: Winn Temperature: 71, Sky: cloudy, Wind: left to right at 11 MPH. Attendance: 16,041 Game Time: 3:35