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McLaren notches first win as M's skipper...Mariners beat Royals
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KANSAS CITY -- Along with a memory "that will never leave me," John McLaren collected the game ball, lineup card and a green bottle of Dom Perignon champagne signed by the players on Wednesday night.
The mementos signaled McLaren's first victory as the Mariners' manager, a 4-0 victory over the Royals at Kauffman Stadium. It also erased two straight losses since Mike Hargrove stepped down as Mariners' skipper after Sunday's game.
"We needed a win," McLaren said. "Of course, I wanted my first win, that's big, but we needed a win as a team. We went through a shock, me included, when Grover stepped down. We needed a pick-me-up."
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Washburn threw first-pitch strikes to 21 of 30 hitters and mixed 71 strikes among a season-high 115 pitches.
"I was commanding both sides of the plate with the fastball tonight and the off-speed pitches, too," he said. "I guessed right on a few guys that were early counts swinging and I threw some nice off-speed pitches to get early outs. I just kept them off-balance."
He never allowed a runner past the second base and only permitted five hits all evening. After Esteban German doubled with one out in the first inning, Washburn retired the next 13 batters before Buck singled in the fifth.
He cruised after that, and spread just 109 pitches over his first 24 outs.
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McLaren notches first win as M's skipper...Mariners beat Royals
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