M’s lose, but not all is lost

Apparently, Erik Bedard’s welcome to Seattle party wasn’t what he hoped. Jim Thome and Paul Konerko hit consecutive home runs off the newest Seattle Mariners pitcher.

He told the AP, “I had one bad inning and then put up zeros after that,” Bedard said after Monday’s 9-8 loss to the Chicago White Sox. “Now if I do bad the rest of the spring, that would be different,” Bedard said.

Bedard, formerly of the Baltimore Orioles, was acquired from Baltimore on Feb. 8, and allowed four runs and five hits in the first inning and finished with three hits in three scoreless innings.

The Big man on the Seattle Mariner campus, OF Ichiro Suzuki, took the day off after an 0-for-17 start.