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Tuesday, Jun. 27 10:05pm ET
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SEATTLE (AP) -- The Seattle Mariners won another game and lost another catcher Tuesday night. As Kazuhiro Sasaki was closing out Seattle's seventh straight victory, 5-3 over the Anaheim Angels Tuesday night, the Mariners announced they have lost Tom Lampkin for the remainder of the season. Their No. 1 catcher, Dan Wilson, has been on the disabled list since June 15 with a pulled left oblique muscle and isn't expected back until after the All-Star break next month. In a move after the game, the Mariners called up Robert Machado, the starting catcher for Triple-A Tacoma, to back up Joe Oliver, 34, who will be Seattle's starting catcher until Wilson gets back. Lampkin, 36, who hit his first career grand slam home run with two out in the eighth inning Sunday to give the Mariners a four-game series sweep over Baltimore, had a magnetic resonance imaging test before Tuesday's game. That revealed he had a torn ligament in his right elbow that would require Tommy John surgery, where his torn ligament is replaced by a tendon in his wrist. He will be operated on Friday. Trainer Rick Griffin said Lampkin's recovery time from the surgery would be about a year. "A realistic goal is 10 to 12 months for a catcher with this surgery," Griffin said. "I'm not sure how I hurt it," Lampkin said. "I knew I was hurt in spring training, but I thought I could play through it. It didn't hurt to swing the bat, but it hurt to throw." Lampkin began the season on the DL because of torn cartilage in his right knee. He was operated on on March 1 and was activated on April 13. "I don't know how long it's going to be," Lampkin said. "All of a sudden spring training 2001 starts looking pretty big for me." Aaron Sele won for the seventh time in eight decisions, and David Bell and Mike Cameron homered for the Mariners, who remained a half game behind Oakland in the AL West. The Athletics beat Texas 7-6 Tuesday night. Angels starter Tim Belcher (2-1) and manager Mike Scioscia were ejected in the second inning by plate umpire Mike DiMuro for arguing after Belcher balked in Joe Oliver, giving Seattle a 3-0 lead. Scioscia was mad because Belcher was thrown out of the game. "I never got an explanation of why Tim was tossed from the ballgame," he said. "There is a line any player crosses when byou deserve to be tossed out of the game and Tim actually did not cross that line." Said Belcher: "I didn't feel like I did enough intially to be tossed out. I told him there was no way that was a balk and I wanted an explanation." Sele (9-3) allowed three runs and five hits in 6 1/3 innings, striking out six. He is 7-1 with a 4.09 ERA in nine starts since May 15. Arthur Rhodes and Kazuhiro Sasaki finished, with Sasaki pitching the ninth or his 15th save in 17 chances. Seattle's seven-game winning streak is the team's longest since it won 10 straight from Sept. 12-21, 1996. Belcher, in just his third start following offseason surgery on his right elbow, gave up three runs, three hits, three walks and a balk in 1 1/3 innings. Mo Vaughn hit his 21st homer for the Angels. John Olerud hit an RBI single in the first, and Bell started the second with his fifth homer. With runners at the corners later in the inning, Belcher faked a throw to third, but his foot came toward the plate. After Joe Oliver scored from third on the balk, Belcher got into an animated argument with DiMuro and was tossed. Scioscia came out, got between Belcher and DiMuro, then was ejected, too. Tim Salmon's RBI single pulled Anaheim to 3-1 in the third, but Mark McLemore hit a run-scoring double-play grounder in the fourth. Cameron connected off Mike Fyhrie in the fifth with his 10th homer and Vaughn homered in the sixth off Sele, his first since June 17. Darin Erstad hit a run-scoring grounder in the seventh. Game notesThe Mariners are 18-6 in June. ... Seattle's Edgar Martinez, who leads the majors with 77 RBI, has a four-game hitless streak for the second time this season. ... Scioscia was thrown out of his second game this season. ... Erstad's hitting streak was stopped at 11 games. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Anaheim Clubhouse Seattle Clubhouse RECAPS Baltimore 6 Boston 3
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