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  Thursday, Sep. 7 7:05pm ET
Garcia gives up 2 hits in 8 innings
 
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TORONTO (AP) -- Seattle manager Lou Piniella didn't give Mariners right-hander Freddy Garcia a chance at his first shutout of the season.

Freddy Garcia
Freddy Garcia blanked the Blue Jays through eight innings, then gave way to Jose Paniagua.

Garcia allowed two singles in eight scoreless innings and Seattle beat the Toronto Blue Jays 8-1 Thursday night, only the Mariners' seventh win in 24 games.

"We we're going to take him out after eight, regardless of the score," said Piniella, who brought in Jose Paniagua to pitch the ninth. "He came close to 120 pitches."

Garcia, who threw 117 pitches, wanted to finish, but that didn't matter.

"He asked me and I said 'Yeah,' but he took me out," Garcia said. "I guess he wanted me ready for my next start."

Garcia (6-4) struck out six and worked around six walks.

"He really had it working," Piniella said.

Garcia, 23, didn't allow a hit until Darrin Fletcher led off the fifth with a single. After Jose Cruz grounded into a double play, Mickey Morandini singled for Toronto's only other hit.

"He had a fresh arm," Toronto shortstop Alex Gonzalez said. "He had good movement on his fastball."

Tony Batista ended the combined shutout bid with his 38th homer and gave the Blue Jays a franchise-record 222 home runs. Toronto, which leads the majors in homers, had not connected in its previous six games.

Steve Trachsel (7-13) saw his record against Seattle this season drop to 0-4.

Trachsel expects Toronto's offensive slump to end soon.

"Someone is going to pay," he said.

Trachsel, acquired from Tampa Bay on July 31, allowed four runs and nine hits in seven innings.

"He pitched good, but we got to him," said second baseman Mark McLemore, who drove in three runs for the AL West leaders.

Seattle took a 3-0 lead in the fifth on McLemore's two-run double and Rickey Henderson's RBI double.

Al Martin homered in the eighth and the Mariners added four runs off Billy Koch in the ninth. Edgar Martinez hit a two-run double, McLemore had an RBI single and Alex Rodriguez drove in a run with a grounder.

Game notes
Attendance was just 17,571. ... Canadian reliever Paul Quantrill made his 300th appearance for the Blue Jays. ... Henderson led off two of his previous three games against Trachsel with a homer. Henderson singled in his first at-bat Friday night. ... Martin, acquired from San Diego in midseason, has three home runs in the AL this year.

 


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