Is that... is that the Mariners bullpen coming through in a pinch? WHAT?!?!

Signs that the world is ending... the Seattle Mariners manage to win a 1-0 ballgame. Never though I'd see that this season.

When you have a bullpen of nothing but righties who through nothing but fastballs, you've got issues. So when starter Chris Jakubauskas (pictured right) had a 1-0 ballgame in the Mariners favor going - I thought the bullpen was going to blow it.

But they held up, Batista, Lowe and Aardsma combined for three innings of relief and allowed only one hit as Seattle defeated the LA Angels.

Good pitching is how the Mariners are going to succeed because they certainly aren't getting it from their bats - they're just an anemic lineup through and through. Don't get me started about Bettencourt either. So game plan - shut everyone else out for the rest of the year. Sounds like that will hold up for sure. :P

The big thing though is that Seattle (19-22) gained on division -leading Texas (23-16) as they lost today to the Detroit Tigers.

Lots of long fly ball outs though for the pitching staff, and the wind was blowing in so their excellent pitching could have been do to the conditions at Safeco.

Mariner fans, the gig is up, your bullpen sucks

FSN jinxed last night's game by flashing the "the Seattle Mariners have the third best bullpen ERA in the American League" graphic.

Well now they're sixth in the league thanks to a 10-6 loss to the LA Angels of Anaheim.

Sure, Jarod Washburn gave up a three-run double to Tori Hunter in a five-run fifth inning, but the bullpen - which has been a roller coaster so far this year - didn't make anything better. Don't try to trump up a team's strengths in areas that are actually its weakness.

And I understand stats are stats in baseball but don't tell me for a second that the Mariners have the third best bullpen in the league. Not even close, people knew coming into this season that (a) all Seattle has was right-handers that could throw nothing but fastballs and (b) Brandon Morrow was going to be the closer.

We'll he's unreliable at best as a closer and everyone else in the bullpen could be trusted as much as a timeshare salesman. Your 2009 Seattle Mariners!