Mariners Say Sayanara To Reds in 8-1 Win

The Seattle Mariners have one more game in Arizona before flying to Japan on Thursday.

Kevin Millwood pitched five innings trying to comeback from a lost 2011 season.  Jeff Francis started for Cincinnati and also pitched five decent frames for Cincinnati.  Francis is a longshot to make the team.  Johnny Cueto pitched in a minor league game against Charlotte the White Sox Triple A team.  Cueto threw 3 2/3 innings and gave up four runs on five hits.  He walked two, struck out two and allowed two home runs.

Francis gave up a two-run home run to Carlos Peguaro in a three run third.  Peguaro's blast followed a bloop hit by Vinnie Catricala.  Later in the inning Munenori Kaswasaki dropped a bloop hit between Ryan Ludwick and Zack Cozart.  He went to third on an bad pick off throw by Francis and scored on a sacrifice fly by Luis Rodriguez.  Peguaro added a two-run single off Andrew Brackman.

"Francis threw the ball good.  The pitch to Peguaro wasn't a bad pitch really.  He went down and got it," Dusty Baker said.  "It was a bloop and a blast."

Brandon Phillips singled twice off Millwood and scored on a double by Cozart.  It was Cozart's fourth extra base hit in four games.

Sean Marshall was dominant in his only inning.  He gave up a ground single and struck out the other three hitters he faced.  Marshall gave up four runs in his first two spring games but has not allowed a run in his last four outings., while striking out nine.

The Reds had more chances than the scoreboard indicated.

"We left a lot of runners on base," Baker said.

Kanekoa Texeira and Andrew Brackman combined to allow five runs.