With their 8 to 4 win vs the Baltimore O'rioles Wenesday night, the Seattle Mariners have moved percentage points ahead of Detroit for the American league Wild Card lead.
Seattle has been baseball's suprised team and have become the AL West leading Angels, toughest competitor for the AL West while being only 3 games back.
The Mariners have done with a combination of a strong bullpen, timely hitting, and good enough starting pitching lead by ace King Felix.
Ichiro the most popular Mariner was set to become a free agent and was tired of all the Mariner's recent struggles over the last few years.
However with a great start to this season, the Mariners staff were able to locked up Ichiro to a five-year extension is worth $90 million in salary and a signing bonus combined, but added interest paid on deferred money takes its total value higher.
This deal will keep Ichiro in a Mariners uniform through 2012 and will allow the 2007 All-Star Game MVP to set the Mariners lineup for years to come.
Seattle is set to have their first winning season since 2003 and people all around Seattle can feel and hear the buzz in the year that this could be a special season.
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