Large human Dae-Ho Lee helps keep first-place Mariners rolling

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My fellow Seattle Mariners fans will back me up: It certainly seems like we haven’t seen too many stretches like this in recent years. And by recent years, I mean “13 years.” After starting 2-6, the Mariners have since gone 14-5 to take over first place in the AL West. Wednesday’s win in Oakland was a rousing come-from-behind victory after Felix Hernandez allowed eight runs in four-plus innings. Considering the Mariners had scored just nine runs for Felix in his first five starts, the game looked over with Seattle trailing 8-4.

Dae-Ho Lee, the Korean free agent by way of Japan who is built more along the lines of Bartolo Colon than Jake Arrieta, slugged a solo home run in the sixth. Leonys Martin then manufactured a run with a bunt single, stolen base and error and sacrifice fly. Another run made it 8-7, and then Lee did this against A’s reliever John Axford in the seventh to give the Mariners a 9-8 lead. From there, the Mariners bullpen did its job and the Mariners improved to 16-11. In Seattle, a cult hero was born.

Man.

Dae-Ho, man. I freaking love this guy. #Mariners

— Joe Veyera (@JoeVeyera) May 4, 2016

Dae-Ho Lee needs to untuck his jersey. And keep a candy bar in his back pocket. That would complete the look.

— Dave Softy Mahler (@Softykjr) May 4, 2016

For good measure, here are Lee’s home run calls on Korean TV

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