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O’Malley prepped to pitch before improbable comeback
- Updated: June 3, 2016
ARLINGTON — How crazy was Thursday’s 16-13 victory by the Mariners, as they became just the seventh team in Major League history to overcome a deficit of 10-plus runs on the road and pull out a victory?
At one point in the fifth inning, with his team trailing 12-2, manager Scott Servais had utility infielder Shawn O’Malley throwing in the cage behind the Mariners’ dugout in case he decided to use a position player to pitch in order to save his bullpen for the upcoming three-game series in Texas.
Two innings later, O’Malley found himself in the game … but at the plate instead, driving in the go-ahead run with a single in the middle of Seattle’s unprecedented string of seven RBI singles with two outs in a nine-run seventh.
The oddity was not lost on O’Malley, who like most everyone acknowledged he’d never been involved in a game quite like that one.
“I was in the cage getting loose and you could hear their [TV] announcer pretty much calling it their win already, which was understandable,” O’Malley said. “But I was sitting there thinking, ‘Man, what if we come back and actually beat these …
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