At 8 PM PT tonight, the Mariners will take the field to reawaken a rivalry as old as time, give or take seven years. Before they begin the season against the Oakland Athletics on March 20th, they’ll play the Yomiuri Giants for two exhibition games. Although the Giants have played several times against an MLB All-Star team during the Japan All-Star Series over the past decade, the last time the storied franchise faced off against the Mariners was Seattle’s previous trip to Japan in 2012. Yomiuri took that game 9-3 after pummeling newly-signed RHP Hisashi Iwakuma for six runs in four innings.
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