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Mariners eye home-and-home sweep of Rockies

SEATTLE -- Bud Black admits it. He would have lost on "Jeopardy!"

In which major league ballpark were more home runs hit than any other in 2016?

The Colorado Rockies manager said he never would have responded, "What is Safeco Field?"

"Really? No way!" Black said when told there were more homers hit in Seattle than at the Rockies' Coors Field last season. "I would have never thought that. That's astonishing."

Black, who started his 15-year major league pitching career with the Mariners across the street at the since-razed Kingdome, and most of his players likely would have answered their home ballpark, long known as a hitter's haven.