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Mariners catcher Mike Marjama grimaced in pain after taking a wallop of an Edwin Encarnacion swing off of his left glove hand.

With Mike Zunino already sitting because of stiffness in his side, there was no way Marjama was leaving that game.

“Oh, heck no,” Marjama said. “No. Not at all.

“If it’s dislocated, broken – we’ll tape it to another finger and just get going. So really there was no option, so had to suck it up. It’s part of the game.”

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