Five runs in the top of the first inning and more to come to begin a critical four-game series in the Coliseum?

That’s one way to start it – one very needed way to start this for the Mariners.

It’s one game with three to go in Oakland, but the Mariners looked little like the atrocity that was their two-game stay in San Diego to lose both games against the team with the least wins in the National League.

So after being shut down by rookie starters in back-to-back games there, the Mariners then jumped on Oakland’s 25-year-old right-hander Frankie Montas on their way to a 7-1 victory on Thursday in front of 10,844

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