PImail (Sports Stories) for 4/2/2010

Sports Mariners primed for AL West breakout Ichiro Suzuki doesn't play down rampant predictions that his Seattle Mariners - baseball's winter darlings following the acquisition of ace Cliff Lee and others - are headed back to the postseason for the first time since 2001. Just like Lee's abs, optimism about M's is strained Jim Moore: Cliff Lee's abdominal injury may look like a minor muscle tweak, but with the pitcher headed to the DL, the Go 2 Guy's optimism has turned to dread. Lawrie suffers first loss in 1-0 thriller to UCLA University of Washington senior Danielle Lawrie suffered her first loss of the season Thursday night in a 1-0 setback to fifth-ranked UCLA in a battle of national powers at Husky Softball Stadium. Elarton pitches two scoreless for White Sox Scott Elarton pitched two scoreless innings in his first start since 2008 and a squad of Chicago White Sox minor leaguers roughed up Ian Snell in a 9-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Thursday.   Wish you had current local news headlines on your web site? Add the Seattle P-I's FREE headline modules to any web page. Get the code here: http://www.seattlepi.com/onyoursite"> Click here to edit your topics Click here to unsubscribe				CHANGES TO PImail PImail will now be delivered in the afternoon instead of the morning and will contain articles that have been updated in the previous 24 hours. We've deleted some content areas and added a few new ones. Update your selections by clicking here.     USER RESOURCES Edit my e-mail address Edit my topics Unsubscribe

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