Baltimore Orioles (20-24) At Seattle Mariners (20-25)

Fresh off their first series sweep of the season, the Seattle Mariners look to extend their winning streak to a season-high four games when they welcome the Baltimore Orioles to Safeco Field tonight for the opener of a three-game series.
The Mariners kicked off their current six-game homestand in fine fashion, taking all three contests of an interleague set with the San Diego Padres over the weekend. Seattle completed the sweep with a 10-8 victory on Sunday.
Carl Everett went 3-for-5 with a home run and Raul Ibanez belted a three-run shot to lead the Mariners' offense. Ichiro Suzuki also finished 3-for-5 to extend his hitting streak to 15 games, while scoring twice and adding an RBI.
Felix Hernandez (3-5) got the win for Seattle despite allowing seven runs on seven hits in six innings of action. J.J. Putz earned his sixth save with a scoreless ninth.
Seattle will try to continue its winning form behind one-time Oriole Jamie Moyer, who has just one win this season despite a solid 3.72 earned run average. The 43-year-old has been a victim of poor run support, as the Mariners have scored just three runs in his four defeats.
His lone victory in 2006 came at the expense of the Orioles on April 30, when he surrendered three runs and six hits in 6 2/3 innings of work in a 4-3 Seattle triumph.
Moyer, who pitched for Baltimore for three years from 1993-96, has owned his former club at Safeco Field. In 12 starts against the Orioles in Seattle, the veteran lefty is 9-0 with a 2.28 ERA. He has made 16 overall home starts versus Baltimore and is an amazing 11-0 with a 2.09 ERA in those games.
In 29 career appearances (27 starts) against the O's, Moyer owns a dominating 17-3 record with a 2.99 ERA.
He will try to rebound from his worst performance of the year, however. Wednesday in Oakland, Moyer was tagged for seven runs -- five earned -- and a season-high 11 hits over six innings in a 7-2 loss.
Baltimore counters with a tough lefty of its own in Erik Bedard, who moved to 5-2 after holding the Red Sox to a run and two hits over seven frames Wednesday in Camden Yards. The Canadian has struggled on the road this season, posting a 1-2 mark with a 6.14 ERA in three starts.
Bedard is 1-1 with a 3.09 ERA in two career starts against Seattle. He lost to the Mariners at Safeco Field last September despite giving up just two runs in five innings.
The Orioles come in off back-to-back defeats to the nearby Washington Nationals, including a 3-1 setback on Sunday. Corey Patterson went 2-for-4 and Miguel Tejada knocked in the lone run for Baltimore, which mustered just six hits on the afternoon.
Bruce Chen (0-5) continued his early-season struggles, yielding three runs on seven hits with two walks and four strikeouts through four innings to take the loss. He actually lowered his earned run average to 8.08.
The Mariners won two of three games at Camden Yards to end April, but Baltimore is 15-7 versus Seattle since the start of the 2004 campaign. The O's won seven of 10 meetings between the clubs last season.