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Millwood hurls masterful two-hit shutout, his first since 2003.

ROCKIES SIXTH: Sorry, major wireless issues tonight at Coors. Millwood lost his no-hitter with two outs in the sixth on an infield single off Kyle Seager’s glove — though the official score didn’t announce his decision until Jordan Pacheco had delivered a clean single to center, on which Scutaro was thrown out at third to end the inning. 3-0 Mariners.

ROCKIES FOURTH: Another 1-2-3 inning for Millwood, albeit with a rocket at third baseman Kyle Seager by leadoff man Jordan Pacheco. Through four, Rockies only baserunner is a one-out walk by Dexter Fowler in the third. 2-0 Mariners.

MARINERS FOURTH: Smoak delivered a one-out single and is now 11-for-31 (.355) on this road trip. He was promptly erased on a 4-6-3 double-play ball by Jaso. Millwood still hasn’t given up a hit. 2-0 Mariners.

MARINERS THIRD: Ichiro gets a two-out single but Seager strikes out. 2-0 Mariners.

MARINERS SECOND: Mike Carp, lugging a .132 average, lofted a homer to dead center for a 2-0 Mariner lead.

ROCKIES FIRST: Nice easy 1-2-3 inning for Millwood against his old Rockies teammates. He made nine starts for Colorado last year. 1-0 Mariners.

MARINERS FIRST: After a one-out triple by Michael Saunders, Ichiro grounded weakly to shortstop, with Saunders having to hold. The Mariners have been 2-for-43 with runners in scoring position in their six losses on this road trip. But Seager came through with a clutch two-out single, as he has done often, scoring Saunders for a 1-0 Mariner lead.

I’m trying to wrap my arms around this weird 6:40 start, but it just doesn’t feel right.

I asked Dustin Ackley and Kyle Seager about facing their old college teammate, Alex White. They’ve each faced him only once as a pro, earlier this year in spring training. Ackley grounded out and Seager grounded into a double play.

“I faced him a lot in college, scrimmages and what not,” Seager said. “I’ve seen him throw many, many times. I think we’re both familiar with each other, same with Dustin. Dustin has seen him just as much as I have. We played together in high school, all three of us. We go way back.”

“He was always a competitor,” Ackley said. “He was a bulldog that would go out there, give it all he had. I played with him in college, and I played with him in some summer ball before that. He’s always been a fun guy to play behind and with, that’s for sure.”

In their freshman year, their North Carolina team lost in the College World Series final to Oregon State.

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ROCKIES FIRST: Nice easy 1-2-3 inning for Millwood against his old Rockies teammates. He made nine starts for Colorado last year. 1-0 Mariners.

MARINERS FIRST: After a one-out triple by Michael Saunders, Ichiro grounded weakly to shortstop, with Saunders having to hold. The Mariners have been 2-for-43 with runners in scoring position in their six losses on this road trip. But Seager came through with a clutch two-out single, as he has done often, scoring Saunders for a 1-0 Mariner lead.

I’m trying to wrap my arms around this weird 6:40 start, but it just doesn’t feel right.

I asked Dustin Ackley and Kyle Seager about facing their old college teammate, Alex White. They’ve each faced him only once as a pro, earlier this year in spring training. Ackley grounded out and Seager grounded into a double play.

“I faced him a lot in college, scrimmages and what not,” Seager said. “I’ve seen him throw many, many times. I think we’re both familiar with each other, same with Dustin. Dustin has seen him just as much as I have. We played together in high school, all three of us. We go way back.”

“He was always a competitor,” Ackley said. “He was a bulldog that would go out there, give it all he had. I played with him in college, and I played with him in some summer ball before that. He’s always been a fun guy to play behind and with, that’s for sure.”

In their freshman year, their North Carolina team lost in the College World Series final to Oregon State.

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Just in case you missed our small item on it yesterday, buried within a mountain of other news, Mike Carp says the Greg Halman t-shirts should be ready for sale at Mariners Team Stores next month.

Carp has to get the shirt re-designed from an original version that included a Jackie Robinson quote, since representatives of Robinson’s estate declined permission for it to be used. There was some confusion when Carp spoke yesterday and said it was the Jackie Robinson Foundation that had declined use of the quote, but that was incorrect, since the foundation awards scholarships to minority students to attend college and has no relationship with Robinson’s estate, nor legal say on any licensing issues involving the ex-ballplayer or use of his name.

So, it was representatives of Robinson’s estate that won’t allow the quote to be used, which is why there has been a three-month delay in getting the shirts into stores. It took a while for a decision to be sent back to the Mariners.

Long story short, Carp plans to bring the new design idea — minus the quote — to his t-shirt manufacturing friend in the Anaheim, Calif. area when the Mariners play the Angels early next month. After that, he said, they should be ready to go.

Carp had planned to donate proceeds from shirt sales to Halman’s family, which incurred funeral expenses and have ongoing legal costs associated with Jason Halman, younger brother of Greg, who was arrested for the ballplayer’s November killing. Jason Halman remains in custody and under psychiatric evaluation in The Netherlands.

For now, Carp said that plan still remains in effect. But he and others are also looking into the possibility of having a Greg Halman statue erected at Cheney Stadium in Tacoma.

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