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In the wake of the 18-inning game Tuesday night and Wednesday morning , the Orioles have made a special call for additional pitching depth.  Top pitching prospect Dylan Bundy is headed for Seattle and could be there in time for tonight's series finale against the Mariners at Safeco Field. It makes sense. The Orioles needed seven relievers to pitch 12 2/3 scoreless innings after Wei-Yin Chen left the game in the sixth inning and have used nine different relievers during the first two games against the M's. The plan was for Bundy to be shut down after his playoff appearance for the Bowie Baysox and sent to Instructional League in Florida, but team officials obviously decided that whatever innings he might pitch down in Florida would be of more value to the major league club.

SEATTLE -   After winning three of four in Oakland to begin their season-longest 11-game road trip, the Orioles headed to Seattle looking to capture another series and, perhaps, guarantee a winning West Coast jaunt without yet stepping foot in Southern California. They even caught a major break when Seattle's all-word ace Felix Hernandez was not scheduled to pitch in this series. But just when you think you have baseball figured out, a guy like Aaron Harang can muck things up. Seattle's veteran right-hander, who was fighting for his job, threw six solid innings and the Mariners roughed up Orioles lefty Wei-Yin Chen for an 8-3 blowout in the rubber match of the three-game series.

Here are some nuggets from Buck Showalter's pregame news conference in Oakland: ** Chris Tillman (elbow) threw a successful bullpen on Thursday and will likely throw one more Saturday before taking the starting assignment Monday in Seattle. It will be Tillman's first outing since leaving the mound on Sept. 2 due to elbow ligament inflammation. The Orioles still list their starter for Sunday as TBA and Showalter said he hasn't made the decision yet - he wants to see who he will need in the bullpen during this series.

SEATTLE -- The Orioles dropped the rubber match of their three-game series against the Seattle Mariners, 8-3, at Safeco Field on Wednesday night. Here's what some of the key figures were saying in the clubhouse afterward: Wei-Yin Chen on his lack of command: “I think I couldn't establish the first pitch strike. That cost me the game tonight.” Chen on whether he tried to establish his fastball as his out pitch: “Not really. I just tried to make a pitch and I couldn't make it today.

Hanger Orthopedic Group Inc. of Bethesda announced yesterday the acquisition of MODEL and Instrument Development Corp., also known as Seattle Limb Systems, a manufacturer of components for artificial limbs. Terms were not disclosed.Ivan R. Sabel, Hanger's chairman and chief executive, said Hanger has been "a substantial customer" of Seattle Limb, which will remain in Seattle, and expects to realize savings by buying a major supplier.Hanger operates 244 centers in 32 states to fit patients with braces and artificial limbs.

SEATTLE -- Its setting on Puget Sound, surrounded by the Cascade and Olympic Mountains, has prompted many to call Seattle one of the most livable cities in the world. For those in the real estate industry, it may also be one of the most bankable."Seattle's physical beauty is only half the story," Seattle Mayor Norman Rice said. "It also has a lot to do with the spirit and commitment of the people in the city. The development and business communities as a whole are dedicated to the well-being of the city, and that is important."

In a remarkable feat of seismic detective work, five teams of scientists have gathered compelling evidence to show that a strong, shallow earthquake about 1,000 years ago rocked the ground precisely where Seattle stands now.A similar quake today -- well within the bounds of probability -- could churn the ground violently beneath the modern city and damage a wide and heavily populated region, according to experts assessing the new findings.Although the Puget Sound region is not known for constant, damaging quakes, as are the infamous San Francisco and Southern California segments of the San Andreas Fault, seismologists in the Seattle area say the new findings indicate that the quake danger there may be greater than scientists had believed.

It's 8 a.m. on a typically gray morning in Seattle, and Pike Place Market is bustling with activity as shopkeepers gear up for the 9 a.m. opening.A fish-market employee flops fat flounders on a bed of ice; at his feet, clams and crabs overflow tubs. Florists cart buckets of bright sunflowers, deep purple irises and a rainbow of gerbera daisies out to the sidewalk. Trucks pull up under the red neon Public Market sign, and men unload cases of fresh carrots, celery and other produce.Wherever I wander in this vast warren of buildings and alleys studded with shops, restaurants and open-air stalls, there's the pungent aroma of fish mingled with the smell of fresh bread and spicy Chinese food.

SEATTLE - Federal authorities have arrested a 37-year-old Seattle area man they say made ricin in his apartment from mail-order castor seeds. Robert M. Alberg was charged in federal court Friday with knowingly possessing a biological agent or toxin and was booked into the federal detention center in SeaTac pending indictment, U.S. attorney's spokesman Lawrence Lincoln said Monday. Alberg's next court appearance is set for tomorrow, when a judge could order him to undergo a mental evaluation, Lincoln said.

SEATTLE -- Flushed with success from its earlier recycling ventures, Seattle is moving into a new field: toilets.The Emerald City is sending 200 used potties to Auce, Latvia, where they are to be used in a hospital. The unusual shipment was engineered by Mike Jansevics, a Latvian emigre who now lives in Shelton, Wash.At his urging, the International Rotary Club is planning to renovate a three-story office building in Auce (pronounced ow-seh) for a hospital.The not-really-portable potties were collected by the Seattle Water Department, which has begun paying commercial building owners $135 for each water-guzzling toilet replaced with a water-stingy one.The department figured it would save money by avoiding or deferring the cost of building a new reservoir.

SEATTLE - Before Tuesday night's game against the Seattle Mariners, the Orioles demoted their previous night's starter, Zach Britton, and called up another arm for their bullpen. Cycling in fresh relievers has become a necessity for a club that continues to rely on a superb relief corps to keep them going. In a 7-2 win over the Mariners on Tuesday night, the Orioles posted four runs in the first, had a 13-hit attack and were in control all game. And yet manager Buck Showalter again had to ask his bullpen to pitch four full innings - using four relievers  - to secure the victory, which snapped the club's modest two-game losing streak.

Right-hander Zach Clark, the former UMBC player who was added to the club's 40-man roster this offseason, will be activated by the Orioles tonight in Seattle, an organizational source said. He will provide some bullpen insurance as the Orioles are in the middle of an 11-game road trip on the West Coast. Clark is a pretty incredible story. A non-drafted free agent out of UMBC in 2006, the Newark, Del., native was signed by the club's local baseball guru, Dean Albany. Clark, who turns 30 in July, is in his eighth year in the minors without ever getting a big-league sniff until now. He may be returning soon to the minors -- the Orioles under Dan Duquette are known for shuffling players back and forth.

SEATTLE - Playing against the Orioles has to be viewed as just another game, Seattle Mariners infielder Robert Andino said before the teams' three-game series at Safeco Field kicked off. And then, Monday night, Andino went out and played a key role in beating his old team - hitting an RBI single to give the Mariners a lead they never lost and handling nine balls for outs while starting at second base in Seattle's 6-2 victory. Make no mistake: Andino, whom the Orioles traded to the Mariners this offseason for minor league outfielder Trayvon Robinson, wanted to remind his former organization what it gave up. But you'll never hear him say that.

Catcher Chris Snyder, whom the Orioles acquired Sunday from the Los Angeles Angels in a deal for minor league right-hander Rob Delaney, was at Safeco Field on Monday, but he has not been activated. The Orioles wanted to give Snyder a day to get acclimated, but they also are waiting on more information about injured reserve catcher Taylor Teagarden (dislocated left thumb), who will see a hand specialist on Tuesday. The initial prognosis for Teagarden's return is three to four weeks, but if it ends up being two months, the club could move Teagarden from the 15-day to 60-day DL. That way they would not have to make a corresponding move to add Snyder to the 40-man roster.

Zach Britton had been wondering for four days whether he'd get into a big league game against the Oakland A's. He didn't. And that's not a bad thing. Because now the 25-year-old lefty gets the call to start Monday night at Safeco Field against the Seattle Mariners in what will be Britton's 2013 big league debut. "I am definitely excited. I just want to kind of continue what I was doing in Norfolk and not try to change anything," said Britton, who was 1-0 with a 1.93 ERA in three Triple-A games.

OAKLAND, Calif. - When Zach Britton left the Orioles in March, he felt like he wasn't in a situation in which he could succeed in the majors. The 25-year-old left-hander believed he needed to go the minors and recapture what made him so effective when he first arrived in Baltimore in 2011. For the most part that meant regaining the feel and command of his heavy sinkerball. "I needed to get back to what I did best, throw the sinkerball. And that's what I kind of got back to down at Norfolk," said Britton, who was promoted from Triple-A on Thursday to, at least initially, provide bullpen depth.

SEATTLE -- The Washington Bullets no sooner had headed to the Northwest than they began heading south, losing to the Seattle SuperSonics, 111-89, at the Seattle Center Coliseum last night.Seattle's Olden Polynice pointed the way, scoring 19 of his career-high 27 points in the second half, as the Sonics extended a 12-point halftime lead that reached 25 with two minutes to go.The 7-foot Polynice, a fourth-year center, scored 17 of 24 Seattle points during an eight-minute stretch that began with a pair of free throws in the final minute of the third quarter.

SEATTLE - Boeing Co., which has halved jetliner production in the past year, will sell or lease seven underused buildings at its 747 plant north of Seattle, the company said yesterday. The moves will affect 1,867 workers. The majority of workers will transfer to other buildings at the plant in Everett, Wash., company spokeswoman Sandy Angers said. Boeing might eliminate a "very small" number of jobs as it completes the move over the next two years, she said. Boeing, the world's biggest maker of aircraft, has cut almost 30,000 jobs in the past year to cope with a slump in air travel exacerbated by the terrorist attacks last year and the weak economy.

OAKLAND, Calif -- The Orioles haven't named a starter for Monday's game in Seattle, and one possibility is 36-year-old veteran Freddy Garcia, who is 3-0 with a 2.81 ERA in four starts at Triple-A Norfolk. When Garcia signed, he agreed to make five starts before a decision regarding his future had to be made. Tuesday, he lasted eight innings, gave up four hits and a run and struck out four. His fastball velocity was in the high 80s. “Freddy had a good outing last outing. As Ron Johnson our Triple-A manager put it so well, Freddy was Freddy,” Orioles manager Buck Showalter said.