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Mariners success defies simple explanation.(The Dallas Morning News)
By Evan Grant
ANAHEIM, Calif. _ This might be the most difficult thing he does all day, so Mark McLemore slumps deep into his locker, furrows his brow and squeezes his face into a stare of deep deliberation.
It is a common look in the Seattle clubhouse these days. All you have to do is ask one of the Mariners to explain the team's improbable, impossibly good first half of the 2001 season. It's not that McLemore or his teammates resent the question. Try as hard as they might, they simply don't have a fact-based explanation for the 58-21 record they took into Sunday night's game at Anaheim.
"I'd love to rattle off five or 10 or 15 reasons why," said McLemore, who returns to The Ballpark in Arlington on Monday with the Mariners for a four-game series against his former Rangers teammates. "But the truth is I have no idea. There isn't always an explanation."
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Source: HighBeam Research, Mariners success defies simple explanation.(The Dallas Morning News)