"With their bench already frighteningly thin, and the status of Milton Bradley still up in the air, the Mariners were forced to make a roster move, placing Bradley on the restricted list and and calling up Michael Saunders from Triple A Tacoma.

"We had a few options and if you put a player on the DL, it's a minimum of 15 days," GM Jack Zduriencik said. "We chose to put him on a restricted list because in our estimation he'll be away from the club probably for five, six, seven days, something like that for sure."

Saunders wasn't at the ball park pregame, and manager Don Wakamatsu anticipated he would be at the stadium by 6 p.m.

Bradley was in street clothes and met with Wakamatsu and Zduriencik for about a half hour before the game and left the stadium. Why? Because he can't be with the team when he's on the restricted list"