"There were few answers Saturday afternoon following the scuffle in the Mariners' dugout on Friday night.
Chone Figgins sat at his locker but Casey Kotchman became his unofficial spokesperson telling waiting media that Figgins was not ready to talk about it yet. When approached again later, Figgins chose not to speak.
That left manager Don Wakamatsu to comment. The team had what Wakamatsu said was a five-minute meeting to talk about last night, accountability and coming together as a club.
"I said it last night, there's a lot of guys in this clubhouse and coaches, we want to win every ballgame we're in," Wakamatsu said. "There (are) a lot of emotions that fly. We're playing some pretty good baseball. We talk about the offensive woes, but you look at last night's ballgame, there (are) a lot of positives we can take out of that. It was a 2-1 game against a good club over there and guys didn't give up. That's the kind of stuff we talked about."
Wakamatsu, Figgins and general manager Jack Zduriencik met earlier in the day.
"Again, it's more about the play, it's not so much about the individual," Wakamatsu said. "There's some accountability, not just him, we're asking of everybody. Again, when there (are) tight ballgames and one or two plays affect the outcome it seems to be more critical, obviously."
Wakamatsu thought the meeting was productive and everyone is on the same page.
"I think no one wants to come out of a ballgame, no one wants to be put in that situation whether it's Chone or anybody else," Wakamatsu said. "It's never an easy situation. But it kind of shows you more about how much we care down here.
"There (are) certain situations that you handle during the season that aren't public and it happened to be public last night. We address every issue that happens in a ballgame, we talk about it, we handle it different ways. Last night it happened to be public.""