San Diego 17, Seattle 4

PEORIA, Ariz. (AP) -- Doug Mirabelli hit a three-run homer and the San Diego Padres finished with 20 hits in a 17-4 win over the Seattle Mariners on Saturday.

The defending NL West champion Padres got all their runs in the final six innings, taking a 10-1 lead in the sixth when Mirabelli homered off Scott Atchison, Seattle's third pitcher and the loser. Atchison pitched 1 2-3 innings, giving up eight runs on nine hits.

San Diego had seven extra base hits, including a two-run triple by Josh Barfield.

"We woke up the bats," manager Bruce Bochy said. "That's what we were hoping for, what happened today. We had some gappers, extra-base hits with runners in scoring position. It's something we were missing last year."

In their first two official spring games, Mariners pitchers have surrendered 32 runs and 41 hits. Seattle lost to the Chicago Cubs 15-8 on Friday.

"We just haven't pitched well, especially today," manager Mike Hargrove said. "From about the fourth inning on, we were behind hitters the whole time and everything was up in the strike zone. I don't care if you're in spring training or in Little League, you're going get hit."

Seattle starter Jesse Foppert was the exception against the Padres. The right-hander struck out two and walked one in two shutout innings.

The Mariners are coming off their second straight last-place finish in the AL West and a 93-loss season under Hargrove. But they were seventh in the AL with a 4.49 ERA last season, while they were last in the league with a .256 batting average.

On the bench, Hargrove and new pitching coach Rafael Chaves talked earnestly about what they were watching on the field.

"The guys we saw on the mound today, it was their first time out," Hargrove said. "They hadn't pitched competitively since October. We've got to be a little bit patient and give people a chance to kind of settle in and settle down and pitch like they can.

"But if this is two or three weeks ago and we're seeing this out of some people, I'm not sure they'll still be here to tell you the truth," he added.

The Mariners got a home run from Jose Lopez in the sixth off veteran Doug Brocail, but the 25-year-old Foppert was their biggest bright spot. Foppert is trying to earn a spot in the team's rotation after coming to Seattle last July in a trade that sent outfielder Randy Winn to San Francisco.

Foppert, once one of the top pitching prospects in baseball, had Tommy John surgery in September 2003. He said he was anxious before his spring debut.

"At 9 this morning, I wished the game was starting at 9:30," Foppert said. "I wanted to get the first one over with and out of the way."

He said he was happy with the way he threw.

"Compared to last spring, it's like night and day," he said. "All last year was so up and down, I never knew how I would feel showing up to the field."

Game notes
The Mariners used 19-year-old SS Matt Tuiasosopo at 3B in a five-inning B game Saturday morning against the Padres, but Hargrove said the team likes him where he's at. "Don't read anything into it," Hargrove said. "He's still primarily a shortstop. He's been taking ground balls at third base, but there are no plans to move him there."

Notes: The Mariners used 19-year-old SS Matt Tuiasosopo at 3B in a five-inning B game Saturday morning against the Padres, but Hargrove said the team likes him where he's at. "Don't read anything into it," Hargrove said. "He's still primarily a shortstop. He's been taking ground balls at third base, but there are no plans to move him there." The Mariners appear to be set for the present and future at SS with slick-fielding Yuniesky Betancourt, 24. The Mariners already have converted SS Adam Jones, their first-round pick in June 2003, into a center fielder. The 6-foot-2, 210-pound Tuiasosopo, from Woodinville High School in the Seattle area and the younger brother of former Washington quarterback Marques Tuiasosopo, now of the Oakland Raiders, was a third-round selection of Seattle in the 2004 June draft. He hit .276 with six homers and 45 RBI in 107 games at Class A Wisconsin last season. Tuiasosopo got a reported $2.3 million signing bonus, a record for a third-round selection, from the Mariners after signing a national letter of intent to play football at Washington. In the B game, Tuiasosopo was 0-for-2.