Ricky Romero showed the good and the bad

Ricky Romero went head-to-head with King Felix and the Mariners and it looked very good through the order he allowed only a single to Kyle Seager and he was doubled up on a double play ball off the bat of Kendrys Morales and 33 pitches later he was through the first three innings. To start the fourth inning Ricky started Michael Saunders with a first pitch strike to make it 8 of the first 10 batters he faced with a strike but that is were everything goes off the rails as Saunders walks and Seager took him deep and Romero began felling discomfort on his middle finger on his left pitching hand and he hit Morales and k'd Michael Morse before loading the bases by walking Jason Bay and Justin Smoak which lead to a RBi single to Dustin Ackley before having Jesus Montero hit him in his left pitching arm but was able to get the force at home and then got Brendan Ryan to pop out to end the inning. So Romero went through the order the second time all in the fourth inning and gave up 3 runs on two hits, three walks, and a hit batter and it was the same 2012 Romero who could not handle the heat and was wanting out of the kitchen and was not able to and it took 37 pitches to get out of the fourth inning. King Felix allowed 6 base runners over 8 innings and he throw only 95 pitches and the Jays hitters helped the King out by hitting the ball three times to Kyle Seager who the first two times went 5-4-3 for the double play and the third he caught a line drive by Maicer Izturis with runners on the corners and Colby Rasmus was so excited at first that he moved to second and was doubled up for the second out of the eighth inning which came after Edwin hit a double play ball in the seventh and erased a Bautista single. In the end Romero has more work to do but for his second outing after spring training with the first being to a high single A club Tom Mehegan