It wouldn&rsquot be entirely surprising to see Hernandez shut down the Yankees tomorrow

It wouldn’t be entirely surprising to see Hernandez shut down the Yankees tomorrow. If he does, which he should, the Mariners should be in good shape. On the bright side, Ichiro continued his trek back to normality tonight going 2-4. In the last two days, his average has gone from .252 to .273. Like I said a couple days ago, the Mariners need Ichiro to get his bat going.

Although it hasn’t done much the last two days to spark the team, I believe it will. Other notes from the game:Wladimir Balentien and Jeff Clement went 0-5 with three strikeouts Friday But I’m not going to get too upset about it. Balentien is swinging at a bunch of pitches out of the strike zone right now and I think the more he plays, the more he’ll just become more patient Same with Clement.. * Output hit by mine suspension * Gold price could rise up to $1,200 (Adds details) JOHANNESBURG, April 24 (Reuters) – South Africa’s fourthbiggest gold producer, DRDGOLD Ltd (DRDJ.J), said on Friday thatproduction fell 2 percent in the third quarter after it brieflyhalted output at a key mine. The junior gold miner said headline earnings per share fellto 10 cents in the third quarter to the end of March from 13.6cents in the second quarter to end December. Niel Pretorius, the chief executive of DRDGOLD, said thecompany would focus on reducing risk and keeping costs low.

Itwould also seek to improve headline earnings per share andconserve capital for the foreseeable future. “While there is considerable comfort to be drawn from astronger gold price, particularly if accompanied by randweakness, we know we cannot be complacent,” he said. Operating profit rose 38 percent 129.9 million rand ($14.52million), buoyed by a 19 percent rise in the average dollar goldprice to $915/ounce, while the rand/kg gold price rose 15percent to 292,369 rand per kg. The country’s gold producers pay for their costs in rand andreceive most of their earnings in dollars. Spot gold XAU= rose to $911.55 per ounce by 0646 GMT, upmore than 1 percent from New York’s notional close of $902.00.