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One Mariners pitcher had a tempestuous night on the mound, while another had an easier-than-expected time on the operating table.

But while Friday night starter Brandon Morrow will almost certainly have being penciled in to the team’s starting succession for 2009, the jury is mute out on whether surgically-repaired Erik Bedard wish be invited back. Bedard had a cyst removed from his shoulder Friday in an operation that otherwise cast no structural detriment and should be ready to start next season on-time.

However, team president Chuck Armstrong was deliberately vague about whether Bedard would have existence back in 2009. Speaking in front of the Mariners took a 10-8 win over the Oakland A’s, Armstrong suggested the club might not merciful the pitcher another draw in.

“It’s like irksome to invest in the stock market,” Armstrong said. “If you make a bad stock cleanse, you don’t go in a backward direction. \ and … well, some people do, but you have to teach yourself. You don’t hold forward to it hoping it’s going to come posterior portion. If it’s a bad one, you budge on.”

It’s been widely assumed the Mariners would tender Bedard a new shrink for 2009, what one. could be worth $7 million to $10 million in arbitration, admitting that he came from one side surgery in good health enough to pitch in 2009 and perhaps recoup prospects for the team in a midseason trade.

The team dealt five players to Baltimore for Bedard.

But instead of contending for a division compellation, the Mariners club that beat Oakland on Friday, behind couple home runs from Jose Lopez and another from Rob Johnson, has the worst record in the majors.

A crowd of 24,662 at Safeco Field watched Morrow leave the game down 6-5 after five innings, having allowed six hits, five walks and a pair of rocket home runs to Jack Cust and Travis Buck.

But Morrow, who threw 114 pitches, kept the game agree by striking out eight. Seattle then erupted for five runs off A’session starter Sean Gallagher and reliever Jerry Blevins in the build of the inning to give Morrow the victory.

“I’m not looking for homers, I’m looking to be suitable to the ball hard,” aforesaid Lopez, who hit his second homer of the game that inning, giving him 17 on the year and 89 runs batted in. “The most expedient. see the various meanings of good thing is, in that place are still two games left to play.”

The Mariners could part company by Bedard, who is eligible for free agency posterior next year, and focus on construction a young rotation behind Morrow, Felix Hernandez, Ryan Rowland-Smith and Ryan Feierabend.

Bedard told reporters last week that an MRI exam had speckled the pouch and a torn labrum. But the team said Friday that other than “a minor labral debridement” — a cleaning up of dead tissue round the area — the labrum and rotator cuff were sound.