Padre Notebook : Williams’ Mariners Fall to San Diego, 7-1

Seattle Manager Dick Williams agreed that Monday’s exhibition game against his former team--the Padres--was a little special.

“Well, when you’ve been with a club and things didn’t work out after you’ve had a winner--and they’d never had a winner before and probably won’t have one again--you like to beat them,” he said before Monday’s game.

The Padres won, 7-5. Third baseman Kevin Mitchell hit a two-run homer to left in the first inning, and catcher Benito Santiago hit his second homer of the spring in the second inning to make it 3-0.

Pitcher Eric Show, in his first outing of the spring, gave up two runs on three hits in the bottom of the second. He said his elbow, which gave him problems last season, did not bother him. What was bothering him was a slight case of the flu.

The Mariners took a 5-3 lead off reliever Brian Snyder in the sixth inning, but second baseman Joey Cora scored on a sacrifice fly by shortstop Gary Green, and then left fielder John Kruk homered to right in the eighth to tie.

The Padres scored two in the ninth. Catcher Mark Parent doubled. Bip Roberts pinch-ran and took third on a botched Mariner pickoff play. He scored the go-ahead run on Cora’s sacrifice fly to deep right. Center fielder Stan Jefferson (2 for 4 in his first start of the spring) then doubled, took third on a fly to center and scored on outfielder Shawn Abner’s single.

Reliever Lance McCullers pitched the last two innings without allowing a hit.

Add Williams: He says he wasn’t surprised the Padres finished fourth in 1986.

“Not at all (surprised), “ he said. “Not one bit. The only thing I was disappointed in was what happened to LaMarr (Hoyt). That was unfortunate. I thought the world of him.”