SEATTLE (AP) -Ken Griffey Jr. has hit his 613th career home run and 400th as a Mariner in his second home game of his return season in Seattle.
The 39-year-old active home run leader, returning triumphantly to the team that spawned his superstardom as a teen in 1989, turned sharply on a 2-1 fastball from Los Angeles Angels starter Jered Weaver in the fifth inning for his second home run of the year.
Griffey gave his vintage, no-doubt reaction to the solo shot: a dropped bat at his feet and long stare. He watched the ball land three rows into the bleachers beyond right-center field to give Seattle a 3-2 lead, three pitches after Endy Chavez had tied the game with a solo home run.
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