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10:10 pm EDT Mon Jul 5, 2010

Felix Hernandez probably won’t win 19 games like he did last season, but he’s beginning to recapture that form for the Seattle Mariners. He’ll try to win his fourth straight decision Monday night when the Mariners open a three-game home series against the Kansas City Royals. Hernandez turned in a breakout 2009, going 19-5 with a 2.49 ERA and finishing second to Kansas City’s Zack Greinke for the AL Cy Young Award. It took only 13 starts this season for Hernandez to match that loss total. The right-hander, though, has been overpowering in going 3-0 with a 1.26 ERA in his last four outings. He fell one out shy of a complete game in the first contest of that stretch before going the full nine innings in each of the next three.

Hernandez was brilliant Tuesday in a 7-0 win at the New York Yankees, striking out a season-high 11 in a two-hitter. He has 37 strikeouts over his last four starts, and 116 on the season - tied for third-most in the AL. Hernandez is 3-2 with a 2.90 ERA in six career starts against Kansas City, including a 3-1 road loss April 26 in which he allowed three runs over seven innings. Royals leading hitter David DeJesus is 7 for 20 against him. Greinke is scheduled to pitch Tuesday, and has never faced Hernandez. Kansas City will instead give the ball to Brian Bannister to open this series. Bannister has failed to reach the fifth inning in three of his last four outings, going 1-3 with a 9.53 ERA in that span. He lasted four innings and yielded four runs last Tuesday in a 4-2 loss to the Chicago White Sox. Manager Ned Yost defended the latest poor outing from his right-hander.