Game 19, Indians at Mariners

Jeff · April 24, 2005 at 12:42 pm · Filed Under Mariners 

Day game today, 1:05 p.m. I’ll be listening during a hopefully pleasant drive north. TV: FSN. Radio: KOMO. Jamie Moyer goes for the good guys.

The M’s offense looks to get well off of Scott Elarton. If they can’t score against a guy who gave up 5 runs in 3.2 to Kansas City in his last start, we’ll know the skid is pronounced.

Personally, I just hope the game goes better than the Seahawks’ draft is going. It may take me 15 imaginary drafts on Madden just to get the bad taste out of my mouth.

Comments

88 Responses to “Game 19, Indians at Mariners”

  1. zzyzx on April 24th, 2005 2:50 pm

    Good to know that I wasn’t the only person yelling at the tv.

    One day at the Safe, Rizz was saying (on the radio) that a player should have been charged with an error on a play. A fan screamed down from the upper deck, “He never touched the ball, Rick!” Rizz tried to argue back on the air, but it was just sad.

  2. Todd on April 24th, 2005 2:56 pm

    At the end of the Mariner bench, Ryan Franklin is quietly fuming, “7 runs? 7 runs? I would kill for 7 Runs…”

  3. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 2:57 pm

    I don’t think you have to touch the ball to have an error called on you. Though you’d never know it from the Safeco scorer.

  4. matt on April 24th, 2005 3:06 pm

    Flipping on the M’s game and hearing Bill Krueger is kind of like reaching in your pants pocket and pulling out a ten spot you forgot was there. It doesn’t rank up there with curing cancer or world peace, but it is a pleasant surprise nonetheless.

    Why does anyone throw a fastball to Olivo anymore, especially when he’s got two strikes?

  5. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 3:07 pm

    The second guy with the baseketball in that Aflac commercial does the worst possible line reading of “Great, I love duck.” I can’t believe they couldn’t have pulled someone off the street to do that commercial who would have done better.

  6. zzyzx on April 24th, 2005 3:13 pm

    That throw the ball back commercial would be so much cooler if it included some actual Seattle landmarks, like the Hit it Here Junior ad.

  7. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 3:15 pm

    But then it wouldn’t be easily portable to every market by just changing the uniform the guy wears and the audiotrack.

  8. Jeff on April 24th, 2005 3:15 pm

    Speaking of commercials, have you heard the new Red Hook anti-The Wave commercial? I vow to increase my consumption of Red Hook just to support that ad.

  9. zzyzx on April 24th, 2005 3:17 pm

    DMZ- well yeah. It was obvious why they didn’t do that, but still…

    Does anyone ever fall for quasi-local stuff anymore?

  10. anotherjeff on April 24th, 2005 3:18 pm

    Ahhhh I really miss Red Hook. Takes some effort to find it around here. Sometimes they have it, and others they dont.

  11. Jonathan on April 24th, 2005 3:20 pm

    Um, 3 walks in a row??? Have your 2005 M’s just put on their greatest display of patience to date?

  12. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 3:20 pm

    Mmm… Redhook.

    Do people fall for it? I don’t know, I like to think the USSM readership’s pretty saavy about his kind of obvious attempted manipulation. I’d have to find some casual fans and ask them, and I don’t happen to have one handy.

  13. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 3:21 pm

    Aaaaaand that’s four walks in a row!

  14. Jonathan on April 24th, 2005 3:21 pm

    And that’s 4!!! Huzzah for our side!

  15. anotherjeff on April 24th, 2005 3:22 pm

    4 consecutive walks!? Leave him in.

  16. Evan on April 24th, 2005 3:23 pm

    Five!

  17. anotherjeff on April 24th, 2005 3:23 pm

    God, put this guy out of his misery!

  18. KW on April 24th, 2005 3:24 pm

    Gee whiz!

  19. Jonathan on April 24th, 2005 3:24 pm

    Wow. Ok, 5. Clearly, Cleveland is leaving him in to not kill their pen in a 7-1 rout in the 8th. Right? Sad for them. Even still, how cool that Seattle is actually capable of this patience-a-thon!

  20. anotherjeff on April 24th, 2005 3:25 pm

    If Hargrove ever left a guy in like that….I dont care if you’re already down 7 runs….I’d be pissed.

  21. zzyzx on April 24th, 2005 3:27 pm

    That’s what you get for swinging Reed!

  22. ahaha on April 24th, 2005 3:28 pm

    Am I the only one that would have been dissatisfied with anything other than a rout today?

  23. KW on April 24th, 2005 3:30 pm

    Hey, leave Jamie in.

  24. Evan on April 24th, 2005 3:32 pm

    I missed the ninth? How many pitches did Eddie throw – like 5?

  25. KW on April 24th, 2005 3:33 pm

    4, to be exact.

  26. pensive on April 24th, 2005 3:33 pm

    Wish Guardado would pitch like that in tighter situations.

    Great game by Moyer

  27. Evan on April 24th, 2005 3:34 pm

    4 pitches.

    That’s a team that just wants to get out of town.

  28. Saul on April 24th, 2005 3:35 pm

    I love this:

    Reed, Sexson, Ibanez, and Winn combine for 0-11 with 6 walks and 6 runs scored.

  29. Colm on April 24th, 2005 3:35 pm

    Not likely that a team that thought it was in with a chance would be up there swinging like that in a tighter situations.

  30. DMZ on April 24th, 2005 3:36 pm

    Who was that guy in the post-game interview confusing the crap out of Olivo? Olivo’s trying to answer a question and the guy goes “But you’re going to get better–” Olivo starts to talk –“we know that, you’re going to get better–” Olivo keeps trying to answer but there’s no question — “thanks for your time.” Olivo looked baffled about what had just happened.

  31. TypicalIdiotFan on April 24th, 2005 3:56 pm

    He probably knew that was a dumb question to ask. I think he was referring Olivo’s illness, not his bat. At least, I HOPE he was referencnig the illness and not the bat. We don’t need our interviewers saying “you suck now, but you wll get better, right?”

  32. msb on April 24th, 2005 5:08 pm

    #55– thank you. No need to hit the word ‘duck’ as if hit were a hanging curveball.
    #57– it’s even sadder when you see the FSN ad in another market before you see it in your own (like the ‘rally cap’ ad they have this year)
    #80-81- does Olivo have the crap currently going through the clubhouse? I assume the postgame interview was Matt Morrison, the guy from Atlanta they got to replace Waltz, who seems to have trouble with anything that doesn’t involve reading cuecards….

  33. Deanna on April 24th, 2005 5:21 pm

    Ah, what a great afternoon to sit outside and watch a Mariners game. I think I could sum up the game with an old nursery rhyme:

    This old man, he fanned one
    Victor got full count and swung
    With a knick-nack, catcher-smack,
    Throw the ball to Boone
    This old man makes batters swoon.

    This old man, struck out two
    Casey at the bat would do
    With a knick-nack, catcher-smack,
    Throw the ball to Boone
    This old man makes batters swoon.

    This old man, got K three
    Inning end for ol’ Ronnie
    With a knick-nack, catcher-smack,
    Throw the ball to Boone
    This old man makes batters swoon.

    This old man, inning four
    Made a double play, no score!
    With a knick-nack, batter-smack,
    Throw the ball to Boone
    Sexson’s tag killed that platoon.

    This old man, inning five,
    Ludwick K’ed, still shutout jive,
    With that knick-nack, catcher-smack,
    Throw the ball to Boone
    This old man is no buffoon.

    This old man, inning seven
    Blake again in strikeout heaven
    Well, the next pitch was a glitch
    Homer for the Boone;
    Their only run all afternoon.

    This old man, he pitched eight
    And he got his fourth win straight
    He’s a no-balk, never-walk,
    Jamie, way to go!
    Just four more ’till two-oh-oh!

  34. Jeff in Fremont on April 24th, 2005 5:45 pm

    BRILLIANT!

  35. dave paisley on April 24th, 2005 6:12 pm

    Wow, what with this and the batgirl flash movie, the ladies are making the guys look, er, lame and uncreative.

  36. Tim in Japan on April 24th, 2005 8:02 pm

    How often do you see 9 runs on only 5 hits. Good patient batting by the Mariners I guess. And lack of control by the opposing pitchers. 5 bases on balls in a row is pretty shabby.

  37. vj on April 25th, 2005 5:34 am

    I just reread the position roundtable on Moyer. So far, he’s been terrific. What is he doing different than last year?

  38. msb on April 25th, 2005 8:22 am

    #87– well, if you ask Moyer: “When Moyer finally reflected a little on what went wrong a year ago, he talked of his control. “When I got hurt last year, I was in the zone, in the middle of the zone, in the middle inner third, the middle outer third,” he said.

    “I’m not going to worry until I see his stuff diminish or a decrease in movement,” Price said. And Price said that wasn’t what he saw last year. Instead, he saw the same thing Moyer did — too many pitches up in the zone. “He’s been through this before,” Price said. “We saw this in 2000 (when Moyer went 13-10 with a 5.49 earned-run average) and he bounced back in 2001 (to go 20-6).””

    That the umpires are back to calling the low strike (most games) might be helping too…