Game 58, Mariners at Marlins
Jeff · June 9, 2005 at 3:51 pm · Filed Under Mariners
The Mariners try to reel in the fish (hey, you knew someone had to say it eventually) tonight in the final game of a three-game series. After this, the sublime magic of interleague play continues with a slate of games against the Senators/Gnats.
Aaron “Slow Hand” Sele versus Josh Beckett tonight. TV FSN, Radio KOMO.
Positivity corner: at least Beckett throws with his right arm.
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huzzah! Ichiro lives! and wow, actual hits with RISP! seems like most of the runs in this series have been from errors, sacrifice flies, RBI groundouts, etc.
This is the lineup we expected coming into the year.
In honor of Beltre and Sexson the Mariners should switch leagues next season.
This is so great. Ichiro is hitting, we’re winning, small ball lives, I just found my old Buddy Holly cassettes, ah…
Good news is that this shows they can smash N.L. they will only get better with A.L as time goes by.
Wow… wish we had more games like this.
Sure is nice to be on the right side of one of these innings. Looks like DMZ’s article on 8 run leads is timely . . .
Wow, when was the last time the M’s scored 6+ runs in an inning? Woot!
Mike Morse has played a great game as well. I think he’s 5-10 in this series. Hope he keeps it up.
Ok we’ve gone around in the order. I’m scared. I’m not used to this. I dont remember a game this year that I wanted to turn off because we were crushing the other team.
And then there was Boone….
At least the M’s got their rally’s worth out of that one before Boone worked his magic.
Four dps. Just a guess but Sele has to have the most dps to innings in the Mariners rotation.
Dobby the elf has now struck out more than twice as often as he has got on base
That was a pretty strikeout by the Dobber. How nice it must be to have a pretty swing.
Just looked at Sele’s line — 1 K, 1 BB, 0 HR. I guess he’s kind of a No True Outcomes pitcher. Do the fielders look tired?
I don’t understand; Sele throws 7 innings on only 77 pitches and gets yanked? I mean, I know it’s important to protect our youngsters’ arms, and all, but these aren’t the 2004 Mariners. We may be as bad, but we’re not nearly as old.
What are the three true outcomes?
Even in a game like this Hargrove manages to make a bad decision. I am impressed.
Batting around plus Boone makes two outs. Sweet!
#117 – Walk, K, Homerun. Like RIchie Sexson.
#115 – Better than Gil “Two True Outcomes” Meche
I’m kind of surprised they didn’t have Thornton out there pitching in garbage time.
One of the better games of the season here, IMO. It’s nice to see the offense put the Marlins away in grand fashion.
has anyone mentioned that “brett farve” spelled brett FaVRe’s name wrong.
124: Shame on you, you just crushed poor Brett’s ego. Now he’ll have to join A-Rod in therapy.
OMG, Villone snuck into the game. Is an 8-run lead enough for him??
aw, shucks. and here in minnesota we are all such big Favre fans…
Good Gravy. Do we realize that Sele’s ERA is now BELOW 4? I am now preparing for the world to spin off its orbit.
#51 can make even a catch in foul territory look good. Man I love watching him play.
How is the ‘R’ pronounced before the ‘V’? It offends my sense of phonetics. 😉
NO! the game cant be over! that means im going to wake up soon!
Yes. Sele is nw the ERA leader of the M’s starting rotation at 3.99 Nice goin’, professor.
And gravy is good….
aaaaaaahhhh. pitching, hitting and defence. all in the same game.
And Darnell Coles even sounded quite articulate in the post-game blurb.
Should I mention that Bavasi was on KJR an hour ago saying he was looking at ADDING veterans, not trading them?
Too bad. Sele’s stock is probably pretty close to peaking…
But on the other hand… only 6 games under.
Where would you add a player? Short? With Pokey coming back? OF is full, 1st, 2nd, 3rd full. I guess catcher and pitcher, but they don’t exactly grow on trees.
I can’t wait to see Beltre’s interleague stats. He looked like a completely different hitter in this series.
[deleted– primarly: there’s “you’re wrong” and there’s acting like a jerk. This was the latter.]
“I want a pitcher who will spend some time … not come and throw in a heated rush ….”
Hmm…how long ’til Dobbers gets sent down and the Spaz makes his triumphent return as the M’s #2 pinch hitter?
I don’t want to come down on Ichiro too much — he had a big hit tonight, and obviously he’s a great player. It’s a bit like saying your Budweiser isn’t tasty enough. But for a player as smart as he is, he must know that the only thing standing between him and .400 is his patience at the plate. The book on Ichiro is not complicated: throw it anywhere near the strike zone and he’ll swing. At this point, he can’t change his approach wholesale. He’s been successful as a bad ball hitter. But if he could only discipline himself to lay off certain pitches.. certain areas of the zone. Sure, he can usually get his bat on the ball if the pitch is up and in, but 90% of the time it’s for an out. He just loves hitting too much, I guess.
Re. #138:
The M’s could use a backup outfielder to replace “Wee” Willie Bloomquist. (Besides, if Aaron Looper can get DFA’d, then Bloomquist can get demoted to Tacoma.)
Yet, the above notwithstanding, I would say the M’s would do well to recall Jamal Strong, Shin-Soo Choo, or “Doyle” prior to trading for a veteran fourth outfielder.
I can’t wait to see Beltre’s interleague stats. He looked like a completely different hitter in this series.
I’m concerned that Beltre may be more of the “smart hitter” type. Not that there is anything wrong with being one, except that if you aren’t familiar with the pitcher, you can lose big.
Where’s Quinton McCracken when we need him? Perhaps we should trade Greg Dobbs for him.
/sarcasm
PMC… I’m thinking Beltre is a “smart” hitter… but I think he is also an emotional hitter.
Which leads to believe, if I’m thinking positive, that when he starts to get success against familiar AL pitching it will help him maintain against the pitchers he is not familiar with.
It may sound like hooey… and it certainly doesn’t matter if he’s not a “good” hitter to begin with… but I see it in a lot of endeavors. The best are most often able to be steady, regardless, but sometimes the VERY best are emotional players.
You see this in poker. You see it in other sports.
I would say that Magic Johnson is a good example of an emotional player.
Felix Hernandez so far tonight: 5 5 0 0 3 8
Best final Jeapordy question in a long time too. It actually stumped me for about half of the final Jeapordy song. The answer was:
“These two Major League Baseball expansion teams share the same first three letters in their team names. And in real life, one might catch the other.”
Or something very close to that. Only one guy got it right.
Anyway, this was a good solid victory for the Mariners. Good hitting, good pitching, good fielding. Everything clicked. Maybe we were lucky we got into Florida during a time when the Marlins were in their own hitting funk, but we could use a little luck going our way for a change. This is now the fourth straight series the Mariners have won and they’re now 6 games under .500 at 26-32. I don’t want to alarm anybody, but this team is starting to show signs of life.
The question is, is that bad?
I mean, most of us want to go younger, ditching our veterans for our young talent to see what they can do. Most of us want the next offseason to fill the needed gaps mixing in a mesh of youth and veteran leadership to form a cohesive unit to try to contend next year. Most of us don’t want Sele, Boone, and Moyer to still be here in 2006.
But if they keep on being successful as they are, what does that say for our next season?
Riddle me this…
Anyway, I heard someone bitching about Hargrove yanking Sele. Y’know, sometimes you just gotta keep quiet until you read the post game summaries. I know there’s a lot of people here who are quick to judge Hargrove and jump all over his perceived “bad” moves, but c’mon. Give the guy a break.
Sometimes little things can turn a player around. Has Sele found his groove? Is he the best pitcher we have right now? Amazing.