Game 15, Rangers at Mariners
DMZ · April 18, 2006 at 6:19 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
7:05. Koronka v Hernandez. KSTW for TV, or you can walk down to the stadium and get a nice ticket still.
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Actually it’s on KSTW, and for that reason I’m pissed. I’m just far enough out to be part of the “black out” zip codes with MLB.TV
So when do we get some damned hi-def games?
I hate being stuck at work and having to listen to the games on MLB.com
What is KSTW? I have a hard time finding anything that’s not Fox Sports or Comedy Central. Or PBSKids.
KSTW = UPN11 locally. Channel 11.
Sigh. Gameday says Bloomquist in center again.
Oh you’re f’in kidding. How stubborn is Hargrove. How much evidence do you need that Bloomie, whom I kinda like for what he is, is probably the FIFTH best center fielder on the team.
Yep, Willie mans center field once again. Even if he denies it, Hargrove is platooning Reed. He will not even let Reed sniff a lefty starter. The other thing this does is prohibit him from pinch-hitting for both Bloomquist and Yubet late in the game, since Willie is the only other middle infielder. Let Reed start, or use Borchard as a platoon. I dislike Hargrove as a manager more and more.
Boy, everyone is really unhappy. For me life is good. The weather here in Taiwan is sunny with afternoon temperatures in the mid 80’s. The game starts in 15 minutes and will be over early enough that I will be able to make a 2:00 PM meeting. My coffee is freshly brewed and hot. And finally my Slingbox is connected to channel 11 and the pregame is on.
David
Johjima hitting 5th again too.
very interesting. If I don’t use Mozilla and use IE, I’m getting to see the M’s game instead of getting a black out notice. I’m a bit happier now.
Not to mention that a staright platoon could retard Reed’s development…
Bloomie gets the start? You’ve got to be kidding me, the M’s are 0-3 when Willie Ballgame gets the start.
But they’re 10% scrappier.
Man i wish we had the problems the rangers have. Wilkerson had 30hr last year and 100+ walks. Where do they put him?
7th. Top of the order’s all full, sorry!
12. minus the ‘S’
Sorry, I meant “13. minus the ‘S’”
Scrappiness alone cannot help one catch flyballs…
i was really hoping his last performance would keep him out of the lineup for a while. oh well
Meanwhile Petagine has yet to recieve a start. Is it too early to set the over/under on how many days until Hargrove is fired?
I’m calling late May/early June. However, who is the predecessor? What’s Edgar doing?
Man, I find it very depressing that we finally have an interesting bench and now the problem is the idiot managing refuses to use it wisely. Yes, I have finally downgraded Hargrove to idiot. Give me a bit to get over having to watch Willie instead of someone fun and I’ll go back to something less insulting, like numbskull.
Predecessor? Uh, Melvin, obviously.
Nice change, Felix.
yeah, i have to wonder on that. this offense seems like it’s just a touch away from winning games. 3 1-run losses in 4 games should be a sign that a couple of minor tweaks could have a pretty major impact.
moving k-jo up was one. the next would be to try out other options at DH (petagine is my first pick here also).
after that you start looking at 3b and rf, but i’d argue that the defensive benefit is hard to give up, and with a combined $25 million in those two spots, you want to make sure they are playing every day and working through whatever issues they have.
Well, that’s a good sign… one K already
14. Actually Wilkerson had a bit of a down year but a lot of them blame it on bad blood and playing in RFK. He hit leadoff the first few weeks of the season but struggled badly, so he’s been moved down. I still love the B-Wilks as a player and think he can hit 20-25 HRs in Texas, and if he gets to the top of the order again (it’s only a matter of time), he’ll be a huge asset. There’s talk of some shoulder issues right now, so maybe that’s holding him back, but he was really clicking at the end of spring training.
97! I heart Felix’s velocity.
Hargrove’s got a fever. And the only prescription is more scrappy.
It’ll be Rohn as “interim” manager once Hargrove is fired. Or crap, does it really matter? They could just make Ibanez a player-manager and get better results.
This whole Bloomquist thing in center field is aweful. Especially with a young pitcher on the mound, you’d think you would want to put your best defensive foot forward.
im dissapointed the stupid game isn’t coming in UPN here!
Dave Cameron for manager.
What? After my long campaign for manager today? Oh maaaaaaaan.
He really throws an amzing changeup.
Truthfully, if Bloomie has to play, I’d rather have him there with a groundballer on the mound than a Washburn or Moyer type. I still don’t understand why Borchard isn’t in there over Bloomie, if Reed has to sit.
You can’t hit that.
boy he’s just yankn’ the string on that change up..wow..
32. I imagine they could dig out one of the old Mike Cameron ‘44′ jerseys quite simply. A letter ‘Z’ could be hard to come by.
I don’t know.
I feel we could use more ejections/less Bloomquist starts…
Good Felix is here.
Hendu = vortex of broadcasting suck
DMZ for manager. Dave for GM. Jeff for color and Jason for play by play.
Willie Bloomquist for equipment manager.
Arrgh.
crap
Where did the miraculous groundball machine that doesn’t give up homeruns go?
That’s just a good swing. Nothing wrong with that pitch.
Good Felix, come back!
Watching Felix starts is becoming a nightmare.
spoke to early dave… dang watching in on the ESPN thing i was hoping the ball wasn’t going to leave… where was that pitch at?
Where was Phil Nevin’s talent hiding the last couple of years?
It was a nice pitch … low and away.
He’s going to be fine. His stuff was top shelf that inning. Nevin just hit a good pitch.
Thank God Felix is a GBer, considering our biggest chunks of OF real estate are being roamed by our two worst OFers. I hate to see Good Felix have a good outing spoiled by a few gift doubles.
*BTW, Val sucks worse, unless we’re playing Oakland then Hendu is the most awful. If I have to hear one more rant about how the A’s don’t steal bases…
#49, it’s amazing what a switch from LoCal to Texas can do for a man’s power numbers.
i don’t have a problem with the pitch – i do have problems with the announcing. I looked away and from the call would never have thought it had a chance to go out… not even until it was actually out.
Are the King’s early struggles this season something he might learn from down the road?
thanks… i was happy to see no walks there… that shows what getting behind a good hitter 3-0 can do though…
where was that pitch at?
Belt-high, outside part of the plate. Nevin got the good part of the bat on it.
All praise TiVo.
This is the kind of pitcher that the M’s should jump all over.
51. 21 pitches. Not good. At this rate he only lasts 5 innings.
Alright, Ichiro! walkd, good leadoff man.
55.
Absolutely not. That would be preposterous.
What do you want to bet this guy ends the season having a better year than Meche? And for $1.
Nice swing by Lopez there…
Lopez just pulled a Beltre.
guy in the 2 hole can’t strike out as much as lopez does
Which one, King Felix or Koronka?
Gotta be the latter. I don’t take you for a guy who just hands out cash money.
2 games, to times Gameday audio feed has tanked on me so that I can miss homers by the opponents.
I have no idea what’s going on out there.
Anyone having these diff’s?
That’s 2 times.
K in the #2 slot is no worse than any other spot, despite what you’ve been told.
Man, this Bloomie thing in CF is really annoying. Why can’t non-stat people at least admit that small sample sizes don’t mean a damn thing… wasn’t Reed’s career against lefties
Am I wallowing in Mariner Fan Self Pity, or is Raul the worst 3-hitter in all of baseball?
Ooh, a balk.
I think we’re looking at a new low water mark for attendance.
Um, I’m pretty sure Dave Henderson’s understanding of the balk rule is incomplete.
71 Probably. He looks nothing like a three hitter. He’s what he always was, a good five or six.
The yard is empty on Felix Day; how sad. :`(
75
Now that I look, Travis Lee hit 3rd for the D-Rays today. I don’t know how permanant that is…
Sexson walks…it’s a miracle!!!
I don’t think there are many more than 17,500 there.
It is a Tuesday
71. You are wallowing in self-pitty. He’s batting .300. He is one of the best hitters on the team so far. (small sample size, damning by faint praise notwithstanding.)
I don’t mind platooning Reed, but why not put Borchard or Lawton out there.
Why did Ichiro steal third? Why?
Why not? It was uncontested. Now he can score on a wild pitch, passed ball, error, whatever.
Aggressive baserunning! It’s how we’re going to win titles!
Bases loaded…but for C-Rex…ugh our 6 and 7 batters suck
Dammit, Everett is up.
come on carl!
86 Not to mention our 8 and 9 and 1
A walk for Kenji…
I guess this is what working the count is. As a Mariner fan I remember hearing something about this phenomenon at about the turn of the century. Sadly, those are just distant memories.
Time for C-Rex to earn his paycheck. No, I’m serious.
The Rangers should be regretting running off Hershiser.
Oh, uncontested.. I’m watching on Gameday here and I generally think of not stealing third with 2 outs.
Henderson: “It’s tough to hit that pole, because you’re either slicing or you’re pulling it.”
Yes, Dave, that would be the two options…
Woo, C-Rex, he’s a leader.
nooooooo
Good to know some things will never change, or improve, or even give a glimmer of hope. Thanks Everett
Great, he has walked the bases loaded, he is down 1-0 and Carl grounds out on the next pitch. Great approach at the plate.
arggh!!! where was that pitch did he chase it?
Simple, succinct, classic…”Hey, Carl, you suck!”
Wow Carl is monster with the bases loaded. How much you wanna bet this was the justification of his contract?
Watching him hit right-handed is absolutely brutal. I need to wash my eyes out with soap, an SOS pad, and boiling water.
C-Rex SMASH rally!
Ain’t anything in the Bible about extending a rally.
Least threatening bases-loaded situation in the history of the American League.
If Grover continues to make these decisions after the first of May, I will join you guys on the “Get rid of Hargrove bandwagon.”
Felix is keeping everything down today, which is a great sign. Seriously, he looks way better than in his first two starts. He looks fantastic.
May not be room on the wagon then.
Factoids on carl. So far this season with runners on he is 4/17.
Except he is 4/8 with just a runner on first and 0/9 (5BB) with RISP.
He’s throwing an aful lot of balls.
#106
Please, tell me this isn’t hyperbole.
Great…another HR and 4-0
Uhh… wow.
So, following the compliment, he forgets how to throw strikes.
Ugh. That was a meatball.
Felix is looking very much like a 5th pitcher.
Um, four runs, two innings, I’m not sure Felix is doing all that great.
I have polar opposite reactions to watching Everett and Beltre bat.
I am almost drowning in empathy for Beltre, but Carl coould never reach base again and I couldn’t get myself worked up enough to care. The sooner he fails, the sooner he is off my team.
But I feel personally invested in Beltre turning it around. I root for him like he was Seabiscuit.
Gosh darnit, it sucks being down 4 runs when Felix pitches.
I think #34 is vexing him; turning him into Freddy. He needs to switch back to #50 before he’s too far gone.
come on!!! both home runs after getting down 3-0… GET AHEAD!
116 – it was # 59 not 50..that’s Moyer
What the F is happening to Felix? I feel like I’m taking crazy pills!!!
That changeup has some nice sink to it.
err #59
9 is next to 0. I’ll use the number pad next time.
What the heck is wrong with Felix!?!
#115 the funny thing is carl is way more likely to live up to or exceed expectations.
if only because people expect nothing from him, and turning in .275/25HR would so incredibly surpass what anyone here thinks he can do. whereas with beltre we will never see the kind of player that everyone was excited about at the end of 2004 again.
I think Hendu is trying to subtly say that there’s a difference when you get ahead of the hitter, but I’m not sure.
Nothing. His stuff is fine. His command has been spotty. No reason to worry.
His change up is looking good.
Ehhhhh …
could shin splints still be a problem?
At least he’s hitting some of his spots…a few more starts and he’ll work himself out.
It’s not like he’s getting beat up. He’s thrown one bad pitch, the homer to Wilkerson. Nevin hit a good pitch in a fastball count.
I think JI is right. He has Freddy-itis.
He is only 20. A little hardship will be good for him in the long run.
ahh yes the Royal Curve
Strikes out the side. Felix is fine.
Oops… didn’t see how many outs there were. Nevermind.
Or Price-itis
The Royal Curve beheads the side.
His change is evil.
That’s more like it!
Well, I ended up being wrong, but right.
Is it just concentration? It looks like he’ll throw a bad pitch and get burned on it and then lock back down and look completely unhittable.
Mathews looked quite silly there, just now.
This Felix is nothing like the Felix of the last two starts. I’m fine with this Felix. With the velocity and movement he’s got going on, he’s not going to give up many hard hit balls.
So we can score five, right?
Unfortunately with all of these strikeouts, his pitch count is already at 50 through 2IP…….I think 5IP is about it tonight….
I think we’re seeing the attendence floor tonight.
Five runs definitely looks do-able if Koronka stays pitching the way he did in the first… but ya never really know with this lineup, three sub-mendoza hitters does not a good lineup make.
he needs to tighten things up pretty quick if he’s going to last more than 4 innings though.
Can we score five? Yup. The Rangers bullpen is pretty bad.
Beltre hitting line drives (according to gameday) is a good thing, right?
what do you guys think our record would be if Ichiro and Beltre were actually performing well?
That a boy, Willie.
Well, I hope Felix can get himself picked up in the 3rd… he’s slowly killing my fantasy score at this point. More innings! Less homers!
OK Adrian continues to ruin his average, and WFB strikes out. The rally may be slow in coming… if it shows at all… hmm… maybe not…
Beltre would have had a ringing single if he didn’t hit it directly at Jimenez’ spleen.
Did Hendu just say “Other teams have good players too”? Oh Jesus… Hit ‘em where they ain’t, guys!
Some hard-hit balls in that inning, but right at people.
Boy, that was the grittiest, most plucky strickout to a pitcher with a 4.91 ERA I’ve ever seen. Way to hustle back to that dugout, Willie!!!
The hit by Beltre was definitely a good sign. That was bad luck — just like that Ichiro line out we just saw. Well, we can be happy knowing we were really close to getting a run there, right?
#158.. riiiiiiiiiiiiiiight :-\
I’m just waiting for some more gems from Henderson. “Pitchers do better when they throw strikes” or “Hitting is fundamental”
WFB caught the ball. Yippie.
39 pitches for Koronka
Great at bat for Bloomquist that inning. He’s looking clever in the box. He and Hargrove can look at some tape together after the game, work it out.
i thought that was out on espn gameday
#160: Reminds me of John Madden, “If you don’t put up enough points, you’re going to have a hard time winning the game.”
“I think the team that scores the most runs tonight will most likely win the ball game.”
Oh wait, that’s probably a Fairlyism.
If it were up to me, he’d be bagging groceries by now.
WFB is neither our worst hitter nor our worst fielder. But he shouldn’t be starting in Center Field.
Keep it down, Felix.
should that ball of been caught?
If Beltre or Ichiro were a bit more scrappy, those would have found the holes.
#168, he shouldn’t be starting, period. That is, unless there were a car accident in which Jeremy Reed, Joe Borchard, Matt Lawton and the Mariner Moose were involved.
How comparable is Felix to a guy like Carlos Zambrano? Both guys strike me as a horse who will throw as long as you let them….both guys are groundballers (of course, Felix is the “King” of groundballers), and both throw a lot of pitches looking for the strikeout…anyone?
That is not the Royal Curve. That might have been the slider.
172. Or an infielder needed a rest.
Mentally, he’s got a ways to go.
65mph?
That’s just mean.
Wicked curve. 65 MPH
These are good pitches. Down in the zone, with movement.
That 65 is a radar gun error. No way that was 65.
70 pitches in three innings is not good. He may not make it to the fifth.
im dissapointed with the king so far…
Is it first-year jitters, or does he still need time to warm up to pitching again, or is it just immaturity? He did great last year…
not a good outing for Felix. Something’s not right with him.
11 offspeed pitches.
Finally.
Nice K, Felix. Six so far.
He looked absolutely exhausted after that inning.
At least they also left the bases loaded without scoring a run. Now we have all of our people batting above 220 coming up. Let’s give Koronka a hard time.
Felix should not pitch like a junkballer.
Hopefully it’s not to late for him to settle down, compose himself, and give 2-3 quility innings before Moonshot Mateo takes center stage.
I think I’m starting to see the strategy teams are employing. Sit on the fastball, hack at everything else, foul-foul-foul until he gets to 100.
There seems to be a disproportional number of foul balls per each at-bat. It’s like Hack-A-Shaq. Hack-A-King?
He’s doing what every 20 year old does. Waste his time for weeks until the test comes, and then pull three all-nighters in a row to get through.
Score one data point for false hustle/agressive baserunning…
Little League play by Lopez.
AGGRESSIVE BASERUNNING
What hath aggressive baserunning wrought?
This is painful.
Gotta love the aggression. How many outs have we thrown away this year? A lot more than any return we are getting on this policy, I’m guessing.
lopez once again showing we he shouldn’t be in the 2 hole… put a guy there that can handle the bat better and run the bases well AKA reed!
199. Who would that be?
198. I don’t think so. I think it has paid off more often than not. By a slight margin.
But a 51% payoff is not worth it.
200. if it was up to me the lineup would look like this…
ichiro
reed
sexson
ibanez
johjima
lawton
beltre
lopez
betancourt
You tell em, Richie. You’d rather K than settle for a measly walk. He wants all the bases or none at all.
I don’t think that’s the result of this aggressive baserunning crap … that happened because apparently Lopez can’t judge a flyball.
Oh, to under achieve.
This will be Felix’s last inning. Koronka has only 55 pitches now, after throwing 27 the first inning.
#173 I’m watching Zambrano pitch this evening, and it’s frustrating as usual. A common pattern of his is to throw two nasty pitches and get ahead 0-2. And then nibble, nibble, nibble, and have to make a 3-2 pitch. His stuff is good enough that the 3-2 pitch is still tough to hit, but it’s maddening thinking about the pitch counts. (And of course some of those 3-2 pitches turn into walks.) The contrast is especially striking after seeing that Maddux only threw 87 pitches in 8 innings the night before.
I hope that King Felix learns to be more efficient with his pitches than Big Z.
Yes! Felix can finish strong, and put up two more zeros.
203. I like that lineup. But you would have to stop platooning Reed. And you might substitute Petagine for Ibanez, assuming he is the DH.
Felix looks pissed.
201… I think we must be using different standards – by return on the policy i do not mean “made the extra base” – because an extra base is not, as a general rule, worth an out. And I can’t imagine how it has scored us enough runs to make up for all the unneccesary outs it’s given us.
I can’t believe Hendu is now going off on Felix for not having a mean streak. This clearly establishes that not only is Henderson not that bright, but does not actually watch baseball.
Felix is pitching angry right freaking now, Hendu.
Dave, I was just going to say that………….it’s serious now Rangers (albeit a couple innings too late)!
I agree Felix looks pissed — if not actually petulant.
Give ‘em one more inning.
Nice work, Felix. Best start of the year.
Assuming he’s done, here’s the line:
4.0 IP 6H 4R/4ER, 1BB, 8K
Looks much worse on paper than what we saw. He’s coming around.
212. I think we will have to let the thoughtful statheads that rule the site investigate this. I do take your point.
Yes, and it’s the best he’s pitched this year. Maybe those 2 2-run jacks snapped him out of whatever funk he was in.
210. that is assuming ibanez is dh’ing… to me its mind blowing why lawton isn’t a regular starter were much better defensively and assuming lawton can get a few hits every 10 tries better offensively… Reed shouldn’t be getting platooned with bloomie so i think he should be the 2 hole hitter… or even with a lefty on the mound you could flip flop lopez and reed in the lineup… I like petagine coming off the bench in clutch situations that is assuming hargrove would actually use him…
#220, LOL, yeah. “Hey wait a minute…I’m the freaking King! What the hell am I doing?
If he gets through the 5th unscathed, I’d say that’s a pretty good job salvaging this start…..something to build on at least. Well, that and the 8 K’s!
NOW he gets a hit.
Semi-good Nageotte is pitching tonight for Tacoma:
4 2 0 0 3 2
6 groundball outs, 3 Ks, 1 hit batter. 32 strikes, 60 pitches.
A walk!
PLATE DISCIPLINE from Beltre!
*knocks on woods* beltre has been taking a much better approach these past 2 games..
I’m not sure that’s plate discipline. It looks like fear of swinging, honestly.
Question: Has Willie Ballgame ever had a major league HR?
and how often do you see everett on base… let alone at the same time?
As of yesterday, our stolen base percentage was 82.4. I’d say our aggressive running as paid off. Obviously that only counts stolen bases and not the sum total of our base running, but I can’t think of a way to measure it fully.
It’s nice to see him take a walk like that, but .140, 0 hr, 0 rbi…. he’s got a serious monkey on his back.
Exactly what I was thinking, Dave. He may as well have closed his eyes.
Wow….C-Rex and Beltre on base at the SAME TIME…..unbelievable….
Willie.
NOOOO. That was fair!
Or maybe not.
How do you say “Willie Boom Boom” with a straight face on the air?
Willie ‘Boom Boom’? /puke
The Ignitor!
Yes!
True grit brought you that RBI.
Good gravy. Everett – Beltre – Bloomquist just put us on the board. Wacky.
Scrappy-Doo!
They will never take him out of the lineup now.
Willie Boom-Boom is a God. If could play every day he could really… sorry can’t type that with a straight face.
I don’t think you really can, but Dave hides it well. I about choked earlier when he refered to Sexon as “Sexy”.
WAHOO!
everett, beltre, and bloomie all get on consecutively whats this world coming to?
Ignitor had the only moment to really like in this game so far – speaks more about the M’s than anything else.
The worst part about Bloomquist getting a hit is now Hargrove can say, “see, I told ya so, he just needs more at-bats.”
KW… stolen bases are the least of my concern with the “aggression” policy. They are in a generally controlled decision-making environment. The aggression as a mindset is not.
Aggressive baserunning.
I know we hate the guy, but that was good hitting. Great adjustment on the swing.
Wow a double steal there…this has got to be the ballsiest team in terms of stealing
That was A-gress-ive.
Whaaaaaaa?!?!?
I’ll take it. One data point in favor of reckless baserunning/false hustle.
Nice
AGGRESSIVE BASERUNNING PART DEUX = SUCCESS!
Agreessive baserunning there keeps us out of a double play situation, and scores a run on a ground ball.
254
Hate is such a strong word, I don’t hate Willie. As they say, hate the sin not the sinner (or the dude that fills out the lineup card).
Let’s steal home now!
come on ich make this the time to break outta your slump!
Yikes. I’m not sure I have the constitution for this.
Ichiro and Beltre both tied for first in AL with 5 stolen bases…I didn’t think Beltre had even gotten on base 5 times.
The problem with platooning Willie and Reed is that if the Rangers now put in a right hander, you can’t substitute Reed for Willie because Willie is the only emergency infielder.
Okay now, Ichiro…show us you’ve woken out of your coma.
There’s aggressive baserunning for you. Take that.
Ichiro got stolen base #6 tonight. Dunno why they updated it for Beltre’s bag this game but not Ichiro’s.
Aw, nuts.
not used to seeing this from ichiro
Aggressive baserunning in that inning helped us score exactly zero runs.
no clutch hitting and it seems that felix can NOT get ahead early especially early in the game….come on M’s not more of the same old crap
Hey, did you know that Felix is helping set a record tonight?
Seven Venezuelan pitchers started in the major leagues on Tuesday, setting a record for the baseball-crazed Central American country where the achievement was heralded as a sign of its growing presence in the game.
Of course, it would be nice if the AP knew where Venezuela was. Doesn’t help our already poor relations with Hugo to be so arrogantly ignorant.
Nice.
Sit down Tex! Finish strong KKKKKKid…….
Man, the old Ichiro would never have been allowed to bat with two outs and runners on 2nd and 3rd.
272 – what do u mean? We got 0 runs there because Betancourt could not hit a sac fly or a grounder to 2nd.. and Ichiro could not get a 2 out hit.. not because of aggressive baserunning. Please put the blame where its due.
There’s the real King.
exactly 100 pitches….just how they planned it (or not)
Gotta think Nevin is Felix’ last batter.
there we go felix… send him out for the 6th hargrove…
Wow.. maybe this is a good sign for The King.
#282….that might be a good way to get Grover fired after today’s game……………..I’m all for it
282 – I’d say there’s about a 1/100 chance that that happens.
Lopez showed his “aggression” by attempting to leg out a ground rule triple. Grover will like that.
Nice one Lopez
Sriram – I didn’t blame aggressive baserunning at all. In response to the praise of the value of aggressive baserunning based specifically on that double steal – I was pointing out that it didn’t actually help us at all.
sexson lets earn the money your making now
We love talking about Jim Bowden here, because frankly a lot of humor can be found in that man’s choices. On the day after he’s arrested for a DUI charge, Ryan Church hits another homer after being recalled and has been a beast since Watson was sent back down for him. Oh that’s just hilarious.
Oh, dear. Richie, Richie, Richie.
unreal strike out machine… this has been some horrible hitting with RISP onight
The hits that weren’t.
Dave Henderson explaining why he’s a complete idiot.
Blah. Gameday says 13 LOB today. Outstanding.
Again no clutch hits. Being an M’s fan sure tests a person. Richie Beltre really coming through.
this brand of M’s baseball is every bit as unwatchable as last year’s…..I dont care how you spin it…..
Jake Woods, eh?
Dave Henderson explaining why he’s a complete idiot.
Well, we better hope for extra innings if he plans on finishing.
Uh-Oh. Not the best way to start a game, Jake.
This is why Woods is a journeyman. Come on !!
301. woods has been outstanding this season..
At times he has….Has that been 2 or 3 outings? Consistency would be nice though.
Crap — two straight walks!?!?! And I know we pay Sexson to rip the ball, but would it kill him to learn a 2 strike stance in a situation like that (I mean, come up with something that gives you a 25% better chance of making contact).
at least woods is promoting a healthy heart….
My god….Love to keep a game close and get a few runs in a key situation would be nice…..Walks kill Mr Woods.
i didnt think scoring a run from third with less than two outs was allowed….isnt there a rule against that?
#307: walks dont kill…..the government does…..
After a long time i began watching a game on TV from the 1st pitch – it will be a long time till I do this mistake again.
308 that is only a rule the M’s seems to have followed recently.
……
There’s really nothing to say.
Along the same lines — we all know “productive outs” suck. But productive outs include things like “bunting a guy to 2nd” and so on. Has there been any research done on “getting home guys from 3rd with 1 out?” To lump that situation with all the other ones always seemed silly to me….
while 14 games was WAY too soon to issue a report card, I think we now have a large enough sample size to declare this season toast….im sniffing 65 wins….
My hope and dream, well fantasy really, is to have just one month with a winning record before i die….
C’mon guys, don’t get discouraged. A bloop, a bleeder, a blast, another bloop, a bad call, a passed ball, a walk, another blast and we’re right back in this!
Striking out when the D is conceding a run does not seems silly though. Hit the ball on the ground anywhere (the right side would be ideal) and give the guy a chance to get home. Sexson is just an all or nothing hitter and I should have accepted that when we got him. In the good old days we always moved runners up and scored runs when we had a good opportunity it seemed. It seemed this season we need to get back to the little things of moving runners, scoring when with guys at 3rd with less then 3 outs and throwing 1st pitch strikes. Sounds easy but I needed to vent.
Cheer up, the Rainiers are taking it to the Rivercats, leading 6-0 and Nageotte is still in (bottom of the 6th).
Carl, baby.
It has been nice that the AL West is all hovering around .500. How long can this last? Lets hope through about 80-100 games so we can all have a little hope.
And the last shall be first.
Scrappiest sac fly ever.
“Willie Bloomquist doesn’t need to get a hit to score a run.”
Are they REALLY giving him credit for reaching base on an error yesterday?? Jesus.
Yukkiiiiiii
Yuni, baby.
Sad that both RBI belong to the Ignitor.
Yu-Bet? YOU BET!
The rally’s on!
I’ll take those runs if they were stolen from some old lady’s purse, thank you very much.
what do you think they could be talking about?
Losing on behalf of Woods now. Awesome.
Allasudden we’re back into this. C’mon guys! Get the King a No Decision!
Mariners score 3 runs — it’s tied!! Waaaaait, whaaaaaaa? Jake Woods walked 15 people in the top of the inning?!??!
Oh no, it’s like I cursed my team. Now Jeff Harris is in, the Rivercats are scoring runs, and Adam Jones just committed his 3rd error of the season (the other two were like doomsday scenarios). Dammit, I thought the whole superstition jinx your team thing only applied to the broadcasters.
thank god that disruptive excitement is over…now i can go to bed….
I love Yuni in the nine hole.
good
If Wood’s going to throw this many pitches they might as well start him.
335 – I love Yuni in the nine hole.
That is a sentence I never expected to hear.
Sherril is death to left handers.
Alfonseca is a specimen eh?
I’m not sure what it is, but I love watching Joh swinging the bat.
C-Rex 3-4 tonight…of course the 1 out was when the bases were loaded
C-REX!!! up above .200 now!!!
aaaaaaaaaand Beltre strikes out
Hendu said Adrian should “stay within himself” – and he does.
Isn’t that Carl’s 2nd bat into the Safeco stands in the first 14 games of the season?
Does he realize that every pitcher is going to go low and away on him for the rest of his career? How about getting 6 inches closer to the plate.
Adrian Beltre — flukiest year (his ‘04) in history?
will we see petagine pinch hit tonight anyone think?
we better score 3 this inning we won’t get any off of cordero
So why is Willie still batting?
Because he’s the kind of player that creates runs. Hendu just said so.
and the ballgame is over with francisco cordero closing it out in the 9th… Another loss where were 2 hits away from breaking it open and we can’t… this could be a looooooong season
hargrove WHY!!! why waste soriano tonight… can bavasi FIRE HARGROVE!
In order to see Petagine pinch hit I imagine we have to get to the 8th hitter in the lineup.
he might come up for lopez
Solo homer does nothing for us, I imagine it’s gotta be when there’s a few guys on.
This thing on?
If King Felix stays angry on Sunday, I will feel sorry for the Tigers having to endure another Leyland explosion.
Attendance watch: 17,927
Uh-oh…
A brief aside on aggressive baserunning…
In Tuesday’s Jays-Yankees game, Toronto started the game aggressive on the bases, hoping to sneak some cheap runs early against Randy Johnson. It wasn’t working. But the Unit was getting hit hard, and got pulled after issuing his second walk. Torre put Proctor in the game.
The Jays annoucers then said, “Proctor’s had some control problems in the past, so the Jays would be smart to put on the brakes out there. They’ve already run themselves into two outs.” Smart situational baserunning advice coming from the announcers. Nice.
on carl, his OPS is now just over .740.
i wonder what kind of performance he would have to pull for people to stop complaining about him.
A spring day most beautiful, and full of potential; thus fortified, went forth to the game, I did in hope of Fortunato, one Felix by name. I was unfavorably reminded of Kingdome Daze thought in error to be past: The stadium, far short of half filled by a tame crowd, and one evenso disappointed quickly; pitcher on the mound having trouble throwing strikes and keeping the ball in the park; the Home Nine pecking fecklessly at the plate, hoping to win but doing little to manufacture the means to such an end.
“And pray for those who were in ships, and
Ended their voyage on sand, in the sea’s lips
Or in the dark throat which will not reject them
Or wherever cannot reach them the sound of the sea bell’s
Perpetual angelus.”
Looking at the crowd, I’d like to think Lincoln & Armstrong regret on their offseason’s disinclination to shake up the roster more emphatically and so give the fans reason to show. If the Golden Goose of Safeco isn’t dead yet, it’s got it’s legs in the air (and I don’t mean the white meat’s flying, neither).
“While time is withdrawn, consider the future
And the past with an equal mind.”
Felix is coming round, though clearly not there yet. Way, way too many pitches hit in the air. However: 95, 96, 97 steady through the first 80 pitches, then 93, 94 after that but better ’cause the ball had more sink. The low orbiting satellite Nevin hit out was up over the plate; Wilkerson’s cannon shot wasn’t down either. Is Felix tipping his pitches?? I know the other guys have to be sitting on his fastball, but still. In the third, he looked to finally get some rhythm going. Remember, he had some wild starts down at Tacoma last year early on. When we saw him up with Seattle late last summer, he was all the way stretched out and in a groove. We haven’t watched him before now feeling his way to his best form in April. His stuff is still wicked; the wins will come.
“These are only hints and guesses,
Hints followed by guesses; and the rest
is prayer . . . .”
Can this team hit lefty starters? Not hardly. Wimpy Bloomquist in the lineup at least justifies the decision, ’cause he does make some contact there. Wonder what ‘explanation’ Grover’s feeding JR about his sitting when another opposing lefty starts; “It’s not a platoon ['cause I don't have a serious platoon partner], it’s [blanket filler].” Beltre looks as bad in person as he does on the Godbox; godawful, that is. He did go the other way on several pitches at least. Sexson was manfully trying to outdo him at flailing at unreachable pitches. The umpire seemed to give out sugarplum called strikes to both teams whenever he felt like it; the call on Johjima to smother the Ms last rally was terrible, a real blow. The team looked utterly lifeless, perhaps rightly dispirited by the Win the Monster Ate that was the horror feature the night before. Despite outhitting Texas, and K-ing more of them, the Mariners flummoxed to another loss. That’s what happens when you don’t have power hitters: no confidence, just want-to.
“Fare forward, travellers!”
[A seeming digression but not so, as it speaks to the pointlessness of subjectivity's time-dependence. Capsulation if you must: "It's early yet!"]
Thinking on the game I was later to go see, sitting in the spring sun listening to _Lamentations of Jeremiah_ by Thomas Tallis, blessed motet (and as ‘twould prove, only too apt motif for the night to follow), I minded upon Jeff’s digression some weeks since on April’s supposed disfavor, and pulled out T. S. Eliot’s _Four Quartets_, to read again ‘The Dry Salvages,’ from which I quoted above.
. . . The aspirin-ations therein of the failed Christian’s endless depression miss, for me, the sense of April’s cool and most un-cruel timeless resurrection of life’s indissoluble, uncleveable continuum of song. [I should mention that I'm pagan on my best days, and a realist on the rest.] To the contrary then, a few words, so:
Spring’s Difference Engine’s Calculation: One Is One
1 Fells 1 Tracery 06
Fortunate fares the one-seed, borne on air
Amidst the voiced parts eliding where time sings of earth
And vice versa; becoming’s beingless principle, not yet land-rapt, still
More light than space, spoilless, ever-ready yet ’til now unbefallen.
Seemingly graspable (in principle) this chaff bit prime,
It proves escapable time on time—fleck, flick, flitter, of a flock
Now, all the same yet different—differentiable its arc sublime
But not its lofted purpose, not its explanans, not its compassing design,
If any: There’s the germ within the question. Canny sun
Discovers one truth of it; makes, remarks that dear-bought proof,
A revelation of one web within, apparent in trim frame;
One of many, one-of-all, all chance-wraught, all indifferentiably the same.
Same time, same earth, same air surrounds us all. Small seeded
Differences within initial circumstance of form seemingly fissure to define
‘Thou-ness’ from ‘One-I-One;’ sensible distinctions those thus chased
However false: In truth the song, the singers, and their hour
all weaved intertwined,
All in unison a-borning, unbeginning because unending;
mourning on to morning all ineffably the same.
good god, is this what the m’s season has become?
Fewest attendance in safeco history in Felix day.
Depressing.
I notice that the March limited editions t-shirts still seem to be available…