Game 80, Mariners at Diamondbacks
JMB · June 29, 2006 at 6:36 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Gil Meche vs. Arizona’s other E. Gonzalez, Enrique. 6:40pm.
Oakland has won; Texas has lost.
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With the pitches he has thrown tonight, he better get some consideration.
249 – Doesn’t matter, current configuation seems to be working just fine.
Haha, brooms at the stadium?
Right now, Putz. When batters do get hits, they hit groundballs. Soriano’s one of the most extreme flyball pitchers in the game.
Fastball coming.
damn!
That rattlesnake noise they play at the DBacks ballpark sounds a lot like the air escaping slowly from their season.
a walk? CUT.
wow two of those pitches looked to be on the edge of the strikezone of gameday. How close were the two high pitches called balls?
SWEEP! 🙂
Forty one and thirty nine.
7-2 on the road? money.
Happy birthday to me!!!!!
41-39!!! W0000TTT!!!
God this team is fun to watch right now
MT, I don’t think anyone would’ve really brought up your use of that word if you didn’t have the disclaimer at the end.
253
It’s unbelievable. This time last year his fastball didn’t move.
Second place!
sweep! This team is on fire!
SWEEP!!! And in second place!
Dear lord man, what happened to Putz this year?
Happy Birthday to Jim!
Why do I love hearing Grace and Brenneman talk about what gut wrenching agony this loss was for the Snakes?
Could it be – – – – we’ve been there?
Wooo! I’m going to have good dreams tonight!
Wow there’s been an F-Bomb and slanderous words used here tonight. Not exactly what I’d expect from my fellow USSM readers…
Gonna be a fun plane ride home.
So are we only 2 games behind the A’s now?
41-39 … now THAT takes the sting outta turning 41 years old.
A nice little gift, eh? Happy Birthday, Jim.
The M’s will finish their first 41 games with a record over .500.
And to think people were going to hang Beltre.
P.S. Sportscenter just said Rafael Betancourt with the GW single.
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BBTN: “Rafael Betancourt with the game winning hit . . . “
As much as I hate to give Hargrove any credit  mainly because he doesn’t deserve much  he has done a nice job of stabilizing the lineup. Have we all noticed that the Mariners got hot once Willie Bloomquist was no longer employed as a quasi-regular?
279 – Neihaus has made the mistake before too. Heh.
Looks like Grover’s boys have saved his job.
281 – Seems to be we caught fire after moving Beltre to 2nd as well.
Doesn’t hurt that he’s OPSing the 900 territory in June either.
Remarkable how good we our once our studs (Beltre and Sexson) start hitting. And Johjima, my god, Johjima.
People can talk about playing the NL and it’s easier and blah blah.
We beat Jason Schmidt and Brandon Webb recently, those aren’t easy opponents.
We’d be so good in the NL considering our DH sucks.
Remember how Hargrove probably would have been fired had the M’s dumped the Kansas City series? Just three weeks ago … and yet it seems like a million light-years. THAT is the magic of baseball right there.
And Reed saves Guardado’s butt…
someone had a headline much like that last week, after Eddie’s two (almost three) home-run inning, along the lines of “Reed saves Guardado’s career?”
oh, and FWIW, during those two years Melvin managed the M’s he was ejected more times than Lou was in Tampa over the same period…
happy birthay, Jim, ya young pup.
Remember how Hargrove probably would have been fired had the M’s dumped the Kansas City series? Just three weeks ago … and yet it seems like a million light-years. THAT is the magic of baseball right there.
Or there’s this: On June 1, the night before the Royals series that was supposed to be the end of Hargrove, Bob Melvin was a genius for having the D’backs at 31-22 with a 1/2 game lead in the NL West.
Tonight, the D’backs are 37-42, 4 1/2 games out of first, and there are questions about whether Melvin will hang on to his job.
great win
I am just concerned how they will play against the AL again
Don’t worry.
Be Happy.
#287: id still like to see him fired….
THIS is what I was always hoping for having the Mariners FINALLY come to the desert… Chase Field was seriously about half Mariner fans (if not more) and there was this feeling the whole way that they would make a comeback. PS, Arizona fans are TERRIBLE. Going into the 9th inning, with a one run lead, they had a mass exodus, probably about 8,000 people left going into the 9th inning. Maybe they knew what was coming? Haha, definitely made it more fun to just party with the many Mariner fans there. Good times!!! I fly back to Seattle tomorrow as well to go to games, hopefully a birthday present for ME is in order a la Jim 🙂
Jake Woods is the ‘Bullpen’s Bloomquist!’
http://www.thenewstribune.com/sports/story/5886915p-5214823c.html
Thank you Larry LaRue of Tacoma News Tribune for giving me a chuckle.
AAAA PART OF SCHEDULE ALMOST OVER (See # 289) – I’m concerned too. But the other NL West-AL West match-ups lately haven’t been so one-sided.
Here’s another way to view the issue since the M’s have cuaght fire while playing MLB’s version of *who’s the biggest loser*:
If the Ms beat down the **AAA** part of their schedule like they have, shouldn’t you at least entertain the thought that they should be able to compete with the cream of the league?
All things considered, with the 12th most difficult schedule, they are 2 games over .500 and so solidly within sniffing distance of the A’s that even Oakland’s silent farts will have efficacy…
ah me, I wake up this beautiful morning to hear Sandmeyer & John Clayton in for Mitch on KJR, so my ‘2 games back’ buzz is severely tempered by getting to hear Clayton tell us the NL is terrible, terrible, that the M’s have just a handful of games left this year against teams with worse records than they do, that the M’s need to do something as they get to the trading deadline, and that we have to lay our trust in a man who deserves an extension for solidifying the franchise, but whose every trade (including Thornton) has made the team weaker … um, ok.
The problem is that Clayton says everything with the same tone of authority he uses when talking football, so he sounds plausible even as nonsense comes out of his mouth.
oh, and Sandmeyer thinks there is no way anyone should extend Bavasi.