Game 149, Mariners at Royals
RHP Gil Meche vs. RHP Runelvys Hernandez, 11:10am.
Today’s my birthday, and I’d like the M’s to win. That’s not too much to ask, right? I wish King Felix was pitching instead, but at least it’s not Pineiro.
I’ve never actually attended an M’s game on my birthday. The closest I ever came was on September 18th, 2001, when the M’s nearly clinched the division with a 4-0 win over Anaheim. They would have clinched that night had Oakland lost to Texas. After the game, they put the A’s-Rangers game on the big screen for all of us to watch. Leading 6-5, Jason Isringhausen retired Mike Lamb, Carlos Pena, and Michael Young in the bottom of the 9th.
I went to the game the next night as well, and the A’s-Rangers game started earlier in the day. When that game had reached the 7th inning with the Rangers leading, they stopped updating the score on the out-of-town scoreboard. Apparently they wanted to choreograph that clinching moment with a video screen announcement rather than letting smart fans figure it out, spontaneously, on their own. Oh well.
Go M’s.
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Well let me be the first to wish you a Happy Birthday.
And hopefully the M’s will oblige and offer you a giftwrapped win to celebrate with.
Wow, no WFB starting today…
And Doyle in the lineup…
Huzzah!
Happy birthday Jason. Don’t worry, the M’s have a great line-up against a horrible pitcher. This win’s in the bag.
Happy birthday, Jason!
Happy Birthday Jason!
Have a great birthday, Jason. Don’t worry, the M’s have a great line-up against a horrible pitcher — we don’t have a chance!
That’s plagiarism Steve!
Shealy with two more RBIs, after 9 the first two nights — making up for his zero last night. As I said a couple of game threads ago, this series may be the high point of his career….
C’mon M’s pitchers — how’s about you get out of the first inning without letting them score, for once?
so, Jason, did you make yourself a cake?
Beane weighs in with his ‘maybe he’s safe’ column today
dammit.
here is Darrin Beane; Stone’s piece finally shows up in the Times this morning
I was just about to post Stone’s piece. Hargrove in ‘07 baby!
Ron Fairly: “I’m sure Hargrove would have preferred to see Snelling swing away there.”
Jesus God.
Postive note: today the M’s need to win only 11 games of the remaining 14 to have a .500 season, whereas they need to lose 12 of the last 14 to have another 90-loss season. Isn’t that a cheery factoid?
as Darrin Beane reminds us, this is their best season since ‘03….
the pitching staff is sure trying to undermine Grover.
What in God’s name do you suppose that super economy-sized bald guy was drinking there in Kansas City? He was hammerin’ that straw, though.
The Mariners look like they’re almost in physical pain going through the motions out there right now.
I actually have been to a game on my birthday — September 22, 2002. M’s won 3-2 on a 4-4, 2 RBI performance by WFB.
We had tickets for Opening Day 2004, but instead my daughter was born that morning.
Happy b-day, JMB. Hope you don’t have to bake your own cake. Birthdays should not be busman’s holidays.
Nice at bat by Sexson there. I felt like we weren’t going to score again this inning. Nice to be wrong.
my goodness this is one crawlingly slow game. I do like the way they keep shooting themselves in the foot if they get too close to pulling out a win, though.
I saw all the empty seats in the stands, and thought they were playing at Safeco for a minute.
No question about it: the server’s safe today.
I predict the server will be safe under Hargrove gets shit-canned.
Doyle!!!
DOYLE!!!!!!
That homer would crash the server on a normal day.
glad to watch just to see that AB
JOHJIMA!!!!!!!!!!!
Kenji!!!
Sexson’s now hitting .356 in September. He just might make a run at the (September) batting title.
I wonder how the team would be if Sexson was hitting .356 for the whole year…
Is 31 a new low for game thread comments?
nice to see the shots of Joh & Ichiro! giggling in the dugout…
post-game we got some nice examples of the way folks can see things– the fellow calling in from Oklahoma to say that Hargrove deserved our support for the way he is putting the team ahead of his own job by playing all those young players (young folks like that Everett kid, I guess) and Jan from Seattle who is not a Bavasi fan because ‘he tried to trade away Raul last year’
Happy birthday JMB!
Only 30+ comments?? What the…?
msb, thank you for reminding me why I may miss baseball in the winter, but I will not miss the post-game callers
Only 30+ comments?? What the…?
The complete waste of precious time formerly known as the NFL.
“Winning Pitcher” Gil Meche: 6 IP, 9 H, 5 R, 4 ER, 2 BB, 3 K, 0 HR
“Non-Decision Pitcher” Runelvys Hernandez: 4.2 IP, 6 H, 4 R, 4 ER, 1 BB, 4 K, 0 ER
I was going to make a point with this, but decided I don’t care anymore. They both suck, anyway.
Last 0 ER = 0 HR.
Wow. This may be the shortest game thread I’ve ever seen.
Doyle is Lucky… Morse is the MAN
Damn, I was football blogging and missed an M’s game.
If someone made a fool of himself and no one saw it, did he still get the attention he craved?
Doyle is Lucky… Morse is the MAN
Nice job, guys.
I wonder how the team would be if Sexson was hitting .356 for the whole year
Hard to say since if Sexson could even conceivably hit .356 for a year he’d be playing for the Yankees.
I made up a quick little chart on Sexson. It’s only OPS so it’s not as if you get the whole story, but I do think it can prove a point.
For full “disclosure” I left in 2004 even though he only had 90 AB. If you regress to his mean over the time he missed, you’ll see a guy who already hit his peak years ago – 2001. Since then he’s generally been on a downward plane. Last year was certainly better than I expected when they signed him, but it’s not out of the realm of possibilities for a guy headed on the same trajectory.
By the same token, this year’s results may be “slightly” worse than what his abilities should on average allow for, but it’s not off by much. What is really alarming (but not surprising) is that his power and walks are what have been falling this year – down around 12% each in SLG and BB from last year. If you look at ISO instead of SLG it’s down 20%. BA is virtually the same, down a touch – 3.5%.
IMO, the stats going down simultaneously speak volumes about where he is headed.
Fangraph seems to show the same thing, just glancing through it. Not encouraging.
Fangraph seems to show the same thing, just glancing through it. Not encouraging.
Where do I find this Fangraph site? Fangraph.com is giving me a parked domain on GoDaddy.
Thanks in advance!
Whoops, Re: 44, for BB going down I meant to say OBP. As far as BB going down… it’s a hell of a lot more than 12%!
Fangraph at:
http://www.fangraphs.com/index.aspx
The JMB birthday discussion reminded to post something here. Today (yesterday, actually) was also my dad’s 64th birthday (cue Beatles music). Or rather, it would have been, but he died in a hiking accident 10 years ago this summer. He was a rabid Ms fan and took me to many games at the Kingdome. Never lived to see Safeco, but he would have been a kid in a candy store there. So, here’s to you Dad. Glad the Ms won on on yer B-Day for ya.
#44: Or an OPS decline from Milwaukee/Arizonaland can be explained by moving to Safeco.
#44: Or an OPS decline from Milwaukee/Arizonaland can be explained by moving to Safeco.
Except that the Arizona one hardly is enough of a sample to qualify as anything, and he’d been hitting the negative direction the last two years in Milwaukee, as well.
49. Sorry about your dad. Happy ex-birthday to him.
#44 through #47…
All those stats would improve if Richie would roll his pantsleg up to his knees so the umpires could tell that his knees are TWO-PLUS FEET OFF THE GROUND, not that twelve inches they seem to think is the bottom end of his strike zone…