Game 69, Pirates at Mariners
Dave · June 21, 2007 at 6:23 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Hernandez vs Van BenSchoten, 7:05 pm.
(Doyle Update: Mike Curto interviews the beloved Aussie outfielder on the Tacoma Rainiers pregame show at around 6:55 pm – listen here)
Same line-up as last night. Here’s to hoping for a Happy Felix Day for the first time in a while.
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Putz Woooooooo! I don’t think teams are really scouting him this year though. All fastballs unless it’s do or die. But it always seems to work.
HAPPY HAPPY Felix Day
I wonder how many consecutive saves that makes it for Putty, including last year.
First back-to-back shutouts since June 2004? Man, I was at those Expos games.
Putz Woooooooo! I don’t think teams are really scouting him this year though. All fastballs unless it’s do or die. But it always seems to work.
Does anybody scout Mariano Rivera? He basically throws ths same pitch over and over too.
Well that’s true. But Rivera has one of the most unique pitches in baseball history.
Hmm, guess that’s only 22 consecutive saves including last year.
These are two nice games to take into the feelgood Junior hoopla. I’m really looking forward to seeing Junior play baseball tomorrow, in person.
KKKKKKKKKING FELIX!
Well there they go getting my hopes and dreams all up again. I’m starting to get the feeling that there is either a very long string of losses or an extremely awful trade on the horizon.
Ah, the Griffey strut. Good times. Hopefully we won’t see many in the next three games 😛
Just what you wanted to hear Dave
On the post-game show they are all (including Felix) talking about how important it is to establish the fast ball early.
Well, wins aren’t too bad I suppose . . . if no one gets injured.
Now if we could only face the Pirates for the rest of the season!
ah, now those are my Pirates.
sigh.
Jeff Manto in the house, though 🙂
I didn’t see tonight’s game;with the description that the Pirates were not working the count;it reminds me of Manny Sanguillen,the long retired former Pirate catcher.If the pitch could theoreticaly be hit,he was highly likely to swing.
feh. it didn’t have to be anywhere near hittable for Manny to swing 🙂
I ended up (by accident) hearing part of the KJR postgame last night as Jeff Nelson was proudly proclaiming having brow-beaten the scorer into changing an error into a hit.
much to the amusement of my Phillie-bred friends, the Adirondacks were played by the Cascades in the film.
#266 It is a sad state of affairs that KJR is the only local sports talk station in a great area like Seattle metro.
267. What city needs more than one?
much to the amusement of my Phillie-bred friends, the Adirondacks were played by the Cascades in the film.
Which is why they looked like actual mountains, rather than what passes by that name out east.
#267: Yet, sad as it might sound, KJR’s post-game “show” is still light years ahead of the sludge that oozes out of KOMO following the games.
With the exception of Shannon Dreyer, of course.
I love JJ Putz…
But…
FIP – 2.98
xFIP – 2.88
LOB% – 101.1%(!)
Putz’s average LOB% is about 78% so are we looking at a ticking time bomb? I don’t suppose he’ll get wonked too badly when he regresses (if he regresses), but a 1.11 ERA he simply cannot maintain forever.
I’m just hoping he doesn’t do it when / if we get back into serious contention.
Just listened to Curto’s Doyle interview. He opted for treatment rather than surgery and is going to just try playing through it. (he had a cortizone injection) He said he expects to be back in the lineup in a few days. I especially found it interesting that he found out about the Nats trade from JJ Putz.
If you listen to the recording, the interview begins at about the 14 minute mark.
Yeah, you have to expect Putz to regress to his usual 78% eventually, but it could be next season. We’re talking about a very small sample here, and sometimes guys have one otherwordly season (just ask Gagne).
More likely, of course, is that he’ll get lit up in one game. And that’s all it’s going to take to bring him back to his average. He’s pitched 32 innnings and given up 4 ER. If he gave up a grand slam in his next one-inning outing, that would bring his ERA all the way up to 2.25, which is almost what it was for all of 2006 (2.30). And all it could take is one bad pitch — in a perfect storm inning, with a bad throw by Yuni to blow a dp and an outfield fly Raul can’t reach, he could have the bases loaded having done nothing wrong; and then he happens to serve up a meatball (or has the misfortune of facing someone like Vlad with nowhere to put him)…
So yeah, he could regress to his mean, but that could very well just end up as one blown save for him and one loss in the team’s record. Which hurts, but isn’t exactly a “time bomb.”