Game 151, Mariners at A’s
Dave · September 19, 2007 at 12:31 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Hernandez vs Meyer, 12:35 pm.
Happy Felix Day.
Jones in left, Ibanez at DH, Felix on the hill – the blog smiles.
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And Vidro at 1B
Wooo! The King should be able to smite this lineup.
Well, Detroit lost….
*waving faint flag of hope*
Man, I called the Vidro to 1B move in DMZ’s tea leaves post yesterday. Vidro/Ibanez are next year’s primary 1B/DH combo. I realize that means something needs to be done with Sexson, but if there’s one thing we’ve seen, it’s that Bavasi is not afraid to cut bait on cooked veterans and eat the last year of the contract (Boone, Olerud, etc.).
oops! I thought it was at 1:00!
aaaaand here comes Mark Ellis….
Whew! 1 inning down, 8 to go. Go King Felix!
#4– hasn’t Vidro pretty much split between 1st & 2nd when allowed in the field this year?
3 – Detroit lost, but the Yankees shall not lose again, it seems.
Wow, so this is what it feels like when the other team has a pitcher who can’t get anybody out in the early innnigs…
Meanwhile, Rizzs talking up Jones, calling him a “thoroughbred” and comparing him to Cameron: “they’ll have to find a place for him next year.”
The way the AL East is going, it’s going to be the Tigers and the Red Sox fighting it out for the wildcard….
boy if you are just checking in and out, you sure get some nice surprises…
#9. I am at work and can’t listen to the radio. Is Rick Rizz comparing Jones to Cameron Maybin? That’s a pretty good comparison.
Just FYI – Magglio today was 0-4 dropping his average to .353. Ichiro needs to go 2-3 in his next three at bats to take over the batting lead.
Well, it would be, but I’m pretty sure he was referring to Mike, as in the former M’s (and current Padres) outfielder.
Did Rizzs just refer to the Dow (as in the stock index)?
That throw looked like it bounced of Vidro’s leg too me at least.
So what kind of Felix are we getting? Good, bad, wild, unlucky?
look at that Lopey.
well, look as a figure of speech.
Oh, Adam…c’mon.
anyone have the tv view? how bad is the sun?
Before the game started, Blowers commented that it might be an “interesting day” because of the sun.
i’ve only got the radio. he should have $500 sunglasses on though if he doesn’t already. they make some really sweet polarized ones for riding motorcycles that are great going in and out of shadows.
so, sun compounded by whirly wind? fun.
well, Adam just needs to get that run back.
#22– he was wearing his glasses. apparently they didn’t help.
The sun looked pretty bad on mlb.tv. and he has his shades on.
seems like they’re sitting on the fastball
i don’t care so much about the run as Mac sitting there going, ‘a veteran knows how to battle the sun…’ or some s***.
8: Wha’cha expect…they’re playing the juggernaut O’s, after all!
anyone else stoked to go to a double-header next week?
Neihaus just mentioned that “the afternoon games draw pretty well here in Oakland.”
Well, certainly better than they do in Miami these days!
did they just play the theme from ‘empire strikes back’ for shannon stewart? buhner OWNS that.
84 pitches through 4 against this lineup?
nice patience, lopez. and thank you uncle dave.
nice patience, lopez. and thank you uncle dave.
and as Niehaus points out, they might want to make Meyer work a little here
…and Meyer’s work is done.
normally i’d say this inning would be it for Felix, but the last few times he’s gotten sent back out there after getting over 100 it seems.
so, is it just that Felix can’t control the breaking pitches today?
Felix might’ve gotten hosed on that last pitch.
107 pitches and they’re only now getting people up in the bullpen? We know the A’s are a patient team; that’s not going to change in this inning. Not looking a move ahead is the curse of this team from top to bottom.
I mean the one where he walked Hannahan
Re: # 38 is anyone watching that can tell us that?
38: yeah, pretty much
i was just looking at Adam’s splits in AAA this year. wow, that’s consistent.
is Burke gonna be back next year?
shannon throws like a…i won’t say it. my wife would kill me. and she can throw pretty hard.
and Carlos Garcias ducks that bullet
45 – I asked Dave that before and he says yes.
2 outs, Stewart is mediocre, I was for the risk of sending Burke … .until I realized that Ichiro was next up.
48 – sweeeet. Clement and Johnson have gotta be a year away each.
Clement certainly hasn’t been doing anything to break down the door, and I guess Johnson still needs some seasoning. Even when they’re hitting, minor leauge catchers still have plenty of learning to do wrt managing a pitching staff. Burke has done everything they’ve asked of him, and until there’s somebody in Tacoma who is obviously ready I’d expect the M’s to keep him. I don’t know that he’ll end 2008 as the designated backup catcher, however.
Joe – I agree. Clement hit fairly well in pitcher’s enviroment this year, but apparently his defence needs some work still (i havn’t seen him play this year however). I almost get the feeling Johnson turns into a below-average hitter/good catcher while Clement is his alter-ego or something.
I’m following this on GameCast at the office. Why did they take Felix out before the 6th? Please tell me he’s not injured.
Oh, he was at 107? Nevermind.
Felix was over 110 pitches, I believe.
at 107 with little command, it appears.
110 pitches, 64 for strikes. That’s not bad but by the standards of Good Felix it certainly is.
Against this lineup? I would say it’s bad.
and where is Grady from, Rizzy?
Question: Are the Mets the new Mariners?
rizz says, ‘putting the game in motion’ and ‘trying to make something happen’. i say ‘run yourself out of an inning’.
I’d say the Mets were the new Red Sox, but the Red Sox are still the Red Sox, it seems.
woot! nice hustle, adam!
Memo to Scutaro: Jones is kind of fast.
Bases loaded. What a great opportunity for Burke to get his first major leauge HR.
A walk’s as good as a hit. Except that most hits would have scored at least 2. Uh, never mind.
Terrific at bat by Burke.
10 pitch RBI walk! WOOO
A walk is better than a hit because Garcia would have sent Vidro and he’d be out at the plate.
Sorry, 11 pitch
Followed up by a typical impatient 1-pitch
wild swing pop up by Yuni. Ah, Yuni, will ye
never change.
Yuni… not so good at taking pitches.
Does 51 have the batting lead yet?
4 walks and 9 hits in 5 innings for Felix? Owch…
Blowers expresses doubt on whether or not Jones will play next year.
What do we read into that?
#72 Wood Dog- Not yet by a fraction but he may before the night is over.
and RRS had to come out of the game because why?
Yeah, #51 and Ordonez are tied at .353 right now (I didn’t work it out to 4,5,6 digits). Ordonez was 0-for-4 in the earlier game.
Our pitchers always seem to find it difficult to throw the ball near the strike zone.
so far a very nice outing for huber
76: Because Mac is a masochist.
I see Sean Green is getting another Rick White moment.
WHY isn’t JJ Putz available? I didn’t hear what Dave N. said just a few minutes ago, but he repeated several times that JJ wasn’t available in the 4-0 game a few days ago, and he wasn’t available yesterday, and he isn’t today.
What’s up?
tightness in his right triceps
they say nothing serious
81 – J.J. has a tight right triceps. Third day today.
George!
and again.
Yay! Nine walks and counting.
Woo. Have a seat Mr. Bases-loaded strikeout guy.
Thank you!
81: Maybe Mac’s “saving” him for the impending Weekend-O’-Fun in Anaheim…as if it’s gonna freaking matter! >:(
Whom shall pitch the 9th, wonders I.
“J.J. threw before the game and his triceps was sore, it just wouldn’t loosen up, so we shut him down as a precaution,” McLaren said. “We don’t think it’s serious, but we couldn’t use him. When the game gets close there and you don’t have your big dog, it gets tougher.”
Putz said he felt some tightness in his triceps when he began warming up before Tuesday night’s game. “Better to be safe than sorry,” said Putz, who has 38 saves in 40 chances. “I couldn’t loosen it up. It was a precaution more than anything else.”
Dude…DaveN is killing me…
DaveN: “How about that? You give up 4 BBs, by definition you should give up at least one run…”
(off-mic) Rizzs: “Dude, Dave, they *did* give up a run.”
DaveN: “…Which is exactly what happened…”
Oh boy…for only about the second time this season, we get the privilege of being on Fox Saturday Baseball this week.
Of course, that will probably be the game where the Angies officially clinch the division at our expense!
Anyone else notice that Street actually isn’t on the rubber when he pitches?
Someone crank up the morphine drip for Grampy
Dave N. . .
94: He’s been doing that for a coupe years now.
“Jack Cust is getting the reputation as a terrible right-fielder” sez Dave Niehaus.
But Ibanez is stellar in LF…he’s gritty.
Cust’s fields his DH position pretty well…
Blowers says JJ’s ready for the 9th.
on the vidro strikeout, “that one painted the corner and Vidro knew it”
Silence as the K-zone thing shows that the pitch was about a foot outside.
AJ with a heads-up little piece of baserunning…
No way! Cust is awesome in RF.
Burke saw 36 pitches today which coincidently is the same amount Yuni sees in a 2 week span.
Do they hold the entire field together with duct tape?
I’m very impressed with Burke’s approach lately. Mariners are so far from where we were at the cather position pre-Johjima.
#74 I think Blowers looks at Jose Guillen, Ichiro and Ibanez and can’t figure out where to put Adam is all.
96: has anyone ever called him on it? It’s technically a balk.
Ichiro takes the batting title lead with that?
4-hit day for Yuni makes me happy.
The guys mentioned last night Yuni has 15 GW RBIs. Right place, right time? Or something else?
And NOW Ichiro has the batting lead.
Guess so…
.35396 to Ordonez .35325
15 would put Yuni 3rd amongst AL players. sorry. had to qualify that.
pretty good for a guy batting 9th, i guess
i believe a lot of RBI totals are the skill of the guys in front of you, but he does hit well for the #9 i’d say.
111, 114, 115…
It means nothing. Right place, right time is all.
Gotta be happy for Lopez. Especially given how long it took him to get the hit.
I hope 2 additional runs is enough to win this game.
Ichiro NOW is the batting leader! .354 to Magg’s .353
I think Sims (or is it Rizzs?) thinks Yuni’s day
is “really impressive”. He’s only said it about 37 times in this half-inning.
Ral used up his entire U’s quota with that slam yesterday.
so, raul plates 20% of his available rbi’s. that’s 8th in the ML with over 400 PAs. not too bad. …trying to find the other m’s.
123, any clue what league avg. is?
ichiro is 57th w/ 16.8%, beltre at 62nd @ 16.5%
#124 – let me see if I can set the filter for that.
Victory!
woohoo…i love sweeping the a’s.
Other than getting to see some of the AAA guys play, the only thing left to root for this season is Ichiro’s run for the batting title.
So Ichiro do you want to win it…Ordoñez?
Thank you. Thank you very much.
i don’t think there’s filter for it. oh well. if it’s any help something like 250 guys have 400+ PAs. so, to have raul 8th, and ichiro and beltre around 60, that’s not too bad. they’d almost HAVE to take advantage of the rbi’s considering how little they walk.
129 – How do you type the tilde?
You mean the “ñ?” I use Start / Programs / Accessories / System Tools / Character Map. Find the character you want, select, copy, paste.
131- I feel silly typing this on USSM, but the easiest way to type the tilde is alt+0241. Also, so I actually type something baseball related, take that Oakland, that’s what you get for booing Ichiro!
132: That’s dedication to proper posting.
Props to JJ. Oakland is a wreck, but Beane will figure something out by next spring.
I think the Yankees are toying with the O’s at this point. Second game in a row that the Yanks haven’t scored in the first.
I’ll predict that they’ll plate 10 by the end.
Speaking of the Yankees, I’d sure like to have some of our pitchers and our “veteran hitters” find out what kind of magic elixir Mussina (old), Clemens (old, bum elbow and blisters), Jeter (bum knees and ankle), Giambi (plantar fasciitis), ARod (sore shoulder), and Damon (hamstrings) imbibed about halfway through the season.
They went from awful and old to rejuvenated and frisky and the Yankees we all know and…well, we all love to hate.
Maybe it’s not magic elixir at all. Maybe those Yankee rookie pitchers and players donated some young blood to all the old guys…
But if you pay attention, character map tells you how to type it — down in the lower right corner of its status bar, when you have the character selected. For ñ it says Alt+0241 so — make sure the numlock is on — hold down the alt key and type 0241 on the numeric keypad. Voilà!
BTW, if you’re using one of the standard fonts in Character Map you can use the search box at the bottom to find characters. For example, searching for tilde produces all the characters with that accent; searching for super produces all the superscript symbols; searching for trade finds the trademark character, etc.
I believe those youth elixirs are named Cano, Cabrera, Hughes, Chamberlain, Kennedy …
How did the Yankees end up with so many top prospects? Oh yeah, everyone ahead of them in the draft doesn’t want to pay for talent (unless it is mediocre veteran “talent”).
138: I can never remember the codes for the ones I use, like the “tm” or “registered” or whatever. So I use the character map as a crutch.
And Oakland is the worst city in the world.
Thanks for the keyboard tricks, everyone.
Alt+164 works, too. Save yourself a keystroke!
on the postgame, a fellow waits on hold 30 minutes to say “if we want to get to the World Series … I know we got some talent in the minor leagues, I think we gotta go after Santana”
ñ – If you are using a Mac, it’s just as easy as [option-n] followed by “n”.
ññññ
Macs are awesome when they aren’t managing the ballclub.
81 wins. . .
How bittersweet at this point in the season when you are all but out of it.
I’ve got an old friend that lives in the bay area and she said they used to boo buhner something FIERCE all the time and she couldn’t figure out why.
I was thinking just this morning that if they hadn’t teased us by coming soooooooo close with both the WC & the division, we would have been thrilled with the guarantee that they’d end the year above .500, especially with the pitching imploding as it did.
146: I think part of the reason Bone got razzed as bad as he did down in Oaktown is that he seemed to tear them up on a pretty consistent basis.
huh? Cano was a non-draft free agent, Cabrera was a non-draft free agent, Hughes was a high-school pick expected to go mid-range in the 1st round without signability problems (which he did), Chamberlin was a sandwich pick who slipped due to injury concerns, Boras client Kennedy’s stock was said to have dropped a bit when drafted, but still went in the 1st round
A’s fans seem to have a tradition of booing the hell out of the opposition’s best players. I don’t think it’s malicious at all or that they even dislike those players (such as Ichiro); it’s just a funny way to root for your team.
144: I like games and don’t want to wait a year before they come out on PC for them to come out on Mac. If they ever do.
Let the religious wars begin (please note…I didn’t start this).
Oakland fans have no toofs.
watching the tv repeat of the game, Blowers sounds pretty prescient when he announced early on that it was going to be an adventure for the outfielders today; good Felix quote:
The wind gusts of up to 26 mph were a challenge, and Hernandez said his breaking pitches took on a life of their own. McLaren compared the wind to the old days at Candlestick Park across San Francisco Bay.
“Oh, man, I don’t like that,” Hernandez said. “The wind was killing me today. That was tough. They gave me a five-run lead and I was just trying to hang in there. If I never see this wind again it would be good for me.”
So Felix effectively was a knuckleball pitcher for the day. Just not an effective knuckleball pitcher.
It would be kind of cool if the wind was strong but steady. I bet with a bit of practice a pitcher could break off some wicked sliders.
When did the Ms trade for Andrew Jones and why was he playing leftfield?
‘cuz andrew’s defence in center is way below ichiro’s now. =)