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Game 14, Royals at Mariners
DMZ · April 14, 2008 at 6:58 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Ahh, the Royals. This’ll be easy, just like the Orioles. Wait, the Royals are 7-5? How? What?
Greinke v Washburn. The return of Jose Guillen to Safeco Field! A return to normal lineups for the Mariners! Who could ask for more?
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I’ve never been so relieved to see Brad Wilkerson in right field.
Let’s go M’s!!
Anyone know why every game is blacked out on mlb.tv?
Nevermind…
Wash pumping the strike zone. Great first inning!
Nice start!
2 k’s in the first inning for Wash — nice start. Of course it’s Royals bats he’s missing but it looked nice anyway.
5 - DeJesus and Teahen are pretty good hitters.
social anxiety wtf?
8 - I know they are. You probably meant 7.
7 - yeah, that was weird. I felt like we were hearing something we shouldn’t be, though it’s obviously public.
Gogo my fantasy team!!
And all I had to do was turn the game on to watch my pitcher in Fantasy Baseball…
well, I was just about to ask for a count-of-hands as to who thought that Grienke had a better shot of keeping up the scoreless innings than Wash did …
Gosh. I miss Guillen.
Billy Butler is really good. No shame in having him hit your pitch well.
well, according to the Social Anxiety Institute (?!), it is the largest anxiety disorder, and the third largest mental health care problem in the world today.
So, who’s return are wo looking forward to more, Guillen or Olivo?
did guillen get more money per yr than Wilkerson? Please tell me he did
I recall hearing waaaaaaay too much about what Billy could do with a bat during all those KC games this spring
Hmm, I guess I should really proofread. That obviously should say “we,” not “wo.”
MLB.TV is broken yet again tonight, so can’t watch the game. Thank the Maker for Gameday Audio, at least.
19:
I’m fairly sure Guillen got $12 mil per.
Oh Miguel, how little I’ve missed you.
13-yes I know. No laughing matter. I was just confused cause I always thought Greinke’s problems were reported as depression this is the first Ive heard of this. It could be I just never really payed attention.
Greinke is quite good as well. I’d rather watch him pitch than Washburn - team uni aside.
And meanwhile the Angels stomp on Texas. Is Napoli really going to be an .800 OPS catcher.
MLB.tv works for me.
There is shame in having Miguel Olivo go yard off you.
I don’t think you want to see what is happening. The wind must be blowing out tonight…ugh.
Ugh… Olivo “funk blast revisited”. Hope the Mariner bats are ready to surprise tonight.
Miguel Olivo hitting a home run is not a good sign.
boy, wish I could recall who it was earlier today that said that as that KC couldn’t hit, they would be coming down to earth before long.
What’s the Shame Index for Olivo for taking you yard?
I know it’s early. I know we’ve got ubercoach Mel to set the pitchers right. I know a #4 pitcher is just supposed to keep us in the game. But I still feel an ulcer coming on when Washburn takes the mound.
so, what does the 1-for-30 Pena do here?
20 — Depression was part of it. I’m not sure why they chose to just mention social anxiety, as if he couldn’t go to cocktails anymore. It was pretty serious for him and it’s the kind of thing that defeats a lot of people who aren’t nearly in the public eye as a ball player.
Well its not like an outfield defense would help with those flies.
1 more run and the M’s are going to have to concede the game.
13- I wasn’t trying to make light of SAD, I just thought it was a strange “player bio” item to discuss in a game. I’m not sure I’d want broadcasters discussing my personal issues that don’t involve bad judgement.
Make that 1-for-31 for Pena…
What happened with KJR today Dave? I learned way more about NASCAR today than I ever wanted to know.
I would love to spout obsceneties. I just flipped to Bosox/Indians during the commercial break and watched Joe Borowski (one of my fantasy closers) get taken yard by Manny. QQ.
what a matchup the professional vs. the psycho
I don’t mean to be terse, but do we really need fantasy team updates here?
The normal producer of the show was out today, and there was a communication breakdown with his replacement.
I always thought there should be a mandatory $5 kangaroo court for fantasy updates.
I don’t mean to be terse, but you deserve whatever you get for having Joe Borowski on your fantasy team.
2 GIDPs to star the game. Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
Sexson missed the memo. K in that situation.
The producer should know that if there was a sudden jump in listenership to hear a woman talk about NASCAR today, that he shouldn’t read too much into it.
I deserved that. I have Gagne too (ok from now on only conversation relevant to the M’s game).
How does Richie get thrown out by 3 steps there? It was legitmately deep in the hole at short
Sexson didn’t mean to be terse either.
Last time I checked Richie was not famous for his speed, but rather his keen eye….
33 - I took it to mean that he was able to overcome social anxiety and start playing in the public eye again - and off to a fantastic start! More like a congratulatory nod, b/c it’s a little more than just not being able to attend cocktail parties.
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Am I the only one who can’t see links to Gamecast from ESPN?
Did Dave just say that the DH came in 1984? And Blowers agree? I did zone off at the beginning of the sentence, but…
dave is right it is maddux.
48 - They aren’t working for any of the ESPN scoreboards.
you zoned out
that’s what I thought
Wait, was that Mike Morse on first for the Royals? … Oh, wait, he’s on the DL…
Anyone notice how Grienke hasn’t been striking anyone out this season? Fluke?
There ya go Kenji.
Thank goodness Ichiro is superfast.
I’d like to see Ichiro get himself in scoring position right here.
The Fungo commercial scares me.
Why sacrifice down 3-0? “When you play for one run, that’s all you usually get.”
Is Greinke an extreme groundball pitcher, or is tonight anomalous?
Grienke*… damn… sorry
I believe I read he has a barely above league average GB%. Correct me if I’m wrong.
Like many former Mariners before him I would be happy to root for Vidro were he to play for another team. However, with Vidro I actually root for him to play for another team!
Greinke has about 8 different pitches. Tonight, he’s just throwing the two-seam fastball, thus, he gets more grounders.
he must have gotten the scouting reports and thought it would be useful against an aggresive team like us
Congrats Jarrod!!!
You just allowed a hit to a .032 hitter!
In this day and age, how can they read the out of town scoreboard on the radio and be about an inning behind on every game?
73-he is not a lifetime .032 hitter just in a slump. It was bound to happen sooner or later.
This is such a horrible game.
75:
No s**t.
Greinke was a very different pitcher in ‘07 than he was in ‘05. Much more flyball-oriented last year than he was in the past. Don’t know (yet) what he is this year.
77-Don’t get testy. It was a little flair to right. It wasn’t even that bad a pitch. Why make it into a mistake by Wash.
79:
I was simply pointing out the fact and you assume I’m an idiot.
Trust me, I know baseball.
Re SAD: I’m a mental health professional in my real life, and SAD is no joke, it’s a real and sometimes quite disabling disorder.
Re the M’s: Is Bedard on the DL yet? I haven’t heard anything.
I was really hoping to open a bottle of wine tonight, sit back with dinner and watch the game. Instead, I’ve made dinner, can’t find a bottle opener, and spent the first four innings of the game adding “Successfully used a hand auger to extract golfball size clogs from drain despite having to maneuver auger around a T-joint” to my resume.
After which, I could really use that glass of wine.
I didn’t assume you were an idiot. If anything I assumed you were mad at Wash for a mistake. Guess that was my mistake.
How can the “Mariners vs Royals Series” be the leader of the game? That makes no sense.
I only drink wine from a box. Cut out the “bottle opener ” middle man.
If Derek opens a bottle of Merlot, I’m leaving.
One of my favorite stories involves box wine. Ask me about it at the next feed.
83:
No worries. We both want the best for the M’s. This next beer is in your honor…
6IP, 6H, 3ER, 0BB, 6SO, 2 HR
Not a bad line for Washburn. Too bad he’ll get the loss.
A classic Ichiro! at-bat.
89- F that jazz, Mariners are pulling this one out… OR my fantasy team gets a save from Soria.
Even with my Washburn skepticism, I’m happy enough with him tonight. I think my view of him is tainted by the times he stayed too long in the game and things went bad real fast.
What is wrong with this picture: Lopez leads the league in sacrifice bunts, but is hitting .320.
Awesome the third DP for KC
I haven’t gone back to look, but I’m starting to suspect Lopez takes the first pitch on every at-bat. But I missed this last AB, so maybe I’m off in my own private Idaho.
Ouch.
94- It was said the other day he has taken every first pitch this year. But the announcers said it so don’t hold me to it.
94/joser - I know he was doing that earlier. I haven’t seen much of the last two games, so I don’t know if you’re in Idaho or not.
I was at one of the games this weekend (Sunday I believe) where he swung at the first pitch. He definately seems to take first so far this year though.
It’s OK to throw a strike to Buck.
Let’s burn arguably our best reliever, down by 2, vs. the bottom of the order of arguably one of the worst teams in the AL. Genius.
Third game in four days for Green. I wonder if RRS gets to work in this game.
My personal thought would have been go with R.A. Dickey.
Let’s see, (1) afternoon game (2) against the Royals (3) on a cold and miserable day (4) when the M’s aren’t doing that well. Might be the low attendance of the year.
Boy the KC lineup falls off a cliff after Gordon.
Should be a quickie with that bottom 3 leading off the inning.
Er.
Yet another reason why results based analysis is retarded - two bloop singles find a hole and Sean Green gets yanked from the game. Unless RR-S pulls off a miracle, his line in the box score will look horrible, and besides the walk to John Buck, he did just fine.
Mac is going to have Green burned out before May
Wow. Didn’t expect Green to be pulled after 9 pitches. He didn’t exactly get smacked around.
Is it a good sign that Rowland-Smith has been brought into a high leverage situation? Does McLarern *gasp* have a little faith in the kid?
McLaren
Niiiiice. I give a faint cheer for my sad little team.
Time for McLaren to play RR-S five games in a row.
nice work RR-W!
Hurrah for the man of the crowded jersey!
This is game 14. This is only the fourth game in which 2R-S has appeared. He isn’t the greatest reliever on the planet, but for a bullpen that Mac and the M’s feel is undermanned and overworked, he certainly could have and should have appeared more often.
Leaves Butler on deck. We still have a game.
I’m getting really tired of the rollover grounder to second.
From the Times blog, sans Baker, a comment about Morrow from Rhodes:
And this from my esteemd colleague Larry Stone, who got some quotes from Arthur Rhodes before the game. Rhodes said Brandon Morrow had a minor setback down in the minors.
“He’s looking real good, throwing all his pitches,” Rhodes said “He had a little setback, his arm was hurting a little in his bicep, but he took a day off, maybe two days off, then back throwing. Came in and got two outs on five pitches. He’s looking good.”
Zach Greinke has summoned his inner Roy Halladay for this game.
argh, why must all the mariners relievers only face 3 batters?
Gameday had a 30mph difference on the first two pitches to Beltre.
Vidro sees all slop plus a 95mph fastball.
Shouldn’t we give out the Rally Fries before our guys start hitting?
That’s the second straight game that Niehaus has messed up the Beacon Plumbing phone number.
couldn’t one open a bottle of wine with a hand auger? (provided one washed the auger well, naturally)
just to be accurate, it was Holly Cain, who writes about NASCAR for the PI, and is a weekly guest on the show
Well, at least 2R-S won’t be overused when September rolls around. Honestly, why not let him continue to pitch? Is Mac going to use every reliever to finish off this game?
three pretty ugly defensive plays in a row…
This is just painful to watch.
See they gave the Fry magic to the Royals.
of course, none of those should be errors. It’s completely Corcoran’s fault that Yuni couldn’t get to a ball, Lopez bobbled a throw, and then Lopez booted a grounder. He’s not doing his job!
Grinding down the bullpen like that seems to be an organizational philosophy.
Not that they’ll be so free with batters…
I showed up to hear Dave. Not Holly Cain. Mark me down as a disappointed KJR listener.
It’s too cold so let’s try and get out as fast as we can.
cant get Grinke above 90 pitches in 8 innings??
Mark me down as a disappointed KJR listener.
I think that aptly describes everyone who listens to KJR.
Oof. Nice catch, dammit.
So that’s how it looks to not have a trash can in LF.
And Yuni robbed… This game could be worse, it could be Meche mowing down the M’s line-up.
After many, many years of extreme suckage, these Kansas City Royals appear to be legit.
Dave N on the radio: “It will FLY AWAY… no, it’s caught. Caught at the wall. That’s the end of the inning.”
Niehaus called a home run and then reversed his call. Was that a close play?
Just got back from the ballgame - have many thoughts, but boy do we look sorry … some positive signs … but Grienke flat out worked us.
137: that must be disappointing!
Cant get Grinke above 90 pitches in 8 innings?? Gross
I am done rooting for this underachieving team…
Teahen’s glove looked above the wall on TV when he caught it. It was close.
Tonight is one of the rare nights that I’m enjoying watching the other team as much or more than my own
Its almost unbelievable how many of McLaren’s decisions have backfired since he has taken over. Literally unbelievable.
7 strike outs for Randy Johnson tonight puts him 49 away from Clemons for 2nd on the all time list.
Heh, the pitchfx system can’t identify the knuckleball.
Well, apparently Dickey has given up on the ol’ knuckleball, and now relies on changeups, curveballs, and sliders. At least that’s what Gameday says.
142- You might want to check the calender before you sprain your ankle dismounting from the bandwagon, it might be hard to hobble back on to it.
Man, recent performance and small sample size can rear their ugly heads tomorrow… tonight, I’m loving R.A. Dickey
Hurrah for the man of the crowded jersey!
Apparently Saltalamacchia gets called “pits” because his name stretches from one to the other. RRS needs something like that. What’s a pit in australia? A billabong?
MLB Gameday box doesnt know what a Knuckleball is. Last at bat was slider, slider, curveball, changeup, slider
Just call Rowland-Smith “Hyphen” because he’s the first player in major league baseball history to have a hyphenated surname.
Well, apparently Dickey has given up on the ol’ knuckleball, and now relies on changeups, curveballs, and sliders. At least that’s what Gameday says.
That sound you hear is the computer scratching its circuits. They should just have a “WTF?” pitch.
Before the game, Bill Krueger was calling Jarrod “the new Washburn” because he was mixing in his offspeed stuff more.
Through three innings:
40 fastballs (67.8%)
7 sliders (11.8%)
8 curveballs (13.6%)
4 changeups (6.8%)
Yeah.
What’s it costing the Baseball Club of Seattle to rent the Mariners from Zach Greinke this season?
just talking on this forum makes me love USSMariner … fans here know what’s going on … that blog / forum on Seattle times is absolutely outrageous. long live USS Mariner and reality!
Yay Dickey! This wasn’t the worse game ever. Greinke seems to have figured it out through the young season.
155: Time for another open letter.
Well, the good news is we can still watch Nicole Zaloumis on mute.
Carson
Hilarious. I love the dark comedy of Seattle sports.
Open letter to John McLaren:
Dear Mr. McLaren:
You suck.
Your pal,
PMC
hah. took that Greinke ERA up to .075.
take that, bub.
I’ll sign that letter right now PMC
Add my name to that list. (Address it to Bavasi/Sexson as well)
Oh yeah, add Al Martin, Jeff Cirillo and Scott Spezio to the mix. lol.
Well Kreuger is sticking to the “New Washburn” thing.
Mike G -
I didnt see a new Washburn, I saw a lucky to face the Royals Washburn. Boy is he in trouble … although he fought threw it - i guess - to an extent.
149 - I know a bad team when I see one. Doesn’t matter what the team does when the GM makes bad trades/free agent signings and the manager makes constant bad decisions.
I’m sure we can come up with a better letter than that. Like your bullpen management sucks? Or something, although the bullpen was pretty good tonight.
Mike G
Sean Green really got lucky in that inning … came in and loaded the bases with 0 outs … by the way what the hell was Mac thinking not bunting with Yuni early in the game, down 3-0? Lou would have done that without even thinking.
Small things get the job done.
Gave up two more runs and the offense was crap as usual, wake up bud.
so, when do the “it’s Trey Hillman’s winning atmosphere” stories start?
169- Actually Green got really unlucky. Those 2 hits he gave up were a fluke, that could happen to Felix.
170- RRS gave up a run on a sac fly and Corco should have been long out of the game. I’m wide awake despite watching the whole game.
Who else is tired of Mclaren never just straight stealing Ichiro when Lopez is up? Hes never going to get 60 + sbs if we are all ways hit and running
I dont know, Mike it still irks me when Pena (hitting 1-30 i think coming in) gets that hit off green when hes trying to bunt and started 0-2 …
but fine ill give him the benefit of the doubt.
kinda entertaining to hear the guys on the postgame try to explain to a caller that it wasn’t that the Ms defense was ‘not trying’ — without actually saying things like ‘Raul was trying, he just can’t play LF’
@160: Mute’s really required though - have you ever heard her actually do sports? Worse than Lisa Gangel
173- It’s fine to be irked by the results I sure didn’t enjoy them, but you can’t draw any real conclusions about Green from them. He got unlucky. The bullpen pitched really well today and it was really the only bright spot of today’s game.
Mike - Although I will prob disagree with you tonight Green’s performance tonight (yes, he has been one of our only bright spots this year, and his team picked him up tonight ), but it was great to see RRS and Dickey pitch well you are absolutely correct.
hey, at least Gangel played college ball.
sigh. time to turn the postgame off.
“Jose Lopez has been taking pitches for Ichiro, and Ichiro won’t steal. Why can’t the third base coach give Ichiro the steal sign, so that he has to go”
Sigh…our offense takes a crap yet again today. On the other hand, Zach Greinke is a great story, so I’ll give credit where credit is due. The Royals suddenly look like a legitimate baseball team so far.