Game 79, Mariners at Padres
7:05. Jarrod “The Bus” Washburn v Randy Wolf.
Randy Wolf signed a one year deal with the Padres for $4.75m, with some nice incentive clauses for games started and innings pitched. He was with the team before for $8m and the Padres declined his option and re-signed him for $4m less than he was due.
The M’s are paying Washburn $9.85m to suck this year and will pay him $10.35m to suck next year unless embarrassment spurs him to retires or something.
Actually — that’s too harsh. Washburn, for his terrible record and terrible outings, has overall been a more or less average pitcher with some bad luck. Sorry.
Washburn: 5.87 K/9, 3.05 BB/9, 1.06 HR/9, and a .344 BABIP
Wolf: 8.27 K/9, 3.04 BB/9, 1.05 HR/9 and a .305 BABIP (which is still a little unlucky)
Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeyup. Good thing we locked Washburn up to that long-term deal, because otherwise there’d be no way to replace him.
LINEUPS!
RF-L Ichiro!
2B-R Lopez
LF-L Ibanez
3B-R Beltre
1B-R Sexson
C-R Johjima
SS-R Betancourt
CF-R Willie “Evil in Spikes” Bloomquist
P-L Washburn
That’s at least… more defensible than most McLaren lineups towards the end.
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out of the whole wonderful gang, who is the worst of all?
Whats the over/under line tonight for:
1.Washburn going over 3 innings.
2.Washburn throwing 30+ pitches in any inning.
3.Somebody on the radio describing/discussing Willy’s ’scrappy’ play and/or ‘hustle’.
speaking of pitching match-ups, KC is hitting around the Card’s pitcher Joel Pineiro, while KC’s Gil Meche is baffling the Cardinal hitters.
Drayer’s medical report:
JJ throws 60 feet on flat ground sat., stilll not likely to be ready until after the AS break.
Felix has the boot off, and is not limping
AB is doing better, and Bedard’s back (and I assume Morrow’s as well) survived the flight home
…and in other news, the latest issue of Sports Illustrated indicates that his fellow MLBers (but not including his own teammates) find Raul Ibanez to be the third most underrated player in the game today.
Hooray?
I’m rooting for the pitching staff to be nicknamed ‘Felix and the Bullpen Gang’ by the AS break. Maybe Bedard will fight his way back to be some kind of sidekick to Felix…
as players could not vote for a teammate…
Fixed for you, to make “over/under” make sense.
I’m a little nervous about tonight’s match up. Willie has a lifetime 362 slugging PCT against lefties, and an outfield of Gerut, Giles, and Headley might allow him to stretch one out.
The Willie Watch:
Unofficial records:
100 – Consecutive games without an XBH – Greg Gross
223 – Consecutive at bats without an XBH – Jose Valdivielso
266 – Consecutive PAs without an XBH – Larry Lintz
124 – Full season with no XBH in ABs – Dwain Anderson
144 – Full season with no XBH in PAs – Dwain Anderson
This is where Willie Stands:
76 – Consecutive games without an XBH
146 – Consecutive at bats without an XBH
166 – Consecutive PAs without an XBH
77 – 2008 season with no XBH in ABs
90 — 2008 season with no XBH in PAs
1. 5 1/3 IP
2. 29
3. 2
over-under
Over/under
1. 4.2
2. most pitches in any inning: 31
3. 5, but that includes references to his super-utility guy status and natural speed as well.
I think I’m going to write a massive trade value post during tonight’s game.
Over/under:
1. 6.1
2. Most pitches in any inning = 21 (this is the Padres)
3. 2 (I predict no hits for Willie tonight, but if he does get one, he’ll try to stretch it to a double and be thrown out at 2nd)
M’s have a good chance tonight, because they don’t get XBH’s, but no one else does at Petco, either.
I think I’m going to write a massive trade value post during tonight’s game.
Great idea, but won’t it get depressing writing “absolutely none” for about 19 of the players?
At least Vidro isn’t in the lineup.
I wish Clement was, though.
Does anyone know where Gerut was in 2006 and 2007?
nice! “welcome to gameday 3d” anyone else have this?
You know, I might be alone here, but I think the M’s should go back to the trident logo… and some variation of the old uni’s. I’m getting sick of the current ones.
Is it just me?
I’m baffled Sexson is still on this team. Nobody wants him. Let him go. Let’s move on.
Omigod. Somehow I’ve missed the Mariners ‘new’ uniforms, whenever and wherever they first showed up. With all that powder blue plus the obligatory gold chains, they look like refugees from a Florida retirement community.
richie time! sigh…
Let me guess:
1 Felix
2 Ichiro
3 Bedard
…
22 WFB
23 Sexson
24 Vidro
25 Washburn or Batista
I’m trying to imagine how it’s going to be “massive”.
I rather like the Padres old unis as well.
I’m trying to imagine how it’s going to be “massive”.
Really big font?
It’s some kind of turn the clock back to 1978 night in San Diego.
Dave N. said he thought those uniforms looked good. In 1978.
#8, delayed thank-you. Radio game tonight, but #20 just described the team better than Neihaus ever has. over/under 4.1, 28(padres), no hits for Willy, but 1 walk and a really scrappy 9 pitch ab.
22: How can you not have Silva on the list? His deal is more than Wash or Batista and it ends in like the second Jenna Bush administration.
1978, eh? That would explain the leisure suit appearance.
Is there like 12 people in the stands in San Diego?
If you schedule a special event and only a few people show up, why bother?
Both these sets of uniforms should never have seen the light of day again. What’s next? The ChiSox unis with shorts?
That was an Ibanez single.
How can professional baseball people look at that and not see what all of us can see? Is it just that we were tipped off by looking at actual statistics?
My, our (lack of) range is being tested tonight.
Uh, boys? Just because you are wearing uniforms from 1978 doesn’t mean you have to play like the 1978 Mariners.
70’s night, Padres: No big deal.
70’s night, M’s: Huge frickin’ promo. Like, biggest of the year. No joke.
I think this tells us something about the fans: Padre fans, having seen their team in the postseason recently, have no reason to want to relive the past…
M’s fans, on the other hand…
How much of Washburn’s “bad luck” is terrible defense, do you think? Wash may be a jerk, but he may have some legitimate reasons, what with Raul out there shagging flies like he’s trying to stamp out a campfire.
Did the Mariners bat twice that inning??
how long before sexson is sent packing, if it’s when his average goes below 200, then it will only be 17 more at bats
The Mariners would ban that camera angle if somebody tried to set it up at Safeco.
DMZ pointed out his BABIP was .344. Some of that is lack of fielding range, I’m sure.
Willie Bloomquist: (s)craptastic.
Gritty walk.
40: I suspect more of it is because the difference between fastball and “change” has all but disappeared.
Washburn bunts like he pitches.
Ichiro looks like he’s playing for the Orix Blue Wave (and he probably wishes he was).
Seeing-eye single for sure.
If Washburn had gotten the bunt down, the M’s would have a run.
Probably not, since they’re the Orix Buffaloes now.
Sure seems like the Padres have got some nice camera locations set up for the broadcasts. I really like those aerial views of the play developing from the high outfield perspective.
So, what’s the record for most bases-loaded situations in a game without scoring a run?
Bases loaded, so what?
If the Padres had Raul, three runs would have scored on that one.
I actually kinda like the Padres design… what I think is lame (and doesn’t surprise me considering it’s the M’s) is that the Padres have the proper batting helmets. I would think for all the money this team makes they could at the very least come up with some matching batting helmets.
erm… the Padres have proper helmets and we don’t. Sorry bout that.
Nice arm, that Beltre.
Also, they’re a half game out of last place right now, and finished in last place last year.
They tried but the powder blue hats made them look like a bunch of PanAm flight attendants. This wasn’t so bad, considering they’ve been playing like flight attendants but the killer was it made them look like PanAm flight attendants from the 1960’s and that just would have spoiled the whole promotion.
Ron. Freaking. Fairly. It really is turn back the clock night.
Record for most LOB in one game: 20.
Before this series ends, teams’ combined losses will be over 100. In June.
Ron’s key to the game? Keep the ball down.
57: Plus, they’d have looked like extras from “Catch Me If You Can.”
Trivia: The Orix Buffaloes’ pitching coach is Marcel Lachemann, Rene’s brother.
Yeah, except the helmets for the road were the same as the home games. The same blue that is on their helmets.
For those using Gameday, what do you think of the new 3-D mode? I think it’s kinda cool, even though it slows down the action at times. I’m okay with the tradeoff, though.
lmao did anyone just hear what the Padres’ announcer said about Seattle utilizing their DH spot well?
such a burning question– which will break through first? the terrible pitching on both sides or the terrible hitting on both sides?
Wonder if they’re the great blue Buffaloes these days?
That’s now 8 LOB in three innings…way to go M’s!
I like it. It’s not really slowing the game action for me.
I know that guy! He tried to get me to sign a petition outside Trader Joes!
Yeesh, a halfway decent baseball team would be up by at least three by now.
Anyone else think Lopez looks like he’s wearing a giant set of pajamas? He would be if the M’s used the period correct elastic band pants instead of the the belted pants their using tonight.
I really wish this whole “throwback uniform” thing would go away.
There’s a reason neither team wears these hideous uniforms anymore.
I’m predicting a 1-0 win for the Friars…as Washout gets burned on a solo HR from somebody.
Meanwhile, a nifty 14 H, 8 BB shutout for Wolf.
Actually, I miss Ron Fairly.
Meanwhile, a nifty 14 H, 8 BB shutout for Wolf.
Jinx
Crap, first time I quote anybody, I knew I’d screw that up.
Wow…guess that prediction didn’t last long — which is good.
You can have him. He treated the entire audience like it was listening to its first baseball game.
I’ll take Fairly, you can have Sims.
80 – Sad, but I actually agree with you…
gee, I wonder why they’ve never brought back the “Turn ahead the clock” unis?
One of the few ground-breaking innovations actually created by the Mariners….
81, they didn’t let him do it much, but Fairly was actually a good play-by-play guy. And even if he wasn’t the best color guy, he didn’t take himself seriously and seemed to have fun calling the game. And he wasn’t a homer, which I appreciated.
There’s a youtube link somewhere of the Sportscenter anchors just making all sorts of fun about the turn ahead the clock unis. Pretty funny.
Those unis were a slight against God. Absolutely hideous.
Those “Turn Ahead the Clock” unis were actually kinda cool…the only thing is, the last (only?) time I remember that promotion, it was against the Twins and Gil Meche wound up getting his rear end handed to him in that game.
This is the the TATC link…
Ha! Speaking of not being a homer…I think I just heard Dave Niehaus joke with Fairly that Ron’s last year’s numbers look better than a lot of the current Mariners!
over on the radio side Red was tweaking Dave for messing up Brian Giles’ name (”Warren Giles? I thought you were going to introduce me as Carl Fairly”) and when talking about his half-a-season stats in ‘78, Dave pointed out that his 1/2 season numbers looked really good when you looked at the numbers they’ve been seeing all season …
I’m liking this Vidroless lineup thing…
Ichiro! 3/4!
Didn’t someone say the LOB record was 20? Whoohoo! With 4 more half-innings to go, there’s no way the Mariners don’t add another notch to their season of record-breakers!
they did it first in ‘98 vs KC, and then the next year (when everbody else joined in) they played the Twins.
Jr decided the unis looked better (so to speak) with backwards hats, and without the t-shirt sleeves hanging out of the pixie-vests, so he cut the sleeves off of his undershirt– a lot of the guys followed suit, and it was like a lot of Ted Kluszewskis out there
Washburn last 28 days: 3.13 ERA
Hopefully teams see that, like it, and offer us something for him. That is, if they don’t look at his other stats.
I LOVED the ‘98 Marniers TATC uniforms…
…not so much the ‘99 efforts.
Hell, how can you not love a uniform that makes Rob Ducey look cool?!?!
Intentionally walking willie, theres something you wont see everyday.
Wow! how can you possibly want to intentionally walk bloomquist
I would much rather pitch to him than Washburn.
in ‘02 they went through an amazing LOB streak the 2nd half — I actually started noting it down on the game log. Their high that year was 18 vs Texas in about the 2nd from the last week of the year …
7 walks? Who are these guys, and what have they done with the Mariners?
How many baserunners on third do you think have stolen home during an intentional walk? Surely it has happened in the past?
dang, I wish I could watch video on this pea-brained machine.
AL
New York [vs Boston]
20
09-21-1956
A new record was just made.
is it just me or does the powder blue make the Mariners look fat?
Nah, that’s just Carlos Silva.
nothing makes Ichiro! look fat.
Nice, Dave. You just said 1870 throwback night.
I think the uniforms make them look like little kids, wearing over-sized onesies that you see on toddlers.
Ah, there’s Wash, I thought we’d lost him there for about 6 innings.
Chase Headley was on the phone to the Beavers broadcast booth last night during the PCL game broadcast, talking about how exciting it has been to have been called up to the bigs
I REALLY wish they would make the jerseys ‘True’ throwbacks and make them cut like the originals as well and not just look like them.
In fact, that was the original plan until they had Silva try on the original style cut. The marketing staff went blind and changes were promptly made.
Now if only I could figure out why my girlfriend has this obsession with what she calls ‘poop brown’ Padres jerseys…
In my zombie-like devotion (addiction? insanity?) I’m still watching all the Mariner games, but these guys are draining my love of baseball. I can’t decide whether I prefer watching them get their asses kicked by a good team that plays good baseball, or watching them in a close game where nobody plays good baseball.
Please, baseball gods, give me something besides Ichiro! every night and Felix every fifth game. I know I can’t get a healthy Beltre’ this season, but what about a Lopez that can consistently catch a routine grounder? Just some little surprise to remind me of how wonderful the game is.
wash is a much better NL pitcher, someone has to want him in the NL
I wonder what the record for skinniest manager is… Riggleman is up there…
you know, this is like watching an NBA “Turn back the clock to 1978″ night if the players elected to wear long baggy shorts instead of the classic short-shorts.
yea kenji is the problem wash…last 2 games he has caught when you pitched and you did well against the nl teams but if he or anyone catches you against a al team look out….do you think it may be the DH that is your problem?
Riggleman looks in shape, though– unlike the scrawny Jimmy Leyland
Anyone in SD going to the game tomorrow night?
scrappy willie even get the calls he was out
Here it comes…..YES! ‘outstanding hustle out of the box’, i love Rizz, always comes through in the clutch.
I missed commenting on it earlier, but…
What is your reaction as a pitcher when you’re instructed to intentionally walk Willie Bloomquist?
I’m not sure I wouldn’t ask for a trade on the spot.
I want to see Guevara throw a sinker to Castro.
not a bad stroke from Morrow…why is it that our young pitchers are better hitters then the people we have playing 1B and DH?
Wow. I am totally digging the new 3-D Gameday.
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Wow, Wash is looking good lately, I feel like such a jerk for doubting him today, but then it is the Padres.
Every M’s fan should hope Washburn pitches well. Then maybe the team can trick a GM into trading for him.
As ‘less than pretty’ as the Columbia Blues may be, if the M’s play like this wearing these I’m all for them playing in these unis for awhile.
What was uglier though, these baby blue or Colorado’s all black vests from last year?
Well, Leyland is 63.
Shannon said that she thought when Joh went out to talk with Washburn before facing A. Gonzalez at the end of the game that they looked relaxed talking — she waited until the other media walked away to ask Wash if that was the case, giving him the option to not answer.
He said that he did want to answer, and when asked “more on the same page?” said (this is my hasty transcribing of a long ramble) “yeah, very much, when Roger [Hansen] was brought in and spoke to Joh, we knew that communication was an issue, Joh and I have done a lot of work behind the scenes to get better, Roger must have said something that made it click, because the communication is better, I’ve said before, I love Joh, he’s a great guy”
Drayer reminds us that Hansen spent 3 years in Japan, with the same team that Joh later played for
M’s had someone steal home against them on a walk, but not an intentional one, the Indians I think.
We left too many guys on base, to be sure…but I think I could manage accepting a Mariners team where, for the rest of the year, Washburn gives up 2 runs over 7 2/3rds and we score enough runs to win.
If it means losing the running jokes about Washburn not getting along with Johjima, I’ll take it. If it means accepting WFB as our singles hitting platoon CF, I’ll take it. If it means accepting Raul as our LF and not our DH, I’ll take it. If it means accepting Brandon Morrow as a lights out closer and not the starter he might become, I’ll take it.
I have no illusions that this team isn’t the trainwreck it’s proven itself to be so far…and winning a few games shouldn’t change anyone’s mind…but it can make the rest of this season more bearable…and I’ll take it.
To me, the thing I took from this game is that it sure seems like Richie has already lost his patience for his new “I’ve adjusted and now I’m a slap hitting singles guy” approach and has gone back to swinging and missing mightily… Is there any point in letting this particular farce go on?