A great day in Mariner history

DMZ · July 10, 2008 at 8:43 pm · Filed Under Mariners 

Bloomquist’s power is back! In the 9th inning, in his fourth plate appearance, Bloomquist doubled off of Alan “Hey that guy is still in baseball oh I forgot he’s left-handed” Embree. And it wasn’t one of those cheap “skipped by Ibanez” doubles, no. It was a rulebook double! Bounced into the stands! Yeaaaaaaaahhh hooooo! The Mariners get to avoid having all of baseball watch the team for the continuation of an ignoble record! Wooooo!

I believe – and Jack Howland will correct me if I’m wrong, no doubt, brings the final tally to:
87 games without an extra-base hit, short of the unofficial record of 100.
173 consecutive at-bats without an extra-base hit, short of the unofficial record of 223.
199 consecutive plate appearances without an extra-base hit, short of the unofficial record of 266.

He was only five days from going a full calendar year without anything but singles.

This brings his slugging percentage to .272 and his season line to .262/.368/.271.

May Willie fill the power void long left by Richie Sexson! All hail Willie Boom-Boom, newly revived long-ball threat!

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12 Responses to “A great day in Mariner history”

  1. msb on July 10th, 2008 8:54 pm

    I am just grateful Dave was on the call, so that I didn’t have to listen to Rizzs enthuse

  2. smb on July 10th, 2008 8:55 pm

    He was only five days from going a full calendar year without anything but singles.

    And not that many of those, either.

  3. scott19 on July 10th, 2008 9:19 pm

    It’s such a bummer that Willie Boom-Boom’s streak ended, too — now Cameron Crowe won’t be able to cast him for the lead role in the sequel to “Singles”. 🙂

  4. Jeff Nye on July 10th, 2008 9:22 pm

    I still don’t think a ground rule double should count.

  5. Breadbaker on July 10th, 2008 9:57 pm

    We could have them send the ball to the Hall of Fame with an asterisk, Jeff.

  6. Jardinero on July 10th, 2008 9:59 pm

    Don’t look now but I was reading somewhere that Ichiro is now at 100 ABs without an XBH.

  7. Go Felix on July 10th, 2008 10:08 pm

    WFB is the man, not really.

  8. feldy05 on July 10th, 2008 11:12 pm

    Wait… I missed it. Did they stop the game and give Willie the ball?

  9. DoesntCompute on July 10th, 2008 11:31 pm

    I admit that I was rooting for Brown to make the catch. I less reason to watch the Mariners now.

  10. mln on July 11th, 2008 12:53 am

    Sadly, Willie’s Streak came to an end. I guess the pressure finally got to him, as he choked and hit a double tonight.

    But Mariners fans should not feel too down.

    Ichiro’s no-XBH Streak still lives!

  11. Jeff Nye on July 11th, 2008 8:17 am

    We could have them send the ball to the Hall of Fame with an asterisk, Jeff.

    I would support that!

  12. edgar for mayor on July 11th, 2008 5:44 pm

    I was very sad.

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