Game 140, Yankees at Mariners
DMZ · September 5, 2008 at 6:10 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Pettitte v Morrow.
I didn’t get down to Tacoma to catch any of Morrow’s starts, but I’m not sure that it matters: he only made five starts, twenty three innings. How stretched out can he be, really? The adjustments he’s going to have to make are as much in approach and particularly pacing as anything else. No matter how well he did in Tacoma, the temptation to resort to throwing gas and giving up on his other pitches when he’s in a jam could throw the whole thing off.
And apologies to the 5 people who saw this go up a day early at the scheduled *time*.
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Oh man, I can’t take much more of this!
Nice Balentien
Oh Wlad you crazy guy. Nice Catch.
Thank you Wlad!!! Looks like he might be getting tired now, but I think they need to let him go for it. He could theoretically only need a half dozen pitches to get 4 more outs…
Ichiro stinks.
Damn damn.
OK, pull him now.
Congrats, Morrow. That was awesome.
isn’t that always the way …
Great job Brandon!!!
I was kind of hoping the yankees would get a hit, just so that they could get him out of there before his arm fell off. There are more CG shout-outs and no hitters in his future.
sonofabitch
Damn it, damn it, damn it.
Well, that was the most fun I’ve had watching the M’s in a long time. Just fantastic!!
Also:
BRANDON FUCKING MORROW!!
Tim McLelland likes to mess with Niehaus’ mind.
Dang. I guess that’s their payback for the Broussard homer against Wang last year….
Bite your tongue! Hoping the Yankees got a hit?
I was hoping for a quick 8th.
What a great start for the kid.
It would really make me happy looking forward to next season if it weren’t for the fact that Chuck Armstrong says we’re going to have the next few years rebuilding. He a pro, so who am I to question it?
What a shame.
That was Awesome (Brandon’s overall performance)!!
At least it wasn’t a cheapy like CC’s.
I’m so glad we now have Brandon Day! to go with Felix Day! It’s like there’s hope, now, or something.
I like how Ichiro made a hopeless leap for it just because he wanted it so badly for Brandon, as well
Congratulations, Brandon! That was so much fun to watch! Definitely the most exciting thing to happen in…I don’t know…years?
If he pitches anywhere near this good the rest of the season and next spring then I think we have our #2 or #3 starter figured out.
F you, Wilson Betemit. But man was that fun to watch. The crowd is totally in the game. We were all on our feet for every two-strike pitch. Morrow just looked incredible.
I haven’t had this much fun at a game all year.
looks like Norm is coming in to pitch the 9th
And why wasn’t he a starter before now
Because his command was erratic when he first came up and our bullpen needed some help back then.
Don’t you dare blow this, JJ
No, because our front office decided to spend a upper half first round pick on pitcher who they decided would be a setup guy.
They are saying Beltre’s in to play 3rd even though he may have hurt himself on the slide to end the 8th.
I think Beltre would play if he broke his leg. He’s like the anti-Bedard.
No, because our front office decided to spend a upper half first round pick on pitcher who they decided would be a setup guy.
Oh how did you come with that conclusion? His command was erratic and he was mainly a 2 pitch guy stop bashing the FO if you don’t have facts to back up your statement.
JJ has got nothing.
I didn’t know tonight was turn back the clock Yuni night.
Thanks, Alex.
Giambi would refute that, Enazario
Nice catch Beltre! I really wanted Morrow to get the W with that game.
BALLGAME !! WooHooo!
what a Mariners performance. That’s the team that I remember.
That was a fun game to watch. Why is it always a no-name utility guy who breaks up the no-no
stop bashing the FO if you don’t have facts to back up your statement.
The fact is he should’ve been in the minors this whole time working being a starter, not playing 8th inning setup guy for a s***** team. It was a stupid move having in pitch in relief for almost 2 seasons. It points to the obvious: the M’s are too concerned with roles.
He’s an immense talent who’ll be much, much more valuable as a starter than a reliever. Imagine if he’s been ‘stretching out’ the last two seasons? If he’d been able to work on additional pitches for teams not blindly chasing the playoff pipe dream?
you mean the pitcher who was scheduled to go to AA as a starter after his first spring training, until he pitched so well that Hargrove kept lobbying in the press to have him in the bullpen?
And this was coming from the mouths of people saying that we should use Morrow as closer so we could trade J.J.
Who said that?
until he pitched so well that Hargrove kept lobbying in the press to have him in the bullpen?
Yes, that pitcher. The same one Bavasi should’ve told Hargrove was going spend a little while in the minors starting. That’s my complaint, and it obviously doesn’t end with BB. The [Mariners’] inability to see beyond this season most of the time is maddening.
I think it was mentioned a handful of times in the comments, never by you guys.
I believe the Red Sox and Twins won tonight. Tomorrow, I eagerly anticipate, will show the Yank’s playoff odds to near nil.
The first time this year, am happy for FSN replay at 11 pm.
Was enjoying the game too much to hit record.
Um. Do we see Armstrong’s hand here as well?
Pretty much.
Absolutely brilliant! Congrats Brandon! 🙂
Way to put words in people’s mouths, slurve. What a few people said was that if the organization insisted on keeping him in the bullpen — which certainly seemed to be the case both last year and this, despite all their claims prior to each season — the best (highest-value use) we could hope for would be to turn him into a closer and trade JJ. That was making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, not wishing to be handed porcine pinnas.