Game 159, Angels at Mariners
DMZ · September 25, 2008 at 6:10 pm · Filed Under Game Threads
Moseley v Jimenez. This’ll be fun.
Lineups:
Mariners
RF-L Ichiro!
Assorted jerks and one person who apparently stuck up for him.
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Where is Silva tonight? Is he still trying to eat $50,000,000 worth of _________?
(insert whatever you feel like)
I hope Ichiro has a huge night, but I will forgive him if he doesn’t.
Ryan Divish has some choice Riggleman quotes about the anonymous comments
Jim Riggleman for PR Director!
Bravo Riggleman.
awww. Edgar on the pregame.
he’s talking about the education foundation he & Holli have begun.
and he loves Ichiro
damn him.
padding his stats with useless hits.
what are they supposed to do with that hit?
Once again, my respect for Riggs has been elevated. In-game tactics aside, I think he’s done an excellent job handling what is pretty tough job at the moment.
Priceless! 🙂
huh. they scored after it. how unusual.
The “Watch Live on MLB.TV” link on the Mariners page is sending me to the damn Yankees multimedia page. Bogus!
Selfish Ichiro, getting on base so he could score the first run.
Now that’s more like it. Team-player-Ichiro strikes out looking so the other guys won’t feel so bad.
Geez, I didn’t know Rizzy was working for the Angels broadcast team these days. He’s been carrying on about them like they were the greatest thing since sliced bread for like the last 15 minutes or so now.
Since this is a game thread… with the Nats game being canceled today (with no make up) it now looks possible to win / lose the Strasburg race by a half game. That would be the ultimate kick in the groin after such a lovely season.
Hey, no fair, The Nats are pulling a McCain.
with the Nats game being canceled today (with no make up) it now looks possible to win / lose the Strasburg race by a half game. That would be the ultimate kick in the groin after such a lovely season.
Actually this situation only helps the M’s toward getting the top pick. Say the M’s lose out (58-104). Doesn’t really matter what their record is, only the closeness of the Nats, but I’ll just use that for simplicity.
Nats go 57-104 (Nats pick first)
Had the game been played, the Nats still would have picked first whether they won (58-104) or lost (57-105).
Nats go 58-103 (M’s pick first)
Had the game been played, the Nats would have needed to win (59-103) for the M’s to retain the first pick. Lose (58-104), and they end up tying the M’s, winning by tiebreaker (last year’s record).
It’s actually a relatively huge break for the Mariners in terms of getting the top pick. It can’t hurt them, but it might help in that it swings one of the possible tie scenarios to a half-game “win” for them. 🙂
This has got to be in the running for lowest comment count on a game thread.
Not that it’s surprising.
Sweet, we moved up a half game in the Strasburg standings
Would they make the Nats play the final game if it could force a tie with the M’s and change the draft standings? Or is that only if a playoff chance is on the line any missed games are made up?
Pedro, but the Nationals are already at 59-99. I do think their not playing today increases the Mariners’ chances of comind dead last, but your math must be off.
That said, I haven’t parsed all the options.
Now I have.
There are sixteen possible combinations of results for the Mariners and Nationals – each team can win 0, 1, 2 or 3 games.
Of those 16 combinations only 3 result in the Mariners finishing with a better record than the Nationals.
Those three are:
1: M’s go 3-0; Nat’s go 0-3
2: M’s go 3-0; Nat’s go 1-2
3: M’s go 2-1; Nat’s go 0-3
Colm,
Yes, that’s right, the particular amount of wins that I mentioned isn’t possible (I should have just looked that up to avoid it). However, as I said, it’s not the number that I’m getting at, but the proximity.
Adjust it for an actual possibility:
M’s finish 60-102:
Nats go 59-102 (Nats pick first)
Had the game been played, the Nats still would have picked first whether they won (60-102) or lost (59-103).
Nats go 60-101 (M’s pick first)
Had the game been played, the Nats would have needed to win (61-101) for the M’s to retain the first pick. Lose (60-102), and they end up tying the M’s, winning by tiebreaker (last year’s record).
You can also rehash it with plugging in the M’s going 61-101 and Nats finishing at 60-101 or 61-100.
Sound better?
Looking at it another way, the cancellation of the Washington/Florida game tonight caused the M’s to only need two of (M’s losses + Nat’s wins) out of the six combined remaining games, rather than three in seven (six + the one cancelled game).
Which means, they could actually “clinch” tomorrow. 😉
Edit: I must have been typing that for a long time!
my, it did get quiet after I had to head out.