Game 57, Twins at Mariners
DMZ · June 7, 2009 at 12:55 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Slowey v Bedard.
Burke! Jamie Burke!
Um, also, Cedeno at short, Chavez in left. But Burke’s back! Denny Stark gets the DFA to make room on the roster.
Slowey v Bedard.
Burke! Jamie Burke!
Um, also, Cedeno at short, Chavez in left. But Burke’s back! Denny Stark gets the DFA to make room on the roster.
I thought you were joking, naviomelo. I thought the team released Dickey.
BURKE!!!
Burke POWER
Holy smokes!
Well, now fuckedy fuck at all the messing around with bunts and steals. One or two more runs would be nice here.
Juneau –
Ok, now I know you are a genious in disguise!
And Burke doubles the OPS from the catcher position this year. Sigh.
There’s a bit of a cushion! Thank you Jamie Burke! Who is warming up for Bedard?
No, I’m not, zvazda, because I didn’t notice that Dickey’s in a Twins uniform! Gotta get those damn glasses.
Because I’m sure at least one curveball has been thrown in this game, I think this is relevant.
I just read an amazing article I wanted to share with everyone here about why curveballs are so hard to hit, and why they appear to so abruptly change direction even though they break on a continuous path.
Here’s the article and here’s the award winning optical illusion that explains it.
Really, check this out. It’ll blow your mind.
award winning huh? what award? lol…. let me guess, you wrote the article?
ha! No, not at all 🙂
I do editing for an online news site and I ran across it while browsing for stories.
The award is the Visual Illusion of the Year by the US Vision Sciences Society.
I get nothing from it, other than the satisfaction of knowing why a good curveball looks like it’s bouncing off a plate of glass when you’re trying to hit it. 😉
A home run from the catcher position. 3 from Kenji 1 from Burke. What to those other guys do? Oh, that’s right there great at defense. Right? Oh? So the cannot hit or field. Hmmm! Why are they up here?
Batista is such a torment to watch.
I don’t know if Batista actually pitches slowly or if time just seems to stand still when he’s on the mound… but he seems to take forever.
Endy! Defense matters.
First 1-2-3 inning for either team.
It’s too bad this is our last game with the Twins this year, because we finally found someone who can get Mauer and Morneau in the late innings. Nice job, Garrett Olson.
I thought Lowe is closing today? I doooooooooon’t like this if he’s going 2 innings.
There’s still Brandon Morrow in the pen, right? *blinking*
I was thinking White. Thanks for the scare though Juneau!
Morrow’s closing according to Niehaus.
AAEEIII…*starting running around room like dog when thunder rolls*
Well, he isn’t closing if we score at least two runs, right?
He’s not up and throwing yet, though. Only White is throwing right now, again according to Niehaus.
Could this game take any longer?
Sure, Scott. Morrow could give up two runs. Is that what you want?
Swinging on a 3-0 pitch? Oh well.
Excitement time…
Well I’m trusting Wakamatsu to keep him away from the Twins. I must have dozed off a half dozen times this game though.
I like Sean White as the choice here.
Nice pitching, Sean White.
I’ve been planning on getting out on the bike today after the game and let me tell you, as someone who is both a fan and has post-game plans, this kind of long, hit/walk/inning affair is just killing me.
Wlad sitting on bench thinking “wow, you can catch balls on the warning track? Who knew?”
Those were balls??? Damn it, don’t want to see Kubel.
Endy!
Huzzah. Disaster averted, Bedard with the shining W.
Thank you Endy! Finally its over haha… Thats 3 series wins a row I do believe.
Series wins? Is that you, Geoff?
Free regular roast beef at Arby’s if you bring in today’s today score.
Nice to hear Dave actually mention that Bucknor had a mystery strike zone today
Watching the last few innings on mlb.com, he was as likely to call a strike a ball as a ball a strike. Imagine having someone like that behind the plate the day after an extra inning night game where you depend on your starter to go a long way to give your bullpen some rest. He appeared, at least, to be consistently inconsistent, but when you leave pitchers with no clue where you’re calling things, you’re just going to increase tempers and wear out arms.
I kept expecting to see steam out of Bedard’s ears.
It was nice to see White get a chance to close, and nice to see that Wakamatsu now has a note that says “Aardsma only available two games in a row.” It was nice that we had three straight games he could pitch in and nice that someone else got to pitch the ninth.