Game 106, Mariners at Royals
Happy Beltre Day! I like to think of the Beltre-less period as a bad dream we have just woken from. Bunt to the third-base side, Royals! Do it!
5:05. I’m a little baffled by the FSN ads that try and hype this as a re-union/grudge match. Who cares that Jose Guillen is a Royal now? Or Willie Bloomquist? Betancourt? Those guys are terrible. Meche is the only interesting discussion to be had, and we’re not going to see him. Is there really an audience out there who get riled up over this stuff? Or, more likely, was this the only storyline they could think of?
Anyway. Someone apparently spotted Kenji after seeing his face on a milk carton, because he’s in the lineup tonight. Yayyy.
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Bautista through the 7th with no damage – I can exhale now.
Batista with the game’s first 1-2-3 inning for either team.
Since when does Batista have a 95 mph heater? It’s flat as a pancake, but still, where did that come from?
Hey, look at that. The Halos lost. Somehow it doesn’t make me as happy as it would have two weeks ago. But still nice. Now if only they’d do that five or six times in a row right now coupled with five or six M’s wins in a row then I might start to get really excited about that again. 🙂
That’s a pretty cool article about Sims.
In other news:
Washburn does his best regression impression in front for the lay Detroit baseball fan. What a great trade by Z…I’m just glad he had that start today instead of last week.
Is it just me or was that about the third time Niehaus has referred to the M’s as the Angels on the radio tonight? I love you Dave, but yeesh…
BURN THE WITCH!
From Drayer’s blog: “Yuni is here in part because of a recommendation of Bloomquist. The Royals asked him what he thought and Willie told them that when Yuni is on his game he can be one of the best defensive shortstops in the game.”
Thanks Willie! Helping the M’s even when you’re gone. 🙂 Also doesn’t speak much of their GM/front office when they are relying on player evaluations of another player in helping them make their moves.
Do Yuni and Willie like Silva?
Here’s a dumb question for a game thread:
Does either (or both) Pitch F/X and the FSN Tracer take into account the height of a player when determining the strike-zone? For any of it to be accurate you’d have to raise and lower, and lengthen and shorten the damn box.
Anyone know?
Wow, Corcoran cleared waivers and then declined an assignment to Tacoma. Risky considering the bad season he’s having. I don’t see any teams picking him up this year. At least in Tacoma he’d have gotten a September call up.
MoE: Ha. Awesome. New full-time job for someone in the Mariners front office: Friendship building.
And, more importantly, does Silva like ponies?
Lol
The tracer “box graphic” does not change size, but the area it represents does change according to the heighth of each batter. A human sets that area, so there is some margin for error.
Nice article on Sims. I wonder why that game started “early”.
Why? So he can crush them?
Job One? A Felix Buddy.
I think a Felix entourage is more fitting.
We can only pray and boy am I glad I wasn’t drinking anything when I read that.
Kirby Arnold had a note about Corcoran– no one seems to have talked to him, though.
Oh good grief… At this rate, I’ll wake up tomorrow morning and this game will still be going…
I’m getting more than a little tired of Aardsma.
[find your shift key]
That was a bit of an adventure…
Samurai Ichiro!
“if rob johnson was catching this wouldnt happen.”
Because Wak would be calling the pitches?? 😉
Thank you Ichiro! Only 9 back now everyone! 😉
That was one ugly, ugly win.
“Only 9 back now everyone”
It’s looking like only 4.5 behind Texas though. It would be nice to finish 2nd. On another note, if TB wins, only 7.5 out of the Wild Card. Playoffs here we come. 😉
Ichiro?
ICHIRO!
Came back from the walk just in time!
Michael Saunders needs a psych evaluation, by the way.
Not only is he sliding head first into first base, but he doesn’t even twitch when there is an inside pitch that almost hits him.
Craig Bagwell-esque.
ooooh, Rob was so insulted when Gastineau assumed that Wak was calling the games 🙂
Who’s Craig Bagwell? Did Craig Biggio and Jeff Bagwell mate?
Ha ha ha… sometimes I wonder if they…
Oh, nevermind.
I meant Craig Biggio..
I mean they were team mates a long, LONG time… A late night in Miami… You never know.
Well, that sure killed the game thread pretty effectively…
I lost my internet connection and was expecting to see a couple hundred million “ICHIRO!” posts. That was one of the most wonderful catches ever, are we getting too jaded?
Both?
Ichiro!!!!! 🙂
Checking fangraphs, the leverage index for Aardsma on that last out was 10.87, wow.
I sometimes wonder if Aardsma is a Scandinavian translation of Mesa…
It’s a gift.
Either that or it’s German for “Thank God Ichiro’s out there, or I’d be boned.”
Beltre sure had a tough first day back.
Oh for five with three strikeouts and an error.
Nope. It’s an acronym: Again Another Relatively Dull Situation Made Agonizing