Game 108, Mariners at Royals
Hey look, Bruce Chen is still in the majors. Well, I shouldn’t say still, he’s left-handed and just thirty-two, so odds are he could be around for a while yet.
In other Mariners-related news, Shelton cleared waivers and will be suiting for Tacoma shortly and Michael Saunders has a somewhat altered batting stance that he credits for his success this series. I credit facing the Royals without having to go up against Greinke or Meche, but that works too. It hasn’t helped him move up in the lineup though: he’s ninth again tonight.
Lineup:
RF Ichiro!
1B Branyan
2B Lopez
DH Sweeney
3B Beltre
CF Gutierrez
SS The Good J. Wilson
C Johnson
LF Saunders
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Figures the first and only game I get to see this year and Vargas is spinning this gem… Oh well at least I’m in right field near Ichiro
There’s the Yuni we knew 🙂
Yeah, that’s kinda sad, actually. Showing my age here a bit, but Hughes gave us some of the funniest and, at times, most poignant moments in film in over the past 30 years. After all, who wouldn’t want to ditch class to go to the ball game with Ferris Bueller?
You’ll be missed, JH.
Sims giving a tongue bath for old times sakes to Willie…can this game be any more of a torture?
How is it that the M’s lineup can somehow seem to make a soupcan like Bruce Chen look like the freaking second coming of Randy Johnson?
Can’t say we haven’t had our chances tonight.
Wow, they’re going to keep sending Vargas out there until his arm falls off?
Whatever Vargas is doing is working. 7 groundball outs in a row.
I guess I should have asked for a win along with the 7 innings. My bad.
They could bring back Dave Valle and Ron Fairly to do commentary the last two innings.
I would have laughed so hard if Yuni’s “shovel pass” had gone into right field.
Yeah, but then all Fairly would talk about is how much snow they had to plow off the field for Opening Day in Montreal back in 1971.
That was a great play by Yuni… man I miss him.
I don’t believe it. Rizzs called it before the game.
Sometimes the Rizzer, Dave, and Ron would predict a homer by every M batter that came up.
And when one of those batters finally delivered, in the 8th or 9th inning, the broadcast booth would resound with, “YOU CALLLED IT! YOU CALLED IT!”
It was Toronto in 1977 . . . at least have your facts straight if you’re bad mouthing Fairly.
I will say, I need to go to KC someday to go the Negro Baseball HOF, pay homage to Buck, and eat some BBQ. Not necessarily in that order.
OMG . . . Johnson moves into sole position of 5th place all time in Montana history.
Naturally, Johnson up, and hits one of his doubles. Fitting beginning to the end of the game.
So would you call Rob Johnson double or nothing?
After johnsons double some Royals fans behind me were yelling “hang on to the lead” I know their bullpen is bad but c’mon…
There was Betancourt’s attempt to make a web gem……I sure am happy we got rid of that!
From the espn.com Box Score:
J Wilson SS 3 0 0 1 0 0 9 .286 .276
There’s also the American Jazz Museum and a not-bad-though-not-great WW I Museum. A nice minor league ballpark in Kansas City KS, and half of their big Union Station has been remade into a big shopping and restaurant area. Not sure what else KC has beyond that. At some point someone built a very striking modernistic house or building with a big cantilevered floor, like an upside-down capital L, but I think that building was slated for demolition. Not the world’s greatest city, but it does have some stuff.
POTENTIAL NICKNAMES FOR ROB JOHNSON:
1. Montana Jo
2. The ‘Conda Kid
3. R-Jazz (hey, I’m not going anywhere near ‘R-Jizzle’, though I bet a certain female reader of USSM would love it)
4. Spike. Just Spike. Like the last really boring player I remember playing for the M’s, Spike Owen.
5. Doyle. (I jokes! I jokes!)
6. Big Chief Weak-stick
7. Razzle-Dazzle. (a reverse nickname)
8. Cobra! Give him sex appeal and tough-guy mystique at the same time!
Rick Rizzs: “Orlando Hudson takes off with the pitch and there’s the throw to second…IN TIME! Holy cow, what a throw! Mark another victim for Cobra Johnson! He makes it look so easy, doesn’t he?”
Anaconda, Mt. “snake bit.” “snake bite” “poison”
“Eunectes murinus”
In KC, Arthur Bryant’s barbecue (just by the Negro Leagues museum and the jazz museum).
Rob Johnson nickname: 5 hole
Anyone notice that Johnson has been hitting and has gotten his BA up from the mid .180’s to an even .230 now? Maybe he is finally finding himself offensively….