Game 157, A’s at Mariners
DMZ · September 29, 2009 at 6:30 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Felix Day. Oh how I love Felix Day.
Versus Trevor Cahill. Might be a fine, cold night to see some quality pitching.
RF-L Ichiro!
CF-R Gutierrez
2B-R Lopez
DH-L Griffey
3B-R Beltre
1B-L Carp
LF-R Hall
C-R Johnson
SS-R Josh Wilson
ZiPS projected him to get 1 more for the rest of the season and he got it tonight. If he somehow got to 20, I think he’s going to want to play next year.
Gruffy has been Mr. three True Outcomes tonight. What’re the chances he keeps it up?
Griffey, stupid autocorrect…
And he keeps it up with the K.
Attendance of 18,167 tonight.
Gruffy fits in with calling Fred McGriff the Crime Dog.
18,167 cold, cold souls.
There are not 18k people here. Either that or 5k are hiding in the beer garden drinking to stay warm.
The Rob Johnson man-love by Sims and Blowers has to stop.
I knew there had to be a good reason to be sitting in the ballpark. Don’t have to listen to the Rob Johnson man-crush.
Oh yeah and I got to watch Felix pitch.
Cannot complain about Mr. Lowe’s performance there. No reason to let them hit the ball.
What an idiot Wak is allowing Felix out in the 8th on a cold night over 110 pitches. This exactly what Toronto did to McGowen in a meaningless game no less.
Why take a chance on blowing out his arm, then if he is ok expect him to come back sunday ready to go.
Was Hall tiptoeing to first there?
Bill Hall both can’t run and won’t run. That was ugly.
Wak isn’t screwing around. Aardsma coming in for the 9th in a non-save situation.
I’ve never seen catcher’s interference in person.
Catcher’s interference, again, Rob…Oh, the fourth of the year. Good to know. Or his fourth error? Surely there’s been more.
So Hannahan is out to play first, but Hall stays in left? That makes no sense.
Catcher interference… might be the first time I’ve seen that live.
I thought he was going to pull Aardsma after the walk.
Hall could have had that foul ball.
“Full throttle it wasn’t” true words from Sims.
what the hell is Bill Hall doing in the field. Saunders would have had that foul ball for sure. Bill Hall looked like he was running to first base there…
or should I say, Langerhans or Saunders could have gotten to that. If Hall is still not 100%, put in a defensive replacement.
God, I hate Johnson.
Ooohhh. He almost had that one. He was on his hores, but just couldn’t quite get it.
Where’s Endy Chavez when you need him? Try and catch that.
Or his horse…
I don’t think his hores would go that fast.
If Hall is hurting, why wouldn’t you pull him for defensive purposes for the ninth? You have one excellent and one fleet outfielder to take his spot. If Hall isn’t hurting, he’s been dogging it all game and should have been pulled at least after the foul ball, if not on the “run” to first.
Liked the totally insincere man hug from AA to Johnson. Then how Rob ran after him, all “What’s wrong, baby?”
.500 baby!
Josh “You Know” Wilson
.500 baby!
Yes! .500. Oh, that sounds so sweet after last year. So many things to look forward to next year.
But maybe many things to miss.
There was a post on Beltre’s terrible AB (in Toronto) not too long ago. That AB was pretty visible. But did you see him flying down the line after a foul ball in the 9th? He never got there. Neither did…Hall. But you could see Beltre’s pure joy of the *game*…
Well, I froze my ass off in Safeco at a game on a night like this a few years ago, so I can’t really blame Lauren or any of the other “18,000” who stayed away — heck, even in day games I often go up to the cheap seats and sit in the sun to warm up.
Getting back to Felix: that Kennedy AB at the top of the 5th was a thing of beauty. If you can, watch it again: it was absolutely unfair. I don’t think any batter in baseball has a chance against that sequence short of an eyes-closed swing. The called 3rd strike started across the plate at the top of the strikezone but Johnson caught it in the dirt.
If anyone is up and has MLB TV on their cable, they are showing Game 7 of the 1965 World Series, Koufax’s last World Series win. Interesting note: for the last time ever (and first since 1940), no winning pitcher in this Series was relieved; they all pitched complete games. Imagine that today!
So, what I am to understand is … friday’s game will involve thermal underwear, a blanket and lots of coffee?
Snuggies with the compass rose?
I’d be interested in specific thoughts on Kikuchi himeslf and how much interest the Mariners have in him.
I’ve read that he compares favorably to Tazawa, and is a better prospect then Junichi was at his age, but could sign for much less since he isn’t as old or as polished.