Game 8, Indians At Mariners
Fister vs Masterson, 6:05 pm.
Well, regardless of what happens, it’s nearly guaranteed to be more fun than last night, right?
I’ve referenced Justin Masterson a few times when talking about Michael Pineda, as he is the prototypical right-handed starter with a huge platoon split. Masterson throws from a very low arm angle which makes it really tough for right-handers to pick up the ball, but lefties get a nice long look at it coming in towards them, and the low arm slot makes it tough for him to throw anything that doesn’t dive in towards a left-handed hitter. Look for the M’s left-handed bats to be able to work a bunch of walks tonight, and if they can string together a few extra-base hits, they could put up some runs.
It will be an absolute miracle if Miguel Olivo gets a hit off Masterson, however.
Ichiro, RF
Figgins, 3B
Bradley, LF
Cust, DH
Smoak, 1B
Olivo, C
Kennedy, 2B
Ryan, SS
Saunders, CF
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Milton doesn’t look mentally stable
If he strikes out he might break something
Bradley’s got earplugs and is crying!
Never noticed the earplugs until this at bat.
Damn– I know you can’t hear me (earplugs) but nice try Milton…
So close.
The camera guys seem to be finding lots of mildly disturbing people to film tonight.
How sad would it be to pinch hit Jack Wilson for Jack Cust? (shakes head)
The camera guys seem to be finding lots of mildly disturbing people to film tonight.
Just mildly disturbing?
Well, in relation to the level of play we’re forced to watch… That’s what he meant. I think.
Maybe I have a moderately high threshold for that sort of thing, I dunno.
Yes…Milton was crying.
As sad as thinking our best way to score here is for Figgins to steal so our freaking DH can bunt him in…
The dude with the bat was kind of… embarassing.
Just like Cust’s at bat.
Scouting report: throw sliders to Jack Cust.
I hate Jack Cust…
100000 strikeouts, 0.0000000 HOMERS!
AAAAAAaaaaaaaarrrrrrgggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhh… Figgins gets in scoring position– twice– and nobody (but Bradley) can even put the ball in play… 3 guys strike out with him in scoring position…
Now THERE’s some clutch hitting to complain about.
Poor Eric Wedge. Week one, and things are crumbling already in the clubhouse. I did like the reaction shot of him when Bradley was talking to the ump. Just a little, grim smile.
Out of just one eye. It’s a real talent he has.
I wonder if any team in major league history has had a less intimidating 3-4-5 in its lineup over two seasons than the 2010-11 Mariners. I’m not demanding Griffey-Martinez-Buhner, but I’d like at least one player whose at-bat would make me, say, delay going to the bathroom until he’d been up.
Wow can’t even get the runner to 3rd. Amazing.
Anybody remember why we all became Mariner’s Fans? I’m having trouble rememebering the good days (they were so short!).
Smoak might have had the most impressive at bat with runners in scoring position tonight– a wobbly nubber to the short stop. At least it was in play, and not caught.
Progress?
8 years now, or thereabouts…
And Breadbaker, I was thinking about that the other day. We don’t even have ONE guy that say, makes the pitcher a little nervous about grooving a fastball to. It’s depressing when the heart of your lineup wouldn’t even be batting 7-8-9 on almost every other team in the league.
I don’t really know what the M’s are going for this year. I know its a rebuilding year or whatever but this team might be worst than last year. Wish they had one guy that could hit consistently. 25-30 hr hitter would at least make me think we would have shots to get back in games. I’m tired of unproductive at bat after unproductive at bat.
Breadbaker-
Have you forgotten Sexson-Vidro-Johjima? That was awful… Maybe a tie, though.
Third double play tonight. I swear, defensively we can throw some leather around.
Only problem is, we HIT like the bats are made of leather.
Edgar-
I was 10 years old, and didn’t now any better… Plus, there was Dave Niehaus, whose hypnotic voice could convince me… “nothing is wrong… everything is fine… nothing is wrong… everything is fine…”
Too low + too outside = strike!
If Langerhans hit a homer here, Jack Wilson would have to come in and play in the 10th.
Okay I’m going with the “Rally Double-Shot of Scotch”!!!! Here it goes!
How depressing is it when Ryan Langerhans is the guy you bring in when you really NEED offense.
I mean my god is this a joke.
USS Failboat…..
But that wasn’t going to happen.
Ah, well.
Looks like these guys are just gonna mail it in all year and collect their paychecks. Horrible team, no passion, no heart.
2-160 is actually happening.
I’m embarrassed for Fister…
Two starts, 3 earned runs + 2 unearned runs…
0-2.
Poor guy.
Yay, we didn’t lose by as much as usual!
So the pattern has been established…
Just go stand around when the starting pitcher is throwing at you, try to get his pitch count up, and then try to mount a comeback against the bullpen late in the game.
That’s all we got.
Is it just me or does this team seem worse than last year? I didn’t think it was possible…
I do, truly, appreciate that Saturday games start at 6pm, so we have an extra hour to drink afterwards… (Shick Shadel pays extra for them to start at 6pm, I’m thinking)
How are park factor adjustments made for a team that strikes out as much as this team?
If the fences were moved in 30′ – only when the Mariners were at bat – would we have scored more than 2 runs tonight?
Nicely pitched game by Fister, though. Losing on an unearned run – from a bad throw to a base that a runner was not attempting to get to – is tough to take, but unfortunately not surprising for this team.
Wilson has become a flake. Bradley is nuts. Cust is a disaster and League is a zoo. I think they will all be gone sooner rather than later, but who will be first?
marinersneedmorebp.com
I see a great need.
I wonder if they can keep the roof closed all season. Dave Niehaus doesn’t need to see this.
But we sure could use someone like Dave to broadcast it.
It’s 5pm up here in Alaska. I know I’ve got a buzz on myself.
Shameful. Incompetent. Unwatchable. Revolting. Inept. Sickening. Pathetic. Minor-leage-ish. …my two sons who stopped being baseball fans a couple of years ago, because of this putrid mess, and will never return.
Oh man. I was hoping to find some stat that’d give some hope, you know like how Figgins and Saunders currently have absurdly low BABIPs which are clearly unsustainable.
Well, the team’s BABIP is currently .274 – not really all that unusual. Team ISO is .085. Maybe we really are this bad.
Before tonight’s game we were hitting worse as a team through EIGHT GAMES than last season’s 162 game “offering”. Chill out.
I was at this game…… I got a bobblehead though 🙂