Cactus League Game #25: Moyers at Felixes
This is a spring training game. This is a spring training game that, improbably, takes place after the M’s have played two regular season games, and after they’ve played two additional Cactus League games since returning in a sea of viruses. We’ve heard reports that Franklin Gutierrez was near returning, but he hasn’t and won’t today. There’s just about no way that this could capture your attention. Unless….
There’s a line-up for this game, but it’s of lesser importance. This game is just one joke, repeated for 4-5 innings. That’s actually OK; this joke happens to be fairly amusing. The avuncular looking man pictured above, grinning and holding a baseball as if describing it to a first-grade class, has made the Rockies rotation after a great spring. Moyer was the oldest active player when the M’s sent him east in 2006. He told everyone that he would rehab from Tommy John surgery and come back better than ever, and while no one would’ve wished him ill, I don’t think many thought this was possible. Opposing him is Felix Hernandez, another one of the three best M’s hurlers ever. Tune in at 1; I believe this one’s on ROOT sports, as well as 710am/Mariners Radio/MLB Gameday audio/etc.
The line-up of lesser importance:
1: Figgins (LF)
2: Ryan (SS)
3: Ichiro! (RF)
4: Smoak (1B)
5: Montero (C)
6: Wells (CF)
7: Peguero (DH)
8: Liddi (3B)
9: Kawasaki (2B)
SP: King Felix
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………………..and figgins doesn’t disappoint. Got the RBI, kept the rally going… and then kills the rally trying to go from 1st to 3rd on a hard shot hit to LF. I knew it was too good to be true.
SeattleSons… It was such a good at bat it made him forget how to run the bases… Distracted by his own success.
Would’ve loved to see Ichiro’s at-bat with runners at first and second. Nevermind though, nice job Figgins you butthead.
“It was such a good at bat it made him forget how to run the bases… Distracted by his own success”
More than likely, he was “stunned” (instead of surprised) by it.
Devotee… I think you’re right. He probably didn’t get many high fives in the dugout. Guys probably gave him the cold shoulder. I wouldn’t have. I’d knock his arse out!
Kawasaki looks like Ichiro hitting up there. Very confident, locked in, and in control. When he first broke into the pro’s he played some third base. I wonder if he might replace chone or take over a utlility role if we trade or release him. I sure wouldn’t mind seeing him get 400 AB’s. .280 with 25stl bases seems pretty realistic.
Always a good idea to run into the last out at 3B when the teams best hitter is due up next. If nothing else, Figgins sure is a heady player … even if it is only spring training.
Man, Moyer does not seem to like Carlos Peguero.
So weird being 45 years old, watching Jamie Moyer play professional baseball. Successfully.
*&@^!
Marc-
I was thinking the SAME thing… Y’know, ’cause the guy has always had control issues, right? And he hit him twice?
Must fall into the “I have to fight for a job after all these years, and THIS kid is a pro ball player… Nah, not happening…”
Plunk.
PLUNK!
“I see a mad mun a diving… I see, a put out on the way…”
maybe he was afraid of the “unknown” in Peguerro (HR or K)and figured he would just play it safe and plunk him.
I hope they keep Figgins around for the home opener just so he can get his proper booing before he’s cut.
Mariners should try to help offset Figgins’ salary by offering a “Dunk Chone Figgins” tank before home games– get a look-a-like 12 year old to sit in for him and charge fans $100 a shot to put him in the drink.
Although, Just a Fan, if they cut him maybe we can have him back one night to throw out the first pitch, and get his proper boo’ing that way?
Smoak bomb?
Oh man- that bounced BACK towards the field… That could be worse than it looked. Right in the temple. Concussion possibilities right there.
are you saying Montero got hit in the HEAD??
gameday just says HBP, pinch runner, which I’m not suprised to see even if the HBP wasn’t bad.
Why can we never have anything nice?
Got hit in the head, yeah. But I doubt it was a concussion. He was shook up a bit, but more off he was ready to go take the head off of the pitcher. Hope he’s alright.
Nate-
Yeah, right in the helmet… Looked like a slider that didn’t “slide”. Not intentional, but dangerous non the less.
Devotee, that’s just wrong! A dunk tank like that is just not cool…… it should be Figgins in the tank, not a 12 year old! 🙂 I’d pay for that in a heart beat.
You’ve got it wrong, MrZ. Moyer’s pitches started out towards the middle of the plate – but they’re moving so slow, and Peggy’s gravitational well is so large…
Now I’m getting an image of the ball orbiting around Peguero while he flails at it and the catcher and ump just stand there stunned.
Sorry, missed the end, but had to come back to laugh my ass off at the image of Carlos Peguero as the new 9th planet. Dwarfing Jupiter. Does it count as a strike if the ball burns up as it enters his atmosphere?
Worse yet, now everytime he walks, I’m gonna hear in my head: “That’s one small step for bad defense, one giant leap for poor plate discipline…” (Luckily it’ll only happen about as often as we’ve been to the moon.)
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