Game 121, Mariners at Rangers
Mike Snow · August 16, 2013 at 5:05 pm · Filed Under Mariners
Iwakuma vs. Holland, 5:05 pm.
I’m not sure who will be around over the weekend or if there will be new game threads going up – if not, feel free to keep using this one. The lineup:
Miller SS-L
Franklin 2B-B
Seager 3B-L
Morales DH-B
Morse RF-R
Ibanez LF-L
Smoak 1B-B
Ackley CF-L
Quintero C-R
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Let’s see three for three, Condor!
Damn, that was the pitch. Drop that line drive into the corner outfield…
Yeah!
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus!
Woo-hoo!
Great at bat.
Now, get ready to ride the pine for the next 3 days so we can watch Morse play.
Westy clearly Saunders shouldn’t be starting!
Bad luck for Ackley. He hit that ball well.
Hey, Morse is due! Just keep playing him and he’ll eventually hit something…Somewhere…
Oh crap, not this again…
Son. Of. A. Bitch.
Yup, I gotta agree with the guy who posted, a few days ago, that there’s nowhere Jaso could’ve played. Our current backstops are just so superb defensively…
Uh, excuse me, Beltre?
There’s exchanging funnies with Felix and then there’s mocking outfielders when you were clearly out.
Fortunately that blown call didn’t lead to an additional run.
All is well that ends well. The blown call cost Ramirez one extra pitch. Next year, it will be a replay booth review from New York … Assuming the M’s didn’t use their one pre-sixth inning challenge already.
I don’t know how well all that is going to work out, but I can envision a whole bunch of replay requests for the “in the vicinity” play at 2B and the “glove to hand” exchanges (also at 2B). Some “arguing time” will be replaced with review administration time. As long as they get calls correct, the game will benefit, but I foresee a few scenarios where things might not go too smoothly.
I know this isn’t an original idea, but – why not put an extra ump upstairs in each stadium, the way the NFL does it?
Franklin has a hard time keeping his playing weight up and he might just be wearing down as the season drags on. I think he will be alright as he fills out and gets stronger, but this has been a real bad stretch of “dog day” baseball for him. He doesn’t have a major league body and definitely no “reserve” to tap into. Maybe he should cut in front of Morales at the chow line.
Westy, I have no idea why the replay could not be administered by an extra “official” at the game. I think the game earlier this year when (angel Hernandez crew chief) the review was conducted by the on field umps (and still blown) might be one of the reasons.
If a technical difficulty eventually prevents a replay review 3000 miles away, I am going to throw a brick through your TV, Westy.
Oh thanks Mike. Could you at least make it the smaller TV in the spare room?
Unproductive out.
Not as unproductive as the DP that Miler hit into last inning, but very uninspiring nonetheless. This team is really wretched at scratching out runs. Or even a “run.”
Come on Saunders … Have a miracle day.
This game is torture.
Ackley steps up!
Great hit by Ackley. Almost the location as his last AB, but with better luck/placement.
And what was Morales doing? Where the fuck did he think he was going? Seager had home plate locked up.
I guess the Mariners put a stop to Franklin’s 6,500 calorie a day diet.
Ackley was channeling Raul there in left.
The 6500 calorie diet was poo-poo’d well before spring Training started, but he is one of those guys (at least for now) who is going to have to go the extra mile to keep his weight and strength up. He knows it too … Thus the 6500 calorie “idea” that he apparently implemented himself.
We’ll take it after the Beltre at first BS.
Shitty tag by Seager. Probably a play that gets reviewed and reversed next year, even though the ball beat the runner by 10′. Yeah, there is going to be a healthy component of suck to implementing the replay reviews. Tags of players and bases are actually going to have to be made.
I wonder what the “unwritten rules” of requesting replays is going to be.
Yes!!!
Yeah! Sager!
I love Seager.
Sager? Hehe
Follow it up, Morales. We need them all.
Okay, follow it up, Smoak. We need them all.
Uh, not, msfan.
Come on, Danny!
Follow it up, Danny … Deny them all.
One.
Now that bastard Pierzynski.
I missed something – why is Saunders now in right?
What the hell is Raul doing in the outfield!!???
Why is Raul in the game?
Okay – blowers just covered it.
Good god, Raul in for defensive purposes.
WHAT THE FREAKING HELL?
The Czar!
Westy, Juneau … It’s been a pleasure. See you tomorrow.
Thank goodness that sub didn’t bite them in the butt.
Zduriencik’s roster construction is the gift that keeps on giving.
See ya later, alligators…
Maybe Chavez will need to hit the DL and they can call up Guti to “tap his desk” before going back on the DL.
He has been in Tacoma for a while now although his 20 day click only started ticking about a week ago. And his numbers are, well … Pretty bad, actually.
Maybe its time for Almonte. Screw the 11 day wait until September. We need OF’ers who can run down a ball.
And catch it
And throw it
And “clock” … Not “click.”
Great ending. Love beating the Rangers as much as I used to love seeing them beat the Angels.
In the seventh, Endy only advanced to second on a line drive single to right by Quintero. If he gets to third, which you’d think he would (certainly 2009 pre-Yunicrash Endy does), he scores on Miller’s double play (or who knows what happens, but it’s just better that he’s on third).
So when he came out in the ninth and was replaced by Ibanez in what has to be the weirdest defensive substitution in the history of the world, he must be pretty badly injured, right? Why hasn’t a word of this been discussed anywhere. I’ve looked at the ESPN story, here and on Lookout Landing and haven’t seen a thing. I looked at the News Tribune and not a word. I don’t look at the Times because I won’t pay for it.
Any clues?
Divish tweeted that Endy had a leg cramp, which led to the “defensive” substitution.
https://twitter.com/ryandivish/status/369238273324900352
But that doesn’t explain any earlier weirdness.