Game 99, White Sox at Mariners, Nerds
King Felix vs. Dylan Covey, 7:10pm
Happy Felix Day.
Last night, the M’s were able to overcome a great performance by James Shields thanks to a 10 strikeout gem from Wade LeBlanc. Among the many sentences I never thought I’d write this year, that one may take the cake.
Today’s game preview will be an abbreviated one, as I’m heading up for the Baseball Prospectus event before tonight’s game against the White Sox. Come say hi if you’re at the game.
The M’s, back at 20 games over, send the newly-healthy Félix to the hill against the Southsiders’ stopgap, former Rule 5 guy, Dylan Covey. Covey has been in the A’s system, but struggled with injury and control, but you can see what the Sox saw in him: armed with a 95 mph sinker and a solid slider, he offers the promise of Ks AND grounders, if it’s often obscured by a present reality smothered in walks and hard-hit balls.
As a righty sinker- slider guy, Covey struggles against lefties, and teams are putting more lefties in their line-ups against him. Should be a good match-up for Seager, Span, and the suddenly hot again Dee Gordon.
The other big news of the day is that Kyle Lewis has been promoted to AA Arkansas, though the circumstances aren’t great: Arkansas CF/M’s prospect Braden Bishop’s season’s over after a pitch broke his wrist.
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Ugh Felix.
Yikes, this Mariners lineup, so feeble.
It appears we have regressed to a few years ago whe we couldn’t hit anything. 1 hit ain’t gonna do it.
Oh boy. Dumpster fire.
At least Felix was able to get through an opposing team’s lineup once.