263 Responses to “Game 29, Mariners at Indians”

1. paulkersey on May 1st, 2008 9:50 pm

   This game should a be slump-breaker for Jack Cust. His line is already better, if no less bizarre than before: .211/.417/.338.

2. eponymous coward on May 1st, 2008 9:53 pm

   1 and freaking 8 in one run games!!!

   Go look at this year’s Pythag record. Compare and contrast to last year. Karma’s a bitch.

   Fine, Putz sucked through the first part of the 10th, but then he gets it together for two great strike outs to end the inning. So of course, take him out and put in Mark Lowe. Way to read the momentum of the game, Micky.

   You did notice how many pitches Putz threw that inning, right? And that his fastball velocity was down to 94 from his usual 96-98, and he couldn’t spot it (he was K’ing guys off of his split when he got a feel for it later in the inning)? Why would you think that the best way to handle someone looking a bit shaky off an injury is to REALLY overwork him?

3. paulkersey on May 1st, 2008 9:58 pm

   Why would you think that the best way to handle someone looking a bit shaky off an injury is to REALLY overwork him?

   That’s the Dusty Baker/Billy Martin approach.

4. jspektor on May 1st, 2008 10:09 pm

   boy – i really feel bad for the M’s … they really can’t get the job done. I hope Johnny Mac threw the post game food table or something…

5. joser on May 1st, 2008 10:41 pm

   The number of high leverage at-bats in the last couple of innings of this game was just craaaaazy.

6. joser on May 1st, 2008 10:53 pm

   Weird fact:
   That wasn’t just Sexson’s 300th HR, it was also his 100th in a Seattle uniform. Despite sucking for over a year, he reached 100 HRs in just 463 games, fewer games than any other Mariner. It took ARod 470 games to hit 100 homers.

   Also– outfield assist leaderboard, all players since 2001: Vlad 74, Beltran 73, Ichiro 70.

7. marinerfaninpdx on May 1st, 2008 11:10 pm

   Why would you think that the best way to handle someone looking a bit shaky off an injury is to REALLY overwork him?

   You’re rignt , they should have put in Mark Lowe. He’s so much more proven. Sorry, just don’t buy into the belief that playing a good pitcher more that one inning is OVERWORKING him just because he’s struggled. Yeah, he looked shakey, and then he buckled down and got results.

   Regardless, I’m sure we both them to win, I just get frustrated with managers using the revolving door of the bullpen so much.

8. JMHawkins on May 1st, 2008 11:32 pm

   Y’know, JJ kind of came out of nowhere

   He didn’t come out of nowhere. He learned to throw a really good splitter.

9. John D. on May 2nd, 2008 12:33 am

   Re: #s 121, 122, 124, 127

   William Bloomquist, Pinch Runner Extraordinaire…!

   Weren’t you folks listening when McLaren said that we’re going to run ourselves out of more innings than we did last
   year ?
   (Something like that.)

   BTW, according to MB, Willie’s CS was the mother of “productive outs.”

10. gwangung on May 2nd, 2008 8:46 am

    Sorry, just don’t buy into the belief that playing a good pitcher more that one inning is OVERWORKING him just because he’s struggled.

    However, I can certainly belive playing a good pitcher more than one inning is overworking him because he’s coming back from injury.

11. joser on May 2nd, 2008 10:48 am

    Hey, it could be worse. You could lead the entire game and then have your closer give up 3 runs in the 9th (in part due to misplays in the outfield) and end up losing 4-3, like the Cubs did against the Brewers. Not surprisingly, Lou didn’t take that well.

    Start to uncomfortable finish, manager Lou Piniella’s postgame news conference Thursday lasted all of one minute — depending on whether you count the string of profanities he uttered marching down the dreary hallway to the Cubs’ clubhouse.
    …
    A question focusing on whether Piniella thought about shifting slick-fielding center fielder Reed Johnson to left — in place of fresh-off-the-disabled-list Alfonso Soriano — when he inserted defensive sub Felix Pie in center during the eighth inning lit Piniella’s short fuse.

    ”You’re damn right I thought about it,” Piniella said, his voice rising. ”You think I’m stupid or something? God … darn it. Thought. All right. Thanks.”

    End of news conference.

    As Piniella stormed away, the profanities he contained while in front of the cameras came spilling out.

12. galaxieboi on May 2nd, 2008 1:41 pm

    Please add Mark Lowe to the long list of graduates of the “Seattle Mariner School of Being a Good Prospect who CAN NOT handle The Show!”

    When the season started I was thinking “man, i don’t think this team is ever gonna lose a game” now it’s more like “wow I wonder who is gonna blow the game tonight” or “I don’t think i should watch the game, I’ll just get pissed off”

    Some of you need to get a grip on baseball reality. If you really were THAT jacked up about the M’s at the beginning of the year then…oof.

    First off, Ryan Anderson never “made it at THE SHOW!!!!1111” because he was injured. EOF and Lowe are good pitchers. It’s baseball, man, not the NFL. These guys play 162 games. 162. There are going to be peaks and valleys. Mark Lowe is not going play terrible all year (barring an injury), just like Ichiro isn’t going to bat .260.

13. hark on May 2nd, 2008 1:43 pm

    [also off-topic]

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